Senior Data Scientist — Strategic Analytics & Growth

Socket.dev; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

4 weeks of paid vacation

14 weeks of fully paid parental leave

Long-term disability, life insurance,

401K plans

100% employer-paid medical coverage +

Monthly lifestyle stipend

Monthly cell phone/internet subsidy

Commuter benefits in Bay Area

Continuous learning benefits

Job summary

Render is seeking a Senior/Staff Data Scientist to join the growing Data team as a strategic analytics partner across the product, customers, and business domains. You will translate ambiguous questions into rigorous analysis, define success metrics, and guide decisions with data.

You will collaborate with Product, Growth, Finance, and other teams, shaping measurement frameworks and automating instrumentation to ensure reliable evaluation of new initiatives and products.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of analytics experience across product, growth, or finance.
• Strong SQL skills and ability to analyze large datasets.
• Experience defining and using metrics across business domains.
• Experience with experimentation and statistical analysis.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a strategic analytics partner across Product, Engineering, Growth, Go-to-Market, Finance, and other teams.
• Define KPIs and measurement frameworks for acquisition, activation, adoption, engagement, retention, conversion, expansion, and revenue.
• Turn data into strategy by surfacing patterns and identifying opportunities.
• Design and analyze experiments and develop guardrail metrics for evaluating initiatives.
• Build instrumentation and measurement plans early to evaluate launched products and initiatives.
• Build trusted analytical foundations with dbt models and semantic layers.
• Raise the bar for analytics by sharing best practices and mentoring cross-functional partners.
• Explore AI-assisted tools to accelerate analytics while maintaining accuracy.

Skills

SQL

Analytics strategy

Experimentation

Cross-functional influence

Data storytelling

Communication

Tools

Metabase

Mixpanel

dbt

BigQuery

Segment

Git

Job description

Render is seeking a Senior/Staff Data Scientist to join the growing Data team as a strategic analytics partner across the product, customers, and business domains. You will translate ambiguous questions into rigorous analysis, define success metrics, and guide decisions with data.

You will collaborate with Product, Growth, Finance, and other teams, shaping measurement frameworks and automating instrumentation to ensure reliable evaluation of new initiatives and products.