Senior Growth Data Scientist & AI Systems Lead

LinkedIn; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 174,000 - 286,000; Full time

Job summary

LinkedIn seeks a Technical Lead for the Flagship Growth Data Science team to guide 15-20 Data Scientists in AI system insights. You will shape strategy, drive experiments, and lead improvements across diagnostics, evaluation, and productivity tools, influencing senior leadership decisions.

You will mentor team members, design solutions, and collaborate with cross-functional partners to translate data into strategic business actions and measurable product impact.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant work experience as a Data Scientist, Applied Scientist, or Data Engineer.
• Bachelor or higher degree in a quantitative discipline: statistics, operations research, computer science, informatics, engineering, applied mathematics, economics, etc.
• Experience influencing strategy through data-centric presentations.
• Experience in SQL, Python, and/or additional programming languages such as R and Scala.
• Experience in applied statistics and statistical modeling in at least one statistical software package.
• Experience running platform experiments and techniques like A/B testing

Responsibilities

• Act as a thought partner to senior leaders to prioritize/scope projects, provide recommendations, and evangelize data-driven business decisions in support of strategic goals.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior team members on solution design as well as lead code/design reviews.
• Drive org-wide impact by shaping product and business strategy through data-centric presentations.
• Work with a team of high-performing data science professionals, and cross-functional teams to identify business opportunities, optimize product performance or go to market strategy.
• Analyze large-scale structured and unstructured data; develop deep-dive analyses and machine learning models to drive member value and customer success.
• Design and develop core business metrics, create insightful automated dashboards and data visualization to track them and extract useful business and product insights.
• Develop and analyze experiments to test new product ideas or go to market strategies. Convert the results into actionable recommendations. Independently craft compelling stories; make logical recommendations; drive informed actions.
• Engage with technology partners to build, prototype and validate scalable tools/applications end to end (backend, frontend, data) for converting data to insights.

Education

Bachelor's or higher in quantitative discipline

Master's or PhD in Statistics/Data Science/Engineering/Math

Technical Leadership

Experimentation & Causal Inference

Data Science

Coding with AI

SQL

Python

R/Scala

A/B testing

Job description

LinkedIn seeks a Technical Lead for the Flagship Growth Data Science team to guide 15-20 Data Scientists in AI system insights. You will shape strategy, drive experiments, and lead improvements across diagnostics, evaluation, and productivity tools, influencing senior leadership decisions.

You will mentor team members, design solutions, and collaborate with cross-functional partners to translate data into strategic business actions and measurable product impact.