Senior Growth Data Scientist — Growth Analytics & Experiments

Alpaca; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary & Stock Options

New Hire Home-Office Setup: USD $500

Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month

Job summary

Alpaca seeks a Staff Data Scientist, Growth to define and own growth metrics across the customer journey—from acquisition to monetization. You will set the technical direction, build the experimentation and metrics platform, and partner with Product, Marketing, Sales, and Engineering to drive growth decisions.

This greenfield charter requires strong intuition for funnels, cohorts, and causal inference. You will lead the formation of growth analytics practices, deliver dashboards, and enable

Qualifications

• Proven expertise in growth analytics and data science.
• Experience with growth/funnel analytics (acquisition, activation, retention, monetization).
• Experience designing experimentation tooling for trustworthy A/B tests and causal/incrementality analyses.
• Familiarity with marketing measurement, attribution, or marketing-mix modeling.

Responsibilities

• Own the growth funnel end-to-end across acquisition, activation, retention, referral, and monetization.
• Run the growth experimentation engine with A/B tests and causal studies, build guardrails and self-serve tooling.
• Model retention, churn, LTV, CAC/payback, and forecasts of core growth metrics.
• Define growth metrics and North Star, partner with analytics engineering to build scalable metrics and dashboards.
• Embed cross-functionally with Product, Marketing, Sales, Engineering, and Finance to shape strategy and roadmaps.
• Turn data into narratives with compelling visualizations for leadership.
• Enable self-serve analytics and advance semantic-layer powered insights.
• Mentor data scientists and Analysts to foster a data-informed growth culture.

Skills

Growth analytics

Experimentation

Data science

A/B testing

Causal inference

Job description

Alpaca seeks a Staff Data Scientist, Growth to define and own growth metrics across the customer journey—from acquisition to monetization. You will set the technical direction, build the experimentation and metrics platform, and partner with Product, Marketing, Sales, and Engineering to drive growth decisions.

This greenfield charter requires strong intuition for funnels, cohorts, and causal inference. You will lead the formation of growth analytics practices, deliver dashboards, and enable