Senior Staff Data Scientist - Remote Impact & Strategy

Quora; United States; Remote; USD 164,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work reimbursement

Equity

Paid time off

Health benefits

Job summary

Quora is a remote-first company seeking a senior data scientist to join the Data Team. You will work across product areas, including homepage personalization, growth, and monetization, to design experiments and build insights that drive product decisions.

You will collaborate with product managers, engineers, and designers, create visualizations, and mentor teammates while maintaining rigorous analytics and impact-oriented work culture. Remote-friendly with global opportunities.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in analytical roles, including 5+ as a Data Scientist or similar, with senior level scope and autonomy.
• Proven ability to tackle difficult data questions and lead cross-functional efforts.
• Expertise with statistical techniques and their practical application.
• Experience mentoring other data scientists and raising team standards.

Responsibilities

• Own high-impact problem spaces across product and business domains, from framing to analysis to solutions with cross-functional partners
• Partner with stakeholders and leadership to shape product strategy and anticipate challenges
• Design and evaluate experiments to measure impact of product and strategic changes
• Analyze data to uncover root causes of metric movements
• Develop tools, methodologies, and frameworks to improve data maturity across the company
• Mentor other data scientists and promote best practices across the team

Skills

Statistical techniques

Python

R

Data visualization

Experiment design

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentoring

Executive communication

Tools

Presto/Trino

SQL

Jupyter

Job description

Quora is a remote-first company seeking a senior data scientist to join the Data Team. You will work across product areas, including homepage personalization, growth, and monetization, to design experiments and build insights that drive product decisions.

You will collaborate with product managers, engineers, and designers, create visualizations, and mentor teammates while maintaining rigorous analytics and impact-oriented work culture. Remote-friendly with global opportunities.