Staff Data Scientist: Growth Analytics & Strategy

Salesforce; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 173,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Staff Data Scientist to join the Business Data Science team. You will leverage data to drive growth and decision-making across the company, collaborating with Data Engineering, Go-To-Market, and PDE teams, and presenting findings to senior leadership.

The role emphasizes strong communication, independent work, a growth mindset, and impact-oriented analytics. Experience with experiments and causal inference is valued.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years of professional quantitative analysis experience.
• BS in a quantitative field; MS/PhD is a strong plus.
• Strong SQL and at least one data science programming language (Python/R/Scala).

Responsibilities

• Partner with Growth teams to understand drivers and accelerate growth.
• Synthesize insights and present to senior leadership.
• Develop frameworks to identify patterns in customer behavior.
• Build self-service tools and reports to drive awareness of key metrics.
• Collaborate with Data Engineering to power data models for analyses.

Skills

5+ years of quantitative analysis

Effective communicator

Growth mindset

Education

BS in a quantitative field (CS, Economics, Physics)

Tools

SQL

Python

R

Scala

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a Staff Data Scientist to join the Business Data Science team. You will leverage data to drive growth and decision-making across the company, collaborating with Data Engineering, Go-To-Market, and PDE teams, and presenting findings to senior leadership.

The role emphasizes strong communication, independent work, a growth mindset, and impact-oriented analytics. Experience with experiments and causal inference is valued.