Staff Data Scientist, Growth & Experimentation

Alpaca; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary & Stock Options

Home-Office setup (USD 500)

Brex Card stipend (USD 150/mo)

Job summary

Alpaca, a US-headquartered, global leader in brokerage infrastructure, seeks a Staff Data Scientist, Growth to own growth metrics and analytics across the customer journey. You will set the North Star, define experiments, build the metrics platform, and collaborate with Product, Marketing, Sales, and Engineering to move the business forward.

You will drive causal analyses, retention and monetization models, and enable self-serve insights for teams company-wide, with a strong emphasis on

Qualifications

• Proven expertise in growth and/or product analytics and data science with strong statistical analysis and experimentation.
• Hands-on experience with growth/funnel analytics: acquisition, activation, retention/churn, LTV/CAC, cohort analysis and lifecycle/CRM analytics.
• Experience designing and building experimentation tooling and frameworks for trustworthy A/B tests and causal-inference / incrementality analyses.
• Familiarity with marketing measurement such as attribution, incrementality, or marketing-mix modeling is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own the growth funnel end-to-end across acquisition, activation, retention, referral and monetization.
• Design and run the growth experimentation engine with A/B tests, causal/incrementality studies, and self-serve tooling integration.
• Model growth through retention/cohort analyses, churn and LTV models, CAC/payback and unit-economics views.
• Define growth metrics and build scalable governance with analytics engineering for dashboards used daily.
• Partner with Product, Marketing, Sales, Engineering and Finance to shape strategy and roadmap.
• Turn data into narratives with compelling visualizations for leadership.
• Enable self-serve analytics and empower teams to access insights through the semantic layer.
• Mentor junior data scientists and analysts and foster a data-informed growth culture.

Job description

Alpaca, a US-headquartered, global leader in brokerage infrastructure, seeks a Staff Data Scientist, Growth to own growth metrics and analytics across the customer journey. You will set the North Star, define experiments, build the metrics platform, and collaborate with Product, Marketing, Sales, and Engineering to move the business forward.

You will drive causal analyses, retention and monetization models, and enable self-serve insights for teams company-wide, with a strong emphasis on