Staff Data Scientist, Growth Forecasts - Remote & Equity

The Briefed; New York (NY); Remote; USD 183,000 - 247,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Catered breakfast and lunch

Language learning perks

Bi-annual company hackathons

Learning stipends

Flexible remote work options

Job summary

Duolingo is seeking a Staff Data Scientist on the Growth Data Science team to lead User Growth forecasting across its expanding product portfolio. You will partner with senior leaders to build quarterly forecasts, capturing dynamics of acquisition, retention, and monetization, and advance forecasting methodologies.

You will design scalable pipelines using SQL, Python, dbt, and Snowflake, and translate results into strategic narratives for executives. Remote or relocation to US hubs is supported.

Qualifications

• Industry Forecasting track record in complex, real-world settings.
• Advanced quantitative degree (MS/PhD) in a relevant field.
• Mastery of SQL and Python and the modern data stack.
• Strong ability to translate analyses into executive summaries.

Responsibilities

• Lead quarterly user growth forecasting models aligned with product and marketing strategies.
• Innovate statistical/time-series methods to improve accuracy.
• Distill models into executive-ready narratives for decision-making.
• Build and maintain robust forecasting pipelines using SQL, Python, dbt, Snowflake.

Skills

SQL

Python

Forecasting

Time-series

Statistical Modeling

Education

Master’s or PhD in Data Science/Statistics/Economics/Applied Mathematics/Operations Research

Tools

dbt

Snowflake

Pandas

Statsmodels

Prophet

PyTorch/Scikit-learn

Job description

Duolingo is seeking a Staff Data Scientist on the Growth Data Science team to lead User Growth forecasting across its expanding product portfolio. You will partner with senior leaders to build quarterly forecasts, capturing dynamics of acquisition, retention, and monetization, and advance forecasting methodologies.

You will design scalable pipelines using SQL, Python, dbt, and Snowflake, and translate results into strategic narratives for executives. Remote or relocation to US hubs is supported.