Staff Data Scientist, Growth & Strategy

Intuit, Inc.; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 194,000 - 263,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuit, Inc. is seeking a Staff Data Scientist for Emerging Growth Strategy & Intelligence to shape measurement and analytics for TurboTax’s growth initiatives.

You will partner with executives across Marketing, Product, Expert Services, and Operations to evaluate opportunities, design experiments, and translate learnings into strategic actions. You will lead the development of analytical frameworks, build executive-ready visualizations, and define metrics to guide investment decisions for

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data science, analytics, business intelligence, or a related field.
• Experience shaping strategy and influencing executive decision making through data.
• Experience supporting zero to one products, emerging business models, growth initiatives, or other highly ambiguous problem spaces.
• Strong expertise in experimentation, performance measurement, customer analytics, and causal or decision-oriented analysis.
• Demonstrated ability to define success metrics and learning frameworks for initiatives without established benchmarks.
• Strong business acumen across customer acquisition, engagement, retention, product strategy, and operations.
• Expertise in data visualization tools such as Tableau, Power BI, Looker, or similar platforms.
• Advanced SQL proficiency and experience using Python or R for analysis, modeling, and automation.
• Exceptional storytelling and communication skills, with the ability to craft clear and compelling business narratives from complex or incomplete data.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and deliver impact in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
• Ability to balance analytical rigor with speed, judgment, and pragmatic decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business and functional leaders to identify, evaluate, and prioritize new acquisition, engagement, and customer-growth opportunities. Translate customer behavior, market signals, and business performance into strategic recommendations.
• Develop measurement strategies for nascent products, programs, and business models where established benchmarks and metrics may not yet exist. Define leading indicators, learning milestones, success criteria, and pathways to scale.
• Shape analytical and experimentation roadmaps for emerging initiatives. Help teams move from broad hypotheses to measurable tests, interpret results in context, and determine the next best action.
• Build a deeper understanding of how customers engage with TurboTax before, during, and after tax season. Identify opportunities to strengthen acquisition, early commitment, year-round engagement, retention, and long-term customer value.
• Develop compelling visualizations, dashboards, and presentations that enable leadership to quickly understand performance, tradeoffs, and emerging opportunities. Bring simplicity and clarity to complex or incomplete analytical narratives.
• Create analytical frameworks that connect early customer signals to longer-term business outcomes. Establish consistent metrics, definitions, and decision criteria as new initiatives mature.
• Serve as a trusted data science partner to senior leaders across Marketing, Product, Expert Services, and Operations. Facilitate alignment through data and create a shared understanding of hypotheses, performance drivers, risks, and opportunities.
• Develop integrated views of the emerging-growth portfolio to help leaders understand momentum, required learning, and resource impact.
• Support business reviews, investment decisions, and planning cycles with analytical views that reveal progress, key learnings, customer response, and growth drivers.
• Champion best practices in experimentation, measurement, visualization, and decision science. Mentor other data scientists and analysts and contribute to a culture of rigorous, data-informed innovation.

Skills

Data Visualization

SQL

Python/R

Cross-functional Collaboration

Storytelling

Tools

Tableau

Power BI

Looker

Job description

Intuit, Inc. is seeking a Staff Data Scientist for Emerging Growth Strategy & Intelligence to shape measurement and analytics for TurboTax’s growth initiatives.

You will partner with executives across Marketing, Product, Expert Services, and Operations to evaluate opportunities, design experiments, and translate learnings into strategic actions. You will lead the development of analytical frameworks, build executive-ready visualizations, and define metrics to guide investment decisions for