Staff & Principal Product Data Scientist — AI-Driven Strategy

Slack; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 173,000 - 345,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is hiring Staff & Principal Product Data Scientists to build a scalable data ecosystem that informs product decisions and strategy. You will partner with PDE and GTM teams to shape what we build and how we measure success, while advancing Slack's agentic data delivery platform.

Join a collaborative, ambitious team that values curiosity, boldness, and rigorous evidence-based decision making, with opportunities to influence product direction at scale.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product data science experience in tech industries.
• A consistent record of using data to drive product teams to achieve ambitious goals and influence company-level outcomes.
• Advanced proficiency in SQL and at least one programming language for data science, such as Python, R, or Scala. Knowledge of workflow orchestration tools like Apache Airflow is highly desirable.
• Strong foundation in statistics, experimentation, causal inference, ML, and analytical problem-solving.
• Experience working with large-scale data technologies such as Spark, Presto, Hive, Hadoop, or similar distributed data platforms.
• Proven ability to communicate complex analytical findings clearly to executive and cross-functional audiences.
• A related degree required. A BS degree in a quantitative field (e.g., Computer Science, Economics, Physics); an advanced degree (MS, PhD) is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Establish strong partnerships with product stakeholders to identify opportunities, prioritize roadmaps, and implement execution excellence.
• Evangelize evidence-based decision-making by partnering with key leaders and driving the general accessibility of data and insights.
• Perform evidence-based evaluations of the most important drivers for increased adoption of Slack product capabilities.
• Build key success metric frameworks and self-serve reporting to monitor Slack product health.
• Prototype foundational data models and partner with Data Engineering functions to elevate these into canonical sources of truth.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of Slack's agentic data delivery platform.
• Quantitatively identify potential product opportunities to improve user experiences and unlock business value.
• Partner closely with Product Researchers to align roadmaps and collaborate on projects to answer complex questions.

Skills

Product data science

SQL

Python/R/Scala

Airflow

Statistics / experiments

Spark / Big data

Communication to executives

Education

BS in quantitative field (e.g., CS, Economics, Physics)

MS or PhD preferred

Tools

Apache Airflow

Spark

Presto

Hive

Hadoop

Job description

Salesforce is hiring Staff & Principal Product Data Scientists to build a scalable data ecosystem that informs product decisions and strategy. You will partner with PDE and GTM teams to shape what we build and how we measure success, while advancing Slack's agentic data delivery platform.

Join a collaborative, ambitious team that values curiosity, boldness, and rigorous evidence-based decision making, with opportunities to influence product direction at scale.