Staff Product Data Scientist — Strategy, Metrics & Data Platform

Slack; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 173,000 - 314,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is hiring for Staff & Principal Product Data Scientists to build a world-class data ecosystem supporting data-driven product decisions. You’ll partner with PDE and GTM teams to shape product strategy and help develop Slack’s agentic data delivery platform.

You will work across data engineering, analytics, and product teams to enable self-serve insights, measure product health, and identify opportunities that improve user experiences and business value.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product data science experience in tech industries.
• Proven track record using data to drive product decisions and outcomes.
• Advanced proficiency in SQL and at least one programming language for data science (Python, R, or Scala).
• Strong foundation in statistics, experimentation, causal inference, ML, and analytical problem-solving.
• Experience with large-scale data technologies (Spark, Presto, Hive, Hadoop).
• Excellent communication of analytical findings to executives and cross-functional teams.
• BS in a quantitative field; MS/PhD a plus.

Responsibilities

• Establish partnerships with product stakeholders to identify opportunities and roadmaps.
• Drive evidence-based decision-making and accessibility of data and insights.
• Evaluate drivers of increased adoption of Slack product capabilities.
• Build key success metric frameworks and self-serve reporting.
• Design foundational data models with Data Engineering to create canonical sources of truth.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of Slack's agentic data delivery platform.
• Identify product opportunities to improve user experiences and business value.
• Collaborate with Product Researchers to align roadmaps.

Skills

Product data science

Data-driven decisions

SQL

Python

R

Scala

Apache Airflow

Statistics & experimentation

ML & causal inference

Big data platforms

Education

BS in quantitative field

MS/PhD preferred

Tools

Python

R

Scala

Apache Airflow

Spark

Presto

Hive

Hadoop

Job description

Salesforce is hiring for Staff & Principal Product Data Scientists to build a world-class data ecosystem supporting data-driven product decisions. You’ll partner with PDE and GTM teams to shape product strategy and help develop Slack’s agentic data delivery platform.

You will work across data engineering, analytics, and product teams to enable self-serve insights, measure product health, and identify opportunities that improve user experiences and business value.