Principal Data Scientist, GTM Data Science

Boston, MA (On-site)

$182K/yr – $243K/yrSenior Level6+ years expFull time

Posted 3 days ago

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Job Summary

You will own the data science roadmap for growth and marketing, leading technical direction and production ML systems to acquire, retain, and grow subscribers while improving customer experiences.

  • Lead technical direction across growth, marketing, and personalization initiatives
  • Shape production systems and ML models for customer acquisition, retention, and lifecycle optimization

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • report to the Senior Director of Data Science and serve as a senior technical leader for growth, marketing, customer lifecycle, and personalization.
  • shape the strategy and production systems that help SimpliSafe acquire, retain, and grow subscriber relationships while improving the customer experience.

Requirements

  • Deep expertise in marketing science, customer personalization, lifecycle modeling, and applied machine learning.
  • Strong hands-on experience building and deploying machine learning solutions that have driven measurable business outcomes in production.
  • Experience developing models and decision systems for customer acquisition, conversion, retention, segmentation, personalization, lifetime value, and next-best-action use cases.
  • Strong understanding of experimentation, causal inference, incrementality measurement, and marketing effectiveness.
  • Significant experience with MLOps, model deployment, model monitoring, and distributed compute environments.
  • Proficiency with Python, SQL, Databricks, AWS SageMaker, Spark, MLflow, and modern cloud data platforms.
  • Experience designing scalable data and feature pipelines for production ML systems.
  • Ability to operate as a senior individual contributor: setting technical direction, influencing roadmaps, mentoring others, and driving execution across teams.
  • Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex modeling concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Typically 6+ years of experience in data science, machine learning, applied statistics, or a related field, or equivalent demonstrated expertise.

Preferred

  • Hands-on experience with advanced ML techniques such as Gradient Boosted Trees, neural networks, and transformer-based models.
  • Experience applying modern AI/ML techniques, including unstructured data or advanced signal integration, in production environments.
  • Experience designing or deploying agentic AI solutions that orchestrate models, tools, data, and workflows to automate or augment GTM decision-making.
  • Experience building recommendation, personalization, real-time decisioning, or next-best-action systems.
  • Experience in subscription, ecommerce, smart home, security, telecommunications, insurance, fintech, or other customer lifecycle-driven businesses.
  • Advanced degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Machine Learning, Economics, Applied Mathematics, Engineering, or a related quantitative field.

Benefits

  • A mission- and values-driven culture and a safe, inclusive environment where you can build, grow and thrive
  • A comprehensive total rewards package that supports your wellness and provides security for SimpliSafers and their families (For more information on our total rewards please click here )
  • Free SimpliSafe system and professional monitoring for your home.
  • Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that bring people together, give opportunities to network, mentor and develop, and advocate for change.
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SimpliSafe

3.4 Glassdoor

Being safe should be simple. SimpliSafe designs home security systems that are wireless, cellular and so user-friendly they can be set up by anyone in minutes. An ever-expanding arsenal of sensors and the SimpliSafe security camera, SimpliCam, provides all-encompassing protection while integrated apps make comprehensive system control possible from anywhere. But SimpliSafe is way more than its great products. It’s also seamless 24/7 professional monitoring, without the long-term contracts and sky-high prices of traditional alarm companies.Currently, SimpliSafe protects over 2 million Americans and that number is quickly rising. In 2014, the company was ranked in The Inc. 500 as one of the fastest growing private companies in the nation with a 3,076% 3-year growth rate. SimpliSafe is ushering in a new era — one where anyone anywhere can have a security system that’s not only simple, but also on the cutting edge.Want to be a part of a fast-paced environment in the heart of Boston? Check out our job openings at: https://simplisafe.com/careers

Founded in 2006
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
1.3K employees (82 in marketing)
58% recommend to a friend
63% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
2.3M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$1.8M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
30.4%
Direct
61.2%
Referral
5%
Social
1.7%
Paid
1.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~1.3K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
59 (4% of company)
Median Career Experience
16 years
Median Tenure
4.1 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
3

Funding

Total Funding
$387M
Last Raise
Debt Financing, 4 years ago

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