Sr. Data Scientist, Performance Marketing

San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)

$140K/yr – $288K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 4 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the measurement and optimization loop for paid marketing, turning models and experiments into actionable guidance for MAU growth, LTV and cross-functional impact.

  • Growth measurement: evolve geo-testing and incrementality frameworks to quantify paid impact across markets.
  • Modeling & analytics: build propensity, forecasting and LTV models and maintain budgeting and retention models.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Deep strategic analysis to answer growth marketing ecosystem questions such as how to drive monthly active users from paid performance marketing, how to quantify the effect of paid performance marketing in new markets, how to drive user engagement and user LTV (lifetime value) from performance marketing.
  • Evolve our existing systems like geo-testing frameworks and other incrementality testing frameworks.
  • Build and deploy statistical and machine learning models such as propensity, forecasting, and lifetime value (LTV) models—to optimize marketing strategies and enhance audience targeting.
  • Develop new statistical models as well as maintain/improve existing models like user lifetime value models, budgeting models, long term user retention models etc.
  • Collaborate on a wide array of product and business problems with a diverse set of cross-functional partners across Product, Engineering, Analytics, Marketing, Data Engineering and others.
  • Evolve experimentation capabilities and tools to evaluate the business impact of performance marketing investment. Advise on experimentation best practices; identifying flaws in experiment practices and results; building tools for experiment analysis; etc.
  • Identify the right measures of success for teams and help them track those metrics. Own the full lifecycle of those metrics from logging requirements, metrics definition, prototype pipelines, and improvements.
  • Translate complex analytical findings into clear, actionable insights and strategic recommendations for both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior leadership.
  • Write clear, actionable analyses that help teams uncover opportunities and identify areas of improvement to our existing strategies.
  • Design, maintain, and promote dashboards and automated reporting tools to empower stakeholders with self-serve, data-driven decision-making capabilities. Build and optimize ETL data pipelines to automate reporting, support deep dive analysis and feature engineering for analytical models.
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Founded in 2010
San Francisco, California, USA
13K employees (2,418 in marketing)
75% recommend to a friend
74% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.4B
Traffic Source Mix
Search
34.6%
Direct
62.9%
Referral
1.5%
Social
0.7%
Paid
0.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~13.1K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
1,315 (10% of company)
Median Career Experience
14 years
Median Tenure
3.8 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
8

Funding

Total Funding
$2.5B
Last Raise
$1B
Post IPO Debt, 13 days ago

Funding History

  • Mar 2026
    Post IPO Debt • $1B
  • Jul 2022
    Post IPO Equity
  • Jan 2020
    Post IPO Equity

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