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Discord

Staff Data Scientist, Causal Inference & Experimentation

San Francisco Bay Area · Staff+ · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$279k-$310kDetected 3 days ago
PythonSQLData ScienceLLMsStatisticsA/B TestingResearchExperimental DesignLeadership

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Sponsors this role90
Entry-level history0
PERM / green-card track0
Lottery odds (Level IV)94
Fits your clock70

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About the role

  • Our team directly impacts the strategy and roadmaps that improve Discord for its more than 90M daily active users!
  • If helping make Discord an even better place to hang out with your friends sounds like an exciting challenge - we'd love to chat with you!
  • San Francisco Bay Area: Candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties).

Responsibilities

  • Provide statistical expertise, ensuring that experimentation methodologies and frameworks are sound and aligned with best practices in causal inference and experimental design.
  • Partner closely with engineering and product to improve the reliability, scalability, and adoption of experimentation across Discord - including modern AI/LLM tooling where it can accelerate rigor and speed.
  • Lead and conduct original causal inference research on high-priority Discord questions, in partnership with the wider Data Science team.
  • Experience autonomously leading cross-functional projects and influencing cross-functional partners.

Compensation

  • The US base salary range for this full-time position is $279,000 to $310,000 + equity + benefits.

Benefits

  • Formulate the vision and set the roadmap for the future of the Experimentation Platform, in partnership with engineering, product, and data science stakeholders.
  • Lead initiatives to educate and train cross-functional teams - including workshops, training sessions, and educational materials - on experimentation design, statistical methodology, and causal inference.
  • Strong passion for education, with a track record of communicating complex statistical and experimental design concepts to technical and non-technical audiences and fostering a culture of data literacy.
  • Comfort using AI/LLM tools to accelerate causal inference workflows, automate repetitive analysis, or scale experimentation education content.

Company info

  • Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, and we are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games.
  • We are a small and quickly growing team; you will be presented with significant leadership opportunities as we evolve.
  • Engage directly with experimentation customers - data scientists, product managers, and engineers - to ensure the platform enables fast, reliable, data-driven decisions.
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