Replit
Data Scientist, Growth
Foster City, CA · Senior · Full-time
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About the role
- You'll be one of the founding data scientist on Replit's Growth team, working with Product and Engineering leadership across acquisition, activation and recommender systems, and helping shape how Replit experiments.
- This role is for someone who doesn't wait to be asked.
- Help set the experimentation standards teams rely on for
Responsibilities
- This role is for someone who doesn't wait to be asked. You spot problems and opportunities before anyone else does, bring a strong point of view, and push it until it changes what we build.
- Own data science for major growth areas, partnering with PMs and engineers from problem framing and sizing through launch and readout
- Develop user and project segmentation from behavioral and content signals (e.g., embeddings and clustering) so growth analysis reflects what people are actually building
- Partner with Data Engineering on a shared metrics layer and experimentation tooling
- You spot problems and opportunities before anyone else does, bring a strong point of view, and push it until it changes what we build.
- You'll design the experiments and metrics that close that gap; for example, variance reduction (CUPED), sequential testing, and short-term proxy metrics validated against long-term retention and revenue
Nice to have
- Pricing, packaging, or monetization analysis for usage- or credit-based products
- International or mobile growth experience
- MS or PhD in statistics, economics, computer science, or another quantitative field
- Experience with multi-armed bandits or adaptive experimentation
- Familiarity with developer tools, AI products, or creator platforms
- Self-driving Company https://replit.com/blog/self-driving-company
- Replit Agent at Scale https://replit.com/blog/evaluating-and-improving-agent-at-scale
- AI Adoption https://replit.com/blog/ai-adoption
Skills
- 6+ years in data science, with significant time on growth or experimentation for high-scale prosumer, PLG, or self-serve products
- Experience establishing experimentation standards or platforms adopted by multiple teams
- Expert SQL and Python
- A track record of analysis that changed what a team shipped, and of influencing senior Product and Engineering leaders
Compensation
- 💰 Competitive Salary & Equity
Company info
- Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language.
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