Tonal
Senior Data Scientist
San Francisco, CA · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 183 days ago
PythonSQLDatabricksCI/CDMachine Learningscikit-learndbtData ScienceData VisualizationLLMsAccessibilityProduct Strategy
About the role
- This Senior Data Scientist will drive causal and machine learning-based analyses to measure the impact of product features on user behavior, engagement, and business outcomes, translating results into clear, actionable recommendations. The role partners closely with product, analytics engineering, and fellow data scientists to build in-house causal inference tools, define KPIs, build production-ready analytical workflows, and deliver high-quality, governed visualizations. Success in this role requires strong statistical judgment, experience with product-driven ML, and a focus on delivering insights that are both trustworthy and immediately usable by cross-functional stakeholders
- Causal Inference
- This Senior Data Scientist will drive causal and machine learning-based analyses to measure the impact of product features on user behavior, engagement, and business outcomes, translating results into clear, actionable recommendations.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and productionalize statistically rigorous causal analyses to quantify the impact of product features on user behaviors, engagement metrics, and downstream business outcomes
- Develop and maintain causal frameworks that link product interventions to behavioral change, engagement shifts, and business performance
- Validate causal findings through robustness checks, sensitivity analyses, and clear articulation of assumptions and limitations
- Develop analytical notebooks and workflows that are reproducible, scalable, and suitable for deployment in production environments
- Partner with product and cross-functional stakeholders to define feature-level engagement and efficacy KPIs aligned with business objectives
- Implement testing, documentation, and versioning practices to ensure KPI definitions are reliable, discoverable, and consistently interpreted
- Maintain metric documentation and metadata to support self-service analytics and cross-functional consumption
- Design and deliver high-quality visualizations in Looker and Databricks that clearly communicate analytical and ML-driven insights without requiring supplemental explanation
- Support visualization governance by implementing CI/CD workflows, validation checks, and approval processes to ensure production dashboards meet quality and consistency standards prior to release
Requirements
- Strong track record of creating clear, decision-oriented visualizations in tools such as Looker and Databricks that communicate insights unambiguously to cross-functional stakeholders
- 3-5+ years of experience
- Strong statistical experience in causal inference methods like Difference in Difference, propensity score matching, regression discontinuity analysis, and randomized control trials to help link product changes to business outcomes
- Applied experience building and evaluating machine learning models for prediction, segmentation, or uplift in a product or business context
- Ability to develop reproducible, scalable analytical notebooks and workflows that transition effectively from development to production environments
- Experience partnering with product teams to define feature-level KPIs and building robust, well-documented dbt models to expose those metrics across analytics layers
Skills
- dbt, databricks, statsmodels, scipy, scikit-learn, causalml, prophet
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