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Senior Data Scientist, Feed Relevance

New York · Senior

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PythoniOSAndroidSQLMachine LearningData EngineeringData ScienceStatisticsA/B TestingLeadership

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About the role

  • You'll conduct exploratory analyses to surface data-backed hypotheses about feed health, content mix, engagement patterns, and discovery conversion - and translate those into actionable ranking improvements.
  • You'll contribute to the technical and collaborative direction of the data science team.

Responsibilities

  • You'll own the analytics foundation for Patreon's feed - building and maintaining the trustworthy metrics infrastructure that powers dashboards, experiment analysis, ML training data, and leadership reporting.
  • You'll design and analyze ranking experiments across Home Feed, Membership Feed, Post Page Recs, and Niches, working closely with ML Engineers to evaluate relevance changes and new ranking signals.
  • Our cross-functional pod includes ML Engineers, Product Managers, Backend Engineers, Client Engineers, and Data Scientists working together to improve content discovery, deepen fan engagement, and drive creator monetization.
  • Build with Craft | We sign our name to every deliverable, just like the creators we serve.
  • Make it Happen | We don't quit. We learn and deliver.

Requirements

  • Experience working on a content feed, ranking system, or recommendation platform - including familiarity with retrieval, scoring, and tradeoffs involved in optimizing for multiple objectives.
  • Deep expertise in A/B testing on ranking or recommendation changes, with a strong statistical inference foundation.
  • Strong SQL proficiency and experience using Python or R for statistical analysis.
  • Experience navigating shifting priorities and systems.
  • Experience making tradeoffs between speed and accuracy when analytical direction is unclear.
  • Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Economics, Engineering, Mathematics, a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • We hire talented and passionate people from different backgrounds because workplace diversity and inclusion is critical to our ability to serve creators worldwide.

Compensation

  • Patreon offers a competitive benefits package including and not limited to salary, equity plans, healthcare, flexible time off, company holidays and recharge days, commuter benefits, lifestyle stipends, learning and development stipends, pa

Benefits

  • You'll develop feed health and engagement dashboards with drill-downs by surface, user segment, platform (iOS vs.

Company info

  • The Relevance team owns feed ranking and recommendations across Patreon's core surfaces - Home Feed, Membership Feed, Post Page Recommendations, and Niches.
  • We're building the systems that decide what content fans see and in what order, with the goal of making every fan's experience on Patreon feel personally relevant.
  • We're at an exciting inflection point:
  • our ranking and recommendation systems are being built largely from scratch, which means you'll have outsized influence on the technical direction and measurement frameworks that shape how millions of fans discover creators.
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