Staff Data Scientist, Ads
Mozilla· Core Services
Remotefull-timePosted 11mo ago
About the role
Senior data science role focusing on Mozilla's Ads business; partner across Product, Engineering, Sales, Finance, and leadership to identify high-impact opportunities, build measurement frameworks, and guide data-driven decisions while protecting user privacy.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a lead Data Science partner for Mozilla’s Ads business, working across Product, Engineering, Sales, Finance, and senior leadership to identify and prioritize high-impact opportunities
- Own complex analytical problems end-to-end, from framing the business question and determining the right approach to validating results, communicating recommendations, and driving follow-through
- Develop measurement frameworks for new and evolving advertising products, including success metrics, experimentation, instrumentation, and reporting
- Analyze advertising revenue and performance to identify key drivers, evaluate opportunities and trade-offs, and inform product and business decisions
- Translate complex findings, assumptions, and uncertainty into clear recommendations for audiences ranging from technical partners to senior executives
Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in data science, analytics, or applied quantitative roles, with demonstrated ownership of complex, business-critical analytical work
- Experience with digital advertising or a related monetization business, with an understanding of how product, user, advertiser, and revenue outcomes interact
- Strong technical foundation in Python and SQL, with experience applying statistical, experimental, forecasting, and analytical methods to real-world business problems
- Demonstrated ability to independently frame ambiguous problems, identify what matters, and drive work from an open-ended question through a clear recommendation
- Excellent analytical judgment—balancing rigor with pragmatism, pressure-testing important results, setting realistic expectations, and communicating uncertainty appropriately
- Proven ability to build trusted relationships and communicate complex or challenging findings to audiences ranging from technical partners to senior executives
- Commitment to Mozilla values: Welcoming differences; Being relationship-minded; Practicing responsible participation; Having grit
Skills
Required:Data sciencePythonSQLStatistics / ExperimentationCommunication
Benefits
- Generous performance-based bonus plans to all eligible employees - we share in our success as one team
- Rich medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Generous retirement contributions with 100% immediate vesting (regardless of whether you contribute)
- Quarterly all-company wellness days where everyone takes a pause together
- Country specific holidays plus a day off for your birthday
- One-time home office stipend
- Annual professional development budget
- Quarterly well-being stipend
- Considerable paid parental leave
- Employee referral bonus program
- Other benefits (life/AD&D, disability, EAP, etc. - varies by country)
Last updated Sep 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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