Staff Data Scientist, Monetization
Hybrid (Redwood City, CA), Hybrid (New York, NY)$250k - $300kFull-timePosted 9mo ago
About the role
Staff Data Scientist to partner with product, engineering, and growth teams to scale and optimize monetization systems (subscriptions, advertising, and virtual currency economies) at Character.AI, enabling data-informed, user-centric monetization while shaping measurement, experimentation, and revenue growth.
Responsibilities
- Partner closely with product and engineering teams to drive data-informed monetization across subscriptions, advertising, and virtual currency economies.
- Define success metrics, lead experimentation, and translate complex behavioral and economic data into actionable insights.
- Build the data science foundations needed to support rapid product iteration and long-term growth.
Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience as a Data Scientist working on consumer-facing products, ideally in chat, social, UGC, or entertainment platforms
- Strong intuition for identifying the right questions and quickly driving to high-impact insights
- Proven ability to turn analysis into product decisions and shipped outcomes
- Comfortable working in fast-moving, experimental environments with incomplete data
- Experience building or scaling data science practices, including experimentation, metrics, and analytics tooling
Skills
Required:Monetization data scienceExperimentation and analytics
Benefits
- Top-notch health coverage for you & your family, with majority of the premium covered
- Generous 401(K) contribution
- Paid leave up to 20 weeks for new parents
- 4 weeks of PTO
- Daily in-office catering plus a monthly Doordash stipend
- Monthly wellness stipend
Last updated Jul 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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