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Member of Data Staff (Data Scientist)

Perplexity· Data Science
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San Francisco$175k - $330kFull-timePosted 8mo ago

About the role

Data scientist role focused on turning product questions into decisions, collaborating across product, engineering, growth, design, and user research to define metrics, design experiments, and identify high-impact opportunities in an AI-native data environment.

Responsibilities

  • Develop product insights - analyze user behavior to inform product roadmap, accelerate adoption, and identify opportunities to improve the user experience.
  • Design and analyze experiments - form hypotheses, define success metrics, run A/B tests, interpret results, and turn findings into product recommendations.
  • Define the metrics that matter - build the metrics, guardrails, dashboards, and reporting workflows that help teams understand product and company health.
  • Partner across functions - work closely with engineering, product, growth, design, and user research to answer ambiguous questions and drive decisions.
  • Build reusable data assets - create tables, models, and documentation that make analysis faster, more consistent, and easier for humans and AI systems to use.
  • Use AI to scale data science - automate recurring analysis, build AI-assisted workflows, improve documentation, and turn one-off investigations into repeatable systems.
  • Tell the story clearly - communicate findings, assumptions, uncertainty, and recommendations in a way that helps teams make decisions.

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of experience as a data scientist or closely related role.
  • Strong product sense - you understand user behavior, product tradeoffs, and how to connect analysis to decisions.
  • SQL expertise - you can navigate a complex data warehouse on your own, reason about grain and joins, and debug data issues when something looks wrong.
  • Experimentation depth - you have significant experience designing, running, and analyzing A/B tests.
  • AI-native working style - you use LLMs and AI tools to move faster without outsourcing analytical judgment.
  • Metrics and dashboard experience - you've built useful reporting in tools such as Omni, Mode, Hex, Looker, or similar, and know how to turn metrics into better product decisions.
  • Comfort with ambiguity - you can take an open-ended question, structure it, execute the analysis, and make a clear recommendation.
  • End-to-end ownership - you take responsibility for the work from problem definition to stakeholder adoption.

Skills

Required:Data scienceSQL

Benefits

  • Full-time U.S. employees enjoy a comprehensive benefits program including equity, health, dental, vision, retirement, fitness, commuter and dependent care accounts, and more.
  • International Benefits - Full-time employees outside the U.S. enjoy a comprehensive benefits program tailored to their region of residence.
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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