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Senior/Staff Data Scientist

Render· Finance & Operations Organization
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SF or Remote (US/Canada)$195k - $268kFull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Senior/Staff Data Scientist to join Render's Data team as a strategic analytics partner across product, growth, Go-to-Market, finance, and other functions. Focus areas include analytics, analytics engineering, machine learning, and experimentation to drive product, customer, and business insights, and to shape measurement frameworks and analytics standards at Render.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a strategic analytics partner. Work with leaders across Product, Engineering, Growth, Go-to-Market, Finance, and other teams to identify high-impact questions, frame decisions, and determine how success should be measured.
  • Define meaningful metrics and measurement frameworks. Develop KPIs and frameworks for acquisition, activation, adoption, engagement, retention, conversion, expansion, and customer outcomes.
  • Turn data into strategy. Surface patterns across users, customers, products, and business to identify opportunities and priorities.
  • Shape our approach to experimentation and evaluation. Design and analyze experiments, develop guardrail metrics, and choose appropriate analytical approaches.
  • Build measurement into how we work. Define instrumentation and measurement plans early for new products and initiatives.
  • Build trusted analytical foundations. Build and maintain dbt models and semantic/context layers with Analytics Engineering to transform data into reliable datasets.
  • Raise the bar for analytics. Establish best practices, improve data-driven decision-making, and mentor others on measurement, experimentation, and data literacy.
  • Help shape the future of analytics at Render. Explore AI-assisted tools to accelerate analytics while ensuring accuracy and context.

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of analytics experience with a track record of shaping strategy in complex or ambiguous problem spaces.
  • Strong business and product judgment to identify what needs to be understood and the right analytical approach.
  • Experience defining and using metrics across Product, Growth, Go-to-Market, Finance, or other domains.
  • Strong SQL skills with the ability to write complex, efficient queries and explore large datasets.
  • Experience with experimentation, statistical analysis, or rigorous evaluation methods.
  • Experience with modern analytics tools such as Metabase, Mixpanel, dbt, BigQuery, Segment, and Git.
  • Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams and senior leaders without direct authority; strong communication and storytelling skills.
  • Experience using AI-assisted coding or analytics tools (e.g., Codex, Cursor, Claude Code) to accelerate analysis.

Skills

Required:SQLExperimentation & statisticsMetrics & measurementCommunication & storytelling
Nice to have:AI-assisted coding/analytics tools

Benefits

  • 4 weeks of paid vacation.
  • 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave.
  • Long-term disability, life insurance, and 401K plans.
  • 100% employer-paid medical coverage and 99% employer-paid dental and vision for you and a dependent; FSAs and HSAs available.
  • Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health, and hobbies.
  • Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy.
  • Commuter benefits for Bay Area employees, and home office stipends for remote employees.
  • Continuous learning benefits and support.
Last updated Sep 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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