Staff Data Scientist
$156,400–$195,500 year
On-site · Austin, Texas, United States
Job Summary
Staff Data Scientist on Udemy’s Consumer Product Analytics team, embedded with product, design, and engineering, focusing on the top of the funnel from discovery to purchase. Drive a high-velocity experimentation program, define KPIs and dashboards, perform causal and behavioral analyses to surface opportunities, translate findings into actionable narratives for senior leaders, and partner with Data Engineering to improve instrumentation, data models, and pipelines. Shape the longer-term analytics roadmap and OKRs, mentor junior data scientists, and raise the analytical bar across the team.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience
- 6+ years of hands-on Data Science experience (4+ with a PhD)
- expert-level SQL and Python
- experience with Databricks or a similar cloud data warehouse
- strong background in experimentation: A/B testing, power analysis, variance reduction
- experience as an embedded product or growth data scientist in a consumer business (top-of-funnel, growth, CRO, SEO, or marketing surfaces preferred)
- strong product sense and ability to translate questions into structured analyses
- data storytelling and visualization skills (Tableau a big plus)
- experience building automated data pipelines with tools like Airflow and dbt; familiarity with GitHub and CI/CD
- track record of operating at a Staff level with cross-functional leadership and metric/framework development
- ability to work autonomously while collaborating across global time zones
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