Staff Data Scientist

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $144.3k - $240.1k / year

⏰ Full Time

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📊 Data Scientist

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Quora

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2009

📱 Media

📚 Education

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 $85M Series D on 2017-04

Media • Education • Artificial Intelligence

Quora is a global knowledge sharing platform that enables over 400 million monthly unique users to connect and share insights on a wide range of topics. Its mission is to democratize access to human knowledge trapped in people's experiences or buried in books and papers. By providing a platform for learning, sharing, and community engagement, Quora aims to enhance the collective knowledge of the world. The company also offers Poe, a feature that allows users to ask questions and engage in back-and-forth conversations with artificial intelligence.

📋 Description

• Own ambiguous, high-impact problem spaces across product and business domains, from question framing, to devising and conducting the analysis, to developing and implementing solutions with cross-functional partners • Partner with cross-functional stakeholders and company leadership to shape product strategy and anticipate future challenges • Design and evaluate experiments to measure the impact of product and strategic changes • Analyze data from across the product to uncover root causes of metric movements • Develop tools, methodologies, and frameworks that help make both the data team and the company as a whole smarter about data • Multiply the impact of other data scientists through mentorship and instilling industry best practices across the team

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years work experience in an analytical or quantitative role, including 5+ as a Data Scientist or similar title, with a track record of success at a senior or staff level of scope and autonomy • Demonstrated ability to tackle difficult data questions that few others could have taken on, such as those requiring deep ownership of a product area and/or leading cross-functional and cross-team efforts • Expertise with statistical techniques (e.g. regression, hypothesis testing, causal inference) and their practical application • Experience mentoring other data scientists and raising team standards through best practices and process improvements • Effective communication skills, including the ability to translate ambiguous business needs into analytical questions and to explain technical results to executives and cross-functional partners • Extensive experience using a procedural programming language (e.g. Python, R) for data manipulation, modeling, and analysis; comfort working in a production codebase • Strong judgment that blends quantitative rigor with product intuition and common sense.

🏖️ Benefits

• medical/dental/vision coverage • equity refreshers • remote work reimbursement • paid time off • employee assistance programs