# Staff Data Scientist

Hiring organization: [Gofundme](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/gofundme)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/760f886e-677b-4766-a4a8-77bcbf660751

Listed on Gofundme's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Staff
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Salary: 179500 – 269500 USD per year

## Summary

GoFundMe seeks a Staff Data Scientist to lead data-driven initiatives across marketing, growth, and product strategy, helping the organization optimize audience targeting, retention, and business outcomes. This senior role suits experienced practitioners who combine deep statistical expertise with the ability to mentor others and communicate complex findings to executives.

_Our summary, not Gofundme's wording._

## Skills named

A/B Testing, Amplitude, Apache Airflow, Databricks, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Git, Google Analytics, Looker, Machine Learning, Optimizely CMS, Python, Snowflake, SQL, Tableau

## Required

- 8+ years leading data science, applied statistics, or machine learning projects with measurable business impact
- Master's degree or Ph.D. in a quantitative field, or bachelor's degree plus equivalent applied experience
- Experience with marketing, growth, marketplace, and/or product optimization problems
- Strong statistical inference and causal inference knowledge
- Experience applying machine learning to targeting, personalization, segmentation, or lifecycle optimization
- Advanced proficiency with SQL and Python
- Ability to define technical strategy and raise quality across teams
- Strong business judgment and stakeholder management
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, including to executives
- Experience mentoring data scientists or analysts

## Nice to have

- Experience with marketing measurement methods including media mix modeling, multi-touch attribution, channel incrementality, forecasting, or budget allocation
- Experience with analytics tools such as Amplitude, Google Analytics, Optimizely, or GrowthBook
- Familiarity with modern data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, dbt, Airflow, Git, Looker, or Tableau
- Experience operationalizing AI or ML workflows with engineering partners
- Experience with adaptive experimentation including frequentist A/B tests, multi-arm bandits, or contextual bandits
- Experience using AI-assisted tools to accelerate analysis and coding

Apply on Gofundme's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/gofundme/jobs/8047325