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Lead Data Scientist
Life360Remote, USA; Remote, Canada · Remote · full time · Lead / Staff / Principal
$175,000 – $218,000
Listed on Life360’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.
What this role is
Lead a data science team building production machine learning systems for Life360's monetization initiatives, including personalization, ads, and subscriptions across 100+ million users. This role suits experienced ML practitioners who can size opportunities, ship models to production, and mentor others while deeply engaging with causal inference and consumer product experimentation.
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What they ask for
Required
- Advanced degree in statistics or related field, or equivalent industry experience
- 6+ years building and shipping ML systems to production
- Significant Python proficiency with scikit-learn and PySpark
- Technical training and professional experience with causal inference techniques
- Experience with instrumentation, data transformations, and complex analyses
- Hands-on experimentation experience in consumer technology
- ML or experimentation work at a B2C technology company on revenue products
- Strong cross-functional communication and project leadership
- Hypothesis-driven problem solving with data support
- Prior experience with LLMs in data processing and analysis workflows
Nice to have
- Experience with digital advertising and ad tech infrastructure
- Knowledge of ranking and grouping algorithms for content feeds
- Contributions to production feature stores and model registries
- Experience with revenue reporting and forecasting analyses
- Subscription product or lifecycle marketing background
- Geospatial data or mobile location-based services experience