Senior/Staff Data Scientist

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States, +2 more locations.

📋 Description

• Act as a strategic analytics advisor to leaders and cross-functional teams within Product, Engineering, Growth, Go-to-Market, Finance, and other departments.

• Identify key impactful questions, frame decision-making processes, and ascertain how success should be evaluated.

• Establish KPIs and measurement frameworks for acquisition, activation, adoption, engagement, retention, conversion, expansion, and customer outcomes.

• Reveal patterns across users, customers, products, and the overall business landscape.

• Spot opportunities, diagnose obstacles, and assist in defining investments and priorities.

• Design and evaluate experiments, develop guardrail metrics, and assess initiatives.

• Specify instrumentation and measurement strategies for new products, programs, and initiatives.

• Construct and manage dbt models, semantic layers, and context layers in collaboration with Analytics Engineering.

• Convert behavioral and business data into dependable datasets that support decision-making throughout Render.

• Establish analytical best practices and enhance data-driven decision-making processes.

• Guide scientists and cross-functional partners on measurement, experimentation, and data literacy.

• Investigate AI-assisted tools to expedite analytics and enhance accessibility, while ensuring precision and analytical integrity.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of analytics experience.

• Proven history of shaping strategy and influencing decisions in complex or ambiguous problem environments.

• Strong judgment in business and product matters.

• Experience in defining and utilizing metrics within Product, Growth, Go-to-Market, Finance, or other business areas.

• Proficient SQL skills, including crafting complex and efficient SQL queries and independently navigating large datasets.

• Experience applying experimentation, statistical analysis, or other rigorous evaluation methods to gauge impact.

• Familiarity with modern analytics tools such as Metabase, Mixpanel, dbt, BigQuery, Segment, and Git.

• Track record of influencing cross-functional teams and senior leadership without direct authority.

• Exceptional communication skills, including the ability to convey technical concepts to non-technical audiences.

• Experience with AI-assisted coding or analytics tools like Codex, Cursor, or Claude Code.

• Expertise in statistical methods beyond conventional A/B testing is a plus.

• Experience with developer-focused, product-led, sales-led, or usage-based businesses is a plus.

• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure, PaaS, developer tooling, or other technically intricate products is a plus.

• Experience analyzing multi-product or multi-segment businesses is a plus.

• Generally not eligible for new visa sponsorship; existing visa transfers may be sponsored at Render's discretion, subject to business authorization.

• Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States of America.

🏝️ Benefits

• 4 weeks of paid vacation.

• 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents to bond with a newborn, adopted, or fostered child.

• Long-term disability insurance.

• Life insurance.

• 401K plans.

• 100% employer-paid medical coverage for you and a dependent.

• 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage for you and a dependent.

• FSAs and HSAs are available.

• Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health and therapy, hobbies, etc.

• Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy.

• Commuter benefits for Renders in the Bay Area.

• Home office stipends for remote Renders.

• Continuous learning benefits and related support.

• Equity offered.