Staff Data Scientist – Platform

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Define and take ownership of Fetch's overarching measurement framework based on MAU × ARPU.

• Create decision frameworks for pricing, incentives, and value trade-offs.

• Establish standards for evidence quality, uncertainty, and confidence in decision-making processes.

• Develop the causal reasoning model utilized across product, growth, marketing, and finance teams.

• Manage the scientific capability roadmap, which includes elasticity, value curves, marketing mix modeling, and forecasting.

• Design the semantic mart and metric logic that drives FetchGPT and scalable insights.

• Define standard metric definitions across experimentation platforms, dashboards, and diagnostics.

• Collaborate with Analytics Engineering and Data Platform to create foundational data assets.

• Set BI standards and remove redundant or conflicting dashboards.

• Act as the quality benchmark for impactful analytics and diagnostics.

• Review strategic analyses and validate high-stakes pricing and incentive tests.

• Ensure that observational and experimental results align seamlessly.

• Develop templates and interpretation guides to standardize analytical rigor.

• Oversee cross-company models for marketing mix, elasticity, incentive sensitivity, value expectation curves, strategic forecasting, and financial mechanisms supporting MAU × ARPU planning.

• Promote scientific maturity throughout the data science and analytics organization.

• Design upskilling programs focusing on statistics, causality, modeling, and storytelling.

• Author best-practice modeling libraries and corresponding documentation.

• Serve as a technical anchor and thought partner for senior individual contributors.

• Establish norms for rigorous, transparent, mechanism-driven insights.

• Apply advanced statistical and causal methods to address company-level challenges.

• Develop scalable, production-ready analytical frameworks in collaboration with engineering teams.

• Advocate for best practices in experimentation design, model validation, and reproducibility.

• Utilize Python, SQL, Snowflake, dbt, and experimentation platforms.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of experience in data science, economics, statistics, or applied research, including work at the Staff or Principal level on company and/or organization-wide issues.

• In-depth expertise in causal inference, experimental design, and observational analysis.

• Proven track record of owning high-stakes business decisions supported by causal evidence.

• Experience in defining and managing company-level measurement frameworks, canonical metrics, or strategic models used by senior leadership.

• Demonstrated ability to influence and support executive decision-making, including presenting trade-offs, uncertainties, and recommendations that directly affect strategy.

• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, capable of conveying complex causal and modeling concepts to non-technical senior audiences.

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative discipline.

• Practical experience with Python, SQL, Snowflake, dbt, and experimentation platforms.

• Preferred: advanced degree in a quantitative field.

• Preferred: experience with strategic models such as marketing mix models, elasticity estimates, incentive sensitivity, or long-range forecasts.

• Preferred: background in large-scale consumer products, marketplaces, ad-supported platforms, or incentive-driven systems.

• Preferred: experience in areas including ads ranking, relevance, retrieval, recommendation, personalization, ad measurement, attribution, incrementality, optimization, semantic layers, metric governance, or data contracts.

• Preferred: organization-wide scientific leadership experience without direct people management responsibilities.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity: We provide full-time employees with equity in Fetch, allowing everyone to benefit from the company’s growth.

• 401(k): Fetch matches your contributions dollar for dollar, up to 4% of your eligible pay.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans for all, including coverage for pets.

• Continuing Education: Fetch offers $10,000 annually for education reimbursement.

• Employee Resource Groups aimed at promoting a diverse and inclusive workplace through events, discussions, and advocacy.

• Flexible PTO, 9 paid holidays, and a week-long break at year-end.

• 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all employees, along with an additional 6 weeks of paid childbirth recovery leave for birthing parents, plus a flexible return-to-work schedule.

• A one-time $2,000 incentive for employees welcoming new family members to help with childcare and related expenses.

• Flexible work environment: fully remote work from anywhere in the US for US-based roles.

• Hardware and software provided for remote work.