Staff Data Scientist – Rewarded Apps

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Establish the analytical and scientific direction for Play, pinpointing high-impact opportunities in revenue, margin, engagement, retention, user experience, and advertiser performance.

• Act as a senior strategic partner to leaders in business, Product, Marketing, and Engineering.

• Determine the inquiries analytics should address and convert ambiguous challenges into structured analytical methodologies.

• Gain a comprehensive understanding of the Play P&L and link user behavior and product performance to revenue, margin, and marketplace results.

• Spearhead advanced analytics and data science projects focused on engagement, retention, monetization, personalization, segmentation, and marketplace dynamics.

• Create predictive and machine learning models to uncover behavioral patterns, predict outcomes, prioritize opportunities, and guide strategy.

• Design experimentation and measurement strategies utilizing A/B testing, causal inference, quasi-experimental methods, and observational analysis.

• Build scalable analytical assets, feature pipelines, modeling frameworks, and reliable measurement systems using Python and SQL.

• Collaborate with Product and Engineering to implement models, scoring frameworks, and analytical outputs.

• Simplify complex findings into actionable recommendations for senior and executive stakeholders.

• Guide analysts and data scientists, review impactful analyses, and establish best practices for modeling, experimentation, documentation, reusable code, and data storytelling.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of experience in data science, analytics, quantitative strategy, or a related field, with ownership of complex product or business domains.

• Advanced skills in Python and SQL, with a background in creating reusable analytical and modeling workflows.

• Experience in developing, assessing, and operationalizing machine learning and predictive models, including feature engineering and translating model outputs into business strategies.

• Strong grounding in statistics, experimental design, power analysis, metric selection, segmentation, and causal inference.

• Familiarity with causal inference techniques such as difference-in-differences, matching, synthetic controls, or related methodologies.

• Experience in creating models associated with personalization, propensity, recommendations, forecasting, retention, or lifetime value.

• Proven capability to independently structure and resolve ambiguous, high-impact issues while balancing analytical rigor with business urgency.

• A history of leveraging analytics to achieve measurable enhancements in revenue, engagement, retention, product performance, or operational efficiency.

• Established ability to influence senior stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Marketing, and business teams without direct authority.

• Experience mentoring analysts or data scientists and elevating the quality of work across a larger team.

• Outstanding communication and data storytelling skills, including the ability to articulate complex analytical concepts to non-technical audiences.

• This role can be performed remotely within the United States or any Canadian province excluding Quebec, pending appropriate work authorization.

• Preferred: experience in consumer technology, gaming, marketplaces, rewards, loyalty, or another high-frequency digital product.

• Preferred: experience with dbt, Git/GitHub, Spark, or similar technologies.

• Preferred: experience with businesses where user engagement, monetization, incentives, and marketplace economics are interconnected.

• Preferred: experience integrating advanced analytics with product and commercial strategy.

🏝️ Benefits

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

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

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

• Up to $10,000 annually in education reimbursement.

• Employee Resource Groups designed to promote a diverse and inclusive workplace through events, dialogue, and advocacy.

• Flexible paid time off (PTO).

• 9 paid holidays along with a week-long year-end break (holidays may vary for Canada-based roles).

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

• One-time $2,000 Calvin Care Cash incentive for employees welcoming new family members.

• Flexible work environment.

• Hardware and software provisions for remote work (applicable for most roles).