# Staff Data Scientist, Monetization

**Company:** [character.ai](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/characterai)
**Location:** Redwood City, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** Data Science
**Salary:** $180k – $300k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Experimentation, Metrics, Analytics, A/B Testing, SQL, Python, Statistical Analysis, Monetization, Subscriptions, Advertising, Virtual Economies, Behavioral Analysis, Pricing Optimization, Data Pipelines, Tableau
**Posted:** 2026-04-30

> Staff Data Scientist partners with product and engineering to optimize monetization via subscriptions, ads, and virtual currencies. Leads experimentation, defines metrics, and delivers insights from behavioral data for revenue growth. Requires 7+ years in consumer products.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Partner closely with product and engineering teams to drive data-informed monetization across subscriptions, advertising, and virtual currency economies.
- Define success metrics and lead experimentation.
- Translate complex behavioral and economic data into actionable insights.
- Build data science foundations to support rapid product iteration and long-term growth.

## Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience as a Data Scientist working on consumer-facing products, ideally in chat, social, UGC, or entertainment platforms.
- Strong intuition for identifying the right questions and quickly driving to high-impact insights.
- Proven ability to turn analysis into product decisions and shipped outcomes.
- Comfortable working in fast-moving, experimental environments with incomplete data.
- Experience building or scaling data science practices, including experimentation, metrics, and analytics tooling.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Direct experience supporting monetization systems, including subscriptions and pricing, advertising or ad marketplaces, virtual currencies, economies, or gamified monetization.
- Background in consumer B2C products and/or B2B marketplaces.

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