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DiscordDiscordSan Francisco, CA

Data Scientist, Analytics

Data Scientist partnering with product teams on analytics, KPI definition, dashboard creation, and A/B test design/analysis to improve user experience on Discord's gaming platform. Requires 3+ years in hands-on analytics, SQL, dashboards (Tableau/Looker), and experimentation.

180k – 220k/yr
On-site3+ YOEData Analytics

About the role

What you'll be doing

  • Partner with teams throughout Discord through the full lifecycle of data science analytics from ideation and exploratory analysis, to building dashboards and reports, and A/B testing
  • Define KPIs and metrics that help improve the user experience, encapsulating these measures in clean crisp dashboards that provide the company with timely and actionable information
  • Use our amazing infrastructure to quickly and easily build custom data sets to monitor novel product features and processes
  • Proactively socialize insights, dashboards, and reports with technical and non-technical audiences, soliciting feedback on where to improve
  • Be a champion of A/B testing and help groups throughout the company design, analyze, and interpret A/B tests correctly
  • Collaborate with data and engineering teams to design scalable and future-proof instrumentation

What you should have

  • 3+ years of experience autonomously translating ambiguous business problems into deep informative insights through hands-on analytics
  • 3+ years of experience building performant dashboards using Tableau, Looker, or similar software - with proficiency in designing clean crisp visualizations
  • 2+ years of experience in the design, analysis, and interpretation of A/B tests in a large data environment
  • 2+ years experience writing excellent SQL
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complicated findings or technical approaches in easy-to-understand ways
  • A desire to work with amazing, passionate people who care deeply about solving challenging problems to improve Discord
  • A collaborative attitude and a healthy dose of natural curiosity!

Bonus Points

  • Passion for Discord or online communities
  • Experience with analytics for social media or international subscription-based online services, including familiarity with concepts such as social graphs, LTV analysis, funnel analysis, etc.
  • Experience in the user engagement and growth problems
  • Experience writing performant code in BigQuery SQL
  • Experience with writing production ETL
  • Experience leveraging AI for data science

Skills

SQLTableauLookerA/B TestingBigQueryETLData Visualizationkpi definitiondashboard developmentPython

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