# Data Scientist, Analytics

**Company:** [Discord](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/discord)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Data Analytics
**Salary:** $180k – $220k/yr
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** SQL, Tableau, Looker, A/B Testing, BigQuery, ETL, Data Visualization, kpi definition, dashboard development, Python
**Posted:** 2026-07-21

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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

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