# Agent Data Scientist

**Company:** [Decagon](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/decagon)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Data Science
**Salary:** $165k – $215k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** SQL, Python, Data Science, Data Analytics, A/B Testing, Metric Design, Data Visualization, Large-Scale Data, Conversational Data, Llm Evaluation, AI Agents, Internal Tooling
**Posted:** 2026-08-20

> Senior individual contributor responsible for defining, operationalizing, and improving performance metrics for enterprise AI agent deployments. The role combines customer-facing advisory work, quantitative analysis, experimentation, and building scalable measurement tools and frameworks.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Work directly with customers to define performance metrics and operationalize them for trusted use.
- Own metric delivery, transparent data access, and performance reporting.
- Diagnose performance drivers, design experiments, and drive improvements on customer accounts.
- Build product features, tools, and frameworks that help Decagon scale measurement practices.
- Define success measures for new initiatives without established precedents.
- Provide feedback to Product, Engineering, and Research to shape the product roadmap.

## Requirements
- **5+ years** in data science, analytics, or another quantitative role, driving analyses end to end and influencing decisions.
- Exceptional judgment in interpreting metrics and prioritizing high-impact analysis.
- Comfort working in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.
- Strong independence and ability to set priorities against a broad mandate.
- Ability to align stakeholders with differing priorities and technical expertise.
- Fluency in **SQL** and **Python**.
- Comfort working with large volumes of messy, unstructured conversational data.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience building internal tooling with meaningful adoption.
- Experience working on AI products in production, including evaluating LLM or agent behavior and building evaluations.

## Compensation & Benefits
- **$165K-$215K + equity**
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits for employees and families.
- Life insurance and disability benefits.
- Retirement plan.
- Parental leave.
- Fertility and family-building benefits through Carrot.
- Monthly wellness and lifestyle stipend.
- Daily office lunches and snacks.
- Take-what-you-need vacation policy.

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