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Staff Data Scientist, Product & Pricing

Leads technical strategy for product experience, building predictive models for matching optimization, growth flywheels, and marketplace health. Partners with PMs on experimentation, causal inference, and data platform design using SQL/Python expertise. Requires 8+ years in data science.

195k – 235kSan Francisco, CAData ScienceRemote8+ YOE

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Act as a Strategic Thought Partner: Partner directly with Product Managers and other leaders to frame key business problems, define our measurement strategy, and guide product innovations.
  • Architect Marketplace Intelligence: Build and deploy sophisticated predictive models to refine Kindred’s matching algorithms, optimizing for growth, trust and liquidity.
  • Lead and Scale Experimentation: Own the end-to-end experimental framework, applying advanced causal inference to measure the ripple effects of product changes on community sentiment and marketplace health.
  • Own the Full-Stack Data Lifecycle: Lead the design of robust event structures with Product Engineers and collaborate with Data Engineering to build a scalable data platform that ensures our data is "born clean" and ready for modeling.
  • Influence and Educate: Translate complex analytical concepts into clear, actionable recommendations and effectively persuade senior stakeholders to adopt data-informed strategies.

Requirements

  • Experience: 8+ years of experience in a quantitative role such as data science, with a proven track record of influencing strategy at a leadership level, preferably within a consumer tech or marketplace company.
  • Full-Stack Practitioner: Expert in SQL and Python/R, with a proven ability to move a project from a whiteboard concept to a production-grade ML model, and experience with modern data warehouses.
  • Mastery of Causal Inference and Experimental Design: Deep experience going beyond simple A/B tests to measure product impact in networked environments where interference and spillover are present.
  • Leadership & Influence: Exceptional communication skills, with a proven ability to simplify complex concepts and persuade senior stakeholders to trust the data and embrace new measurement strategies.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Think in Systems, not just Features: Naturally consider "spillover effects"—understanding how a boost in one area of the platform might impact another part of the community ecosystem.
  • Technical Force Multiplier: Track record of leveling up the teams around you, setting the standard for code quality, and effectively communicating complex technical risks to non-technical partners.

Benefits

  • Competitive cash compensation and equity
  • Comprehensive health benefits
  • Flexible time off, plus 12 paid holidays per year
  • 21 credits per year to stay in Kindred homes
  • $4,000 annual travel stipend
  • Remote-first and remote-flexible work environment

Skills

SQLPythonRMachine LearningCausal InferenceExperimental DesignPredictive ModelingData WarehousesA/B TestingMarketplace Analytics

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