Data Scientist

Dropbox Dropbox · Enterprise · Canada +2 · CTO-Data Science, AI Platform & Eng (Sub Team)

Data Scientist at Dropbox to partner with product, engineering, and design teams to answer key questions about growing revenue, optimizing products, scaling and monetizing the business, and launching high-impact initiatives. Focus on user behavior analysis, customer segmentation, digital campaigns, monetization analytics, and business operations for a SaaS company.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop a deep understanding of customer journey phases and key business metrics
  2. Perform analytical deep-dives to analyze problems and opportunities, identify the hypothesis and design & execute experiments
  3. Inform future experimentation design and roadmaps by performing exploratory analysis to understand user engagement behavior and derive insights
  4. Create personalized segmentation strategies leveraging propensity models to enable targeting of offers and experiences based on user attributes
  5. Identify key trends and build automated reporting & executive-facing dashboards to track the progress of acquisition, monetization, and engagement trends.

Skills

Required

  • SQL
  • Hadoop
  • statistical analysis
  • experimentation design
  • regression
  • decision trees
  • multivariate experiments
  • communication skills

Nice to have

  • R
  • Python
  • product analytics
  • SaaS

What the JD emphasized

  • robust knowledge of consumer lifecycle and behavior analysis
  • customer segmentation
  • digital campaigns
  • monetization analytics
  • business operations for a SaaS company
  • customer journey phases
  • key business metrics
  • analytical deep-dives
  • design & execute experiments
  • user engagement behavior
  • propensity models
  • automated reporting & executive-facing dashboards
  • acquisition, monetization, and engagement trends
  • multi-dimensional customer behavior data sets
  • high volume of experiments
  • optimize the product for user experience and revenue
  • multivariate experiments
  • translate complex concepts into implications for the business
  • excellent communication skills
  • Understand what matters most and prioritize ruthlessly
  • cross-functional teams
  • rapidly execute and iterate
  • Bachelors’ or above in quantitative discipline
  • 3-5 years experience using analytics to drive key business decisions
  • business/product/marketing analytics
  • business intelligence
  • strategy consulting
  • work independently and proactively engage with business stakeholders with minimal direction
  • Significant experience with SQL and large unstructured datasets such as Hadoop
  • Deep understanding of statistical analysis, experimentation design
  • common analytical techniques like regression, decision trees
  • Solid background in running multivariate experiments to optimize a product or revenue flow
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Proficiency in programming/scripting and knowledge of statistical packages like R or Python is a plus
  • Product analytics experience in a SAAS company
  • Masters’ or above in a quantitative discipline