Senior Data Science Manager

Asana Asana · Enterprise · San Francisco, CA · Product Data

Senior Data Science Manager at Asana, leading a team focused on informing strategy, defining metrics, and driving user value through experimentation, causal inference, and ML techniques. The role involves partnering with product, engineering, and design to set strategy, mentor reports, and make hands-on contributions to ML model building and data analysis. The company is exploring AI tools.

What you'd actually do

  1. Manage and lead a team of data scientists partnering with Asana’s product teams.
  2. Partner closely with Product Management, Design, and Engineering leaders to drive high-level strategy.
  3. Implement team practices that empower cross-functional partners to make data-informed decisions, striking a balance between rigorous quantitative methods and speed.
  4. Guide data scientists in their technical and professional development through active mentorship.
  5. Collaborate with recruiting and other data team managers to help grow and scale the organization.

Skills

Required

  • Data Science
  • Team Management
  • Product Strategy
  • Experiment Design
  • Causal Inference
  • Machine Learning
  • Statistical Modeling
  • Data Storytelling
  • Python
  • R

Nice to have

  • Enterprise SaaS products

What the JD emphasized

  • over 5 years of experience in a comparable data science role
  • at least 2 years of experience specifically managing a team of data scientists
  • strong technical background in a quantitative field
  • fluent in modern languages for statistics or data processing (e.g., Python, R)
  • comfortable with ambiguity and enjoy the challenge of balancing rigorous statistical practice with the speed of results