Senior/staff Data Scientist, Core Product

Glean Glean · Enterprise · Data

This role is for a Senior/Staff Data Scientist focused on Glean's core product, which aims to make knowledge work faster and more humane using AI. The role involves defining and building data assets, identifying opportunities to improve KPIs, and creating quantitative frameworks to measure the performance of AI-powered assistant products. The data scientist will explore the intersection of search and generative AI products, various product modalities, and how to empower users and customers with AI agents. The goal is to enhance user and customer experience through product analytics and enterprise-grade AI, contributing to Glean's growth.

What you'd actually do

  1. Define and build data assets, e.g. KPI definitions, data pipelines and dashboards, to measure the performance of AI-powered assistant products for knowledge workers.
  2. Identify opportunities to improve these KPIs, and influence cross functional teams to incorporate associated changes into their roadmaps.
  3. Create and maintain quantitative frameworks and methodologies, e.g. bring more rigor into experiment analyses, use statistical modeling to identify leading indicators of user growth and engagement.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelors/Masters/PhD degree in Statistics, Mathematics or Computer Science, or another quantitative field.
  • 5+ years of industry experience as a data scientist (2 years for PhD).
  • Strong business sense.
  • Proficient in SQL and the modern data stack (e.g. dbt pipelines for ETL/ELT).
  • Proficient in Python.
  • Experience in writing source-controlled code for pipelines and internal tools for data-oriented decision making.
  • Strong at statistics.
  • Experience in applying statistical skills into tangible improvements in products, internal tools and processes using A/B testing and non-experimental methods.
  • Concise and precise in written and verbal communication.
  • Technical documentation is your strong suit.

Nice to have

  • Experience in B2B SaaS, especially in the enterprise AI space.
  • Very strong sense of ownership and self-motivation.
  • Laser focused on delivering business impact while growing as an individual along with Glean.
  • Good at managing evolving priorities while bringing core initiatives to a success.
  • Experience working with collaborators across large time zone differences.
  • Familiar with BI visualization tools such as Sigma, Metabase, Tableau or Looker.

What the JD emphasized

  • strong business sense
  • strong at defining good product KPIs/guardrail metrics
  • strong at statistics
  • strong at defining good product KPIs/guardrail metrics
  • strong at statistics

Other signals

  • AI-powered assistant products
  • search and generative AI products
  • product analytics to enhance a user and customer’s experience
  • enterprise-grade & highly performant AI