Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Quora is a privately held, remote-first company dedicated to growing the world's collective intelligence. They are seeking a Data Scientist to work closely with product managers and engineers, utilizing data to inform product decisions and tackle complex problems across various domains.
Responsibilities
- Own well-scoped, impactful problem spaces across product and business domains — from framing the question, to conducting the analysis, to working with cross-functional partners to implement solutions
- Design and evaluate experiments to measure the impact of product and strategic changes
- Analyze data from across the product to uncover root causes of metric movements
- Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to inform product decisions with data
- Contribute to tools, methodologies, and frameworks that help make the data team and the company as a whole smarter about data
Skills
- Availability for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora's coordination hours (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)
- 2+ years work experience in an analytical or quantitative role, including 1+ as a Data Scientist or similar title
- Demonstrated ability to independently drive data analyses that inform product or business decisions
- Proficiency with statistical techniques (e.g. regression, hypothesis testing, causal inference) and their practical application
- Effective communication skills, including the ability to translate business needs into analytical questions and to explain technical results to cross-functional partners
- Experience using a procedural programming language (e.g. Python, R) for data manipulation, modeling, and analysis; comfort working in a production codebase
- Strong judgment that blends quantitative rigor with product intuition and common sense
- Experience evaluating experiments or recommender systems in offline analysis and online experiments
- Experience with large data sets and distributed computing tools (e.g. Presto/Trino)
- Active Quora user with curiosity about the product
Benefits
- Medical/dental/vision coverage
- Equity refreshers
- Remote work reimbursement
- Paid time off
- Employee assistance programs
- Benefits are country-specific and may vary.
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