Discord is looking for experienced and passionate data scientist to join
our small-but-growing Data Science team! As a member of the Data Science team,
you will help Discord achieve its mission of providing people with a sense of
belonging in online communities, by collaborating directly with the teams who
design, build, and support Discord. If you’re passionate about data, impact,
and working on an amazing team, read on and check out our blog about how our
team informs strategy & innovation at Discord
[here](https://discord.com/blog/how-data-science-informs-strategy-innovation-
at-discord)!
What You'll Be Doing
- Partner with teams through the full lifecycle of data analytics from ideation and exploratory analysis, to building dashboards and reports
- Define KPIs and diagnostic metrics that help improve the user experience, encapsulating these measures in clean crisp dashboards that provide the company with timely and actionable information
- Use our amazing infrastructure to quickly and easily build custom data sets to monitor novel product features and processes
- Proactively socialize insights, dashboards, and reports with technical and non-technical audiences, soliciting feedback on where to improve
- Be a champion of A/B testing and help groups throughout the company design, analyze, and interpret A/B tests correctly
- Collaborate with data and engineering teams to design scalable and future-proof instrumentation
You Will Thrive In This Role If
- 4+ years of experience autonomously translating ambiguous business problems into deep informative insights through hands-on analytics
- 4+ years of experience building performant dashboards using Tableau, Looker, or similar software - with proficiency in designing clean crisp visualizations
- 3+ years experience writing excellent SQL
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complicated findings or technical approaches in easy-to-understand ways
- 2+ years of experience in the design, analysis, and interpretation of A/B tests in a large data environment
- A desire to work with amazing, passionate people who care deeply about solve challenging problems to improve Discord
- Last but not least - a collaborative attitude and a healthy dose of natural curiosity!
Bonus Points
- Passion for Discord or online communities
- Experience with writing production ETL
- Experience with technical leadership, being the point person for one or more stakeholder groups
- Experience with analytics for social media or international subscription-based online services, including familiarity with concepts such as social graphs, LTV analysis, funnel analysis, etc
- Experience writing performant code in BigQuery SQL
**_New York City residents only: Minimum salary of $175,000 year + equity
and benefits
*Note: Disclosure as required by NYC Pay Transparency Law
Colorado residents only: Minimum salary of $140,000 year + equity and benefits
Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085(8-5-20)._*