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Dropbox

Senior Data Scientist, New Initiatives

Remote

Company Description

Dropbox is a special place where we are all seeking to fulfill our mission to design a more enlightened way of working. We're looking for innovative talent to join us on our journey. The words shared by our founders at the start of Dropbox still ring true today. Wouldn't it be great if our working environment-and the tools we use-were designed with people's actual needs in mind? Imagine if every minute at work were well spent-if we could focus and spend our time on the things that matter. This is possible, and Dropbox is connecting the dots.The nearly 3,000 Dropboxers around the world have helped make Dropbox a living workspace - the place where people come together and their ideas come to life. Our 700+ million global users have been some of our best salespeople, and they have helped us acquire customers with incredible efficiency. As a result, we reached a billion dollar revenue run rate faster than any software-as-a-service company in history.Dropbox is making the dream of a fulfilling and seamless work life a reality. We hope you'll join us on the journey.

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Team Description

Our Product team advocates for our users and our business, setting the vision for our growing family of products. We use data, research, strategy, and empathy to guide multidisciplinary teams toward a common goal, balancing diverse perspectives and empowering our teams to do great work. As we scale globally, there's plenty of space for you to grow alongside us and simplify life for millions of people around the world in team that always focuses on we, not I, and creates delightful products that are worthy of trust.

Role Description

We're looking for a Senior Data Scientist to partner with product managers, engineers, designers, researchers, GTM teams providing first class analytical insights, experimentation guidance, and data foundation suggestions via solid and rigorous product thinking and rigorous data science techniques. An ideal candidate should have strong ownership with a "can-do" attitude, feel comfortable to handle ambiguities bringing 0-1 products to the market, get critical and creative thinking, have great product acumen and wide business knowledge from user behavior, customer segmentation, monetization, to machine learning, data loggings, and great execution on the product strategies

Responsibilities

  • Understand what matters most and prioritize ruthlessly from both strategic and tactical levels. Be time sensitive and accountable.
  • Develop a deep understanding of customer journey phases. Define key business and product metrics including quality, engagement, retention, and growth ones.
  • Work with engineers and PMs to create the reliable, efficient, and scalable data infra as well as the experimentation process and standard.
  • Perform analytical deep-dives to analyze user problems and opportunities, identify the hypothesis and design & execute experiments with great rigor and efficient data techniques.
  • Identify key trends and build automated reporting & executive-facing dashboards to track the progress of acquisition, monetization, engagement, and retention trends.
  • Translate complex concepts into implications for the business via excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
  • Work with cross-functional teams (including Data Science, Product, Engineering, Design, User Research, GTM, and senior executives) to rapidly execute and iterate.

Requirements

  • Have a startup mentality to be an outstanding problem solver. Be open and flexible for challenges including get ready to step up if necessary, equipped with great critical-thinking and creative-thinking
  • Take extreme ownership to drive product strategies with cross-functional partners by providing data insights
  • Be adventurous and curious about the AI and the relevant cutting-edge technologies
  • Masters' or above in quantitative discipline: Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
  • 4+ years of post-graduate industry experience using analytics to drive key business decisions; examples include business/product/marketing analytics, business intelligence, strategy consulting
  • Proven track record of being able to work independently and proactively engage with business stakeholders with minimal direction
  • Significant experience with SQL and large unstructured datasets such as Hadoop. Be proficient with Python to perform analyses and to create necessary visualizations
  • Deep understanding of statistical analysis, experimentation design, and common analytical techniques like regression, decision trees
  • Solid background in designing, running and interpreting complex experiments to optimize a product or revenue flow
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills

Dropbox is an equal opportunity employer. We are a welcoming place for everyone, and we do our best to make sure all people feel supported and connected at work. A big part of that effort is our support for members and allies of internal groups like Asians at Dropbox, BlackDropboxers, Latinx, Pridebox (LGBTQ), Vets at Dropbox, Women at Dropbox, ATX Diversity (based in Austin, Texas) and the Dropbox Empowerment Network (based in Dublin, Ireland).

Job ID: dropbox-4951142
Employment Type: Other

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • FSA
    • HSA
    • Health Reimbursement Account
    • Fitness Subsidies
    • HSA With Employer Contribution
    • Health Insurance
    • Dental Insurance
    • Vision Insurance
    • Life Insurance
    • Short-Term Disability
    • Long-Term Disability
  • Parental Benefits

    • Non-Birth Parent or Paternity Leave
    • Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
  • Work Flexibility

    • Flexible Work Hours
    • Remote Work Opportunities
  • Office Life and Perks

    • Commuter Benefits Program
    • Casual Dress
  • Vacation and Time Off

    • Leave of Absence
    • Personal/Sick Days
    • Paid Holidays
    • Unlimited Paid Time Off
    • Paid Vacation
  • Financial and Retirement

    • Relocation Assistance
    • Performance Bonus
    • Company Equity
    • 401(K) With Company Matching
    • 401(K)
  • Professional Development

    • Learning and Development Stipend
    • Promote From Within
    • Mentor Program
    • Access to Online Courses
  • Diversity and Inclusion

    • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program

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