Staff Data Scientist - Quora (Remote)

Quora
United States, Ireland, Canada
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningExperience: 7+ yearsSkills: ["Mentorship","Communication","Stakeholder partnership","Problem-solving","Data rigor"]

Work on Quora’s product by owning ambiguous, high-impact analytics problems end-to-end—from framing questions and designing measurement through analysis and cross-functional solution implementation. Partner with product, design, engineering, and leadership to shape strategy, design and evaluate experiments, and diagnose root causes behind metric movement. Develop reusable tools and frameworks to raise the team’s data rigor, while mentoring data scientists and instilling best practices.

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Staff Data Scientist - Quora (Remote)

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Job Summary

Work on Quora’s product by owning ambiguous, high-impact analytics problems end-to-end—from framing questions and designing measurement through analysis and cross-functional solution implementation. Partner with product, design, engineering, and leadership to shape strategy, design and evaluate experiments, and diagnose root causes behind metric movement. Develop reusable tools and frameworks to raise the team’s data rigor, while mentoring data scientists and instilling best practices.
Location: United States, Ireland, Canada
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own ambiguous, high-impact problem spaces across product and business domains, from question framing through analysis to implemented solutions with cross-functional partners.
  • •Partner with cross-functional stakeholders and company leadership to shape product strategy and anticipate future challenges.
  • •Design and evaluate experiments to measure the impact of product and strategic changes.
  • •Analyze product data to uncover root causes of metric movements.
  • •Develop tools, methodologies, and frameworks that improve how the data team and company use data, and multiply impact through mentorship.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionEquityPaid LeaveRemote Work

Key Requirements

  • •7+ years in an analytical/quantitative role, including 5+ as a Data Scientist or similar, with senior/staff-level scope and autonomy.
  • •Expertise with statistical techniques such as regression, hypothesis testing, and causal inference, applied in practice.
  • •Extensive experience using a procedural programming language (e.g., Python, R) for data manipulation, modeling, and analysis in a production codebase.
  • •Demonstrated ability to tackle difficult data questions with deep ownership and to lead cross-functional/cross-team efforts.
  • •Experience mentoring data scientists and raising team standards through best practices and process improvements.
Experience:7+ years
Skills:MentorshipCommunicationStakeholder partnershipProblem-solvingData rigor
Tech Stack:PythonRPrestoTrino

Company Brief

Quora
Quora is a question-and-answer platform that connects people and AI to share knowledge across millions of topics, and operates Poe, an AI chatbot platform enabling creators to build and monetize chatbots.
Industry: Digital Media
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Revenue: USD 10M to 25M
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: USD 250M to 500M
Headquarters: Mountain View, United States
Founded: 2009
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