Staff Data Scientist, Monetization

Character.ai
Redwood City, New York
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 180,000 - 300,000 annuallyFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningExperience: 7+ yearsSkills: ["Data analysis","Communication","Problem-solving","Collaboration","Experimental design"]

Staff Data Scientist will partner with product, engineering, and growth to scale monetization across subscriptions, advertising, and virtual currency economies. You’ll define success metrics, run experiments, and translate behavioral and economic data into actionable product insights, building data science foundations to support rapid iteration and long-term growth while preserving Character.AI’s open, user-driven experience.

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Character.ai
Character.ai
8 months ago

Staff Data Scientist, Monetization

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Job Summary

Staff Data Scientist will partner with product, engineering, and growth to scale monetization across subscriptions, advertising, and virtual currency economies. You’ll define success metrics, run experiments, and translate behavioral and economic data into actionable product insights, building data science foundations to support rapid iteration and long-term growth while preserving Character.AI’s open, user-driven experience.
Location: Redwood City, New York
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning

Key Responsibilities

  • •Partner with product and engineering to drive monetization across subscriptions, advertising, and virtual currency economies.
  • •Define success metrics, lead experimentation, and translate complex behavioral and economic data into actionable insights.
  • •Build data science foundations to support rapid product iteration and long-term growth.
  • •Collaborate with growth teams to scale monetization strategies while maintaining openness and creativity.
  • •Shape how we measure, experiment with, and grow revenue without compromising user experience.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 180,000 - 300,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •7+ years of experience as a Data Scientist working on consumer-facing products, ideally in chat, social, UGC, or entertainment platforms.
  • •Strong intuition for identifying the right questions and quickly driving to high-impact insights.
  • •Proven ability to turn analysis into product decisions and shipped outcomes.
  • •Comfortable working in fast-moving, experimental environments with incomplete data.
  • •Experience building or scaling data science practices, including experimentation, metrics, and analytics tooling.
Experience:7+ yearsConsumer productsUGCChatSocialEntertainment
Skills:Data analysisCommunicationProblem-solvingCollaborationExperimental design

Company Brief

Character.ai
Builds a conversational AI platform where users create and interact with lifelike AI characters for entertainment, learning, and productivity, backed by advanced large‑language‑model research and consumer-facing products.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series A
Headquarters: Menlo Park, United States
Founded: 2021
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