Lead Data Scientist, Apollo

Senior Staff

Salary not provided

+ Equity.

SQL
Python
R
Hadoop
Spark
Expert level
Remote in Canada, US
Apollo

GraphQL developer platform

Open for applications

Apollo

GraphQL developer platform

201-500 employees

B2BEnterpriseSaaSAPIData IntegrationDevOps

Open for applications

Salary not provided

+ Equity.

SQL
Python
R
Hadoop
Spark
Expert level
Remote in Canada, US

201-500 employees

B2BEnterpriseSaaSAPIData IntegrationDevOps

Company mission

To make application development easier, better, and accessible to more people by building open source tools and commercial services.

Role

Who you are

  • You have the technical excellence, leadership skills, and a track record of impactful work
  • You care deeply about working effectively across cross-functional teams to land outcomes
  • You’re fundamentally excited to be a part of building the infrastructure of the future
  • You have an insatiable curiosity, humility, and drive to hone your craft
  • You lead with a growth mindset – the work is never done and there’s something to learn from everyone
  • ~10 years of data science/quantitative modeling experience to solve business and product problems; proficiency in SQL and a computing language such as Python or R
  • Strong knowledge and hands-on experience in several of the following areas: machine learning, statistics, optimization, product analytics, causal inference, and/or experimentation
  • Demonstrated experience of leading organization-wide initiatives spanning multiple teams, or leveraging deep domain and business expertise to influence tech roadmap planning and execution
  • Ability to communicate results clearly with a focus on driving impact
  • Demonstrated ability to effectively collaborate across multiple teams and stakeholders to drive business outcomes
  • Demonstrated ability to balance execution and velocity with research, statistical depth, and scalable design
  • A builder's mindset with a willingness to question assumptions and conventional wisdom
  • May be required to participate in on-call rotation

Desirable

  • Experience designing, running, and analyzing complex experiments or leveraging causal inference designs
  • Experience working in Growth on problems like attribution, channel performance optimization, CAC optimization and experimentation
  • Experience with distributed tools such as Spark, Hadoop, etc
  • A PhD or MS in a quantitative field (e.g., Statistics, Engineering, Mathematics, Economics, Quantitative Finance, Sciences, Operations Research)Experience developing and deploying metric frameworks

What the job involves

  • We are building a best-in-class Data practice and looking for a Lead Data Scientist to partner with the Product, Finance, Growth, and Go-to-Market teams
  • Our work is broad and varied, influencing how our product works (e.g. understanding user needs, product friction, product adoption across multiple user personas), how our business works (forecasting key outcomes, building strategic KPIs), how our go-to-market motions operate (designing growth experiments, optimizing marketing investments, refining sales processes, and estimating causal effects), and everything in between
  • While we have built out a solid data warehouse, our next step is to leverage this data and drive high impact by enabling the right strategic decisions for our product, business, and users
  • As Lead Data Scientist at Apollo, you’ll be the pioneer in setting up our Data Science practice, being the first on the team
  • You’ll work closely with a specific part of the business, playing a crucial role in optimizing our systems and leveraging data to make strategic business decisions
  • You’ll build the systems that ensure that the company strategy, products, and user interactions make smart use of our rich data, using techniques like machine learning, statistical modeling, causal inference, optimization, experimentation, and all forms of analytics
  • [Domain] Deep expertise in building the right systems for data analysis, modeling, visualization and prediction, to land optimal business outcomes
  • [Technical Leadership] Expert problem solver, able to balance technical requirements, with human elements, business constraints, and broader project context, to effectively drive trade-offs amidst high ambiguity. Assume hands-on leadership, especially when helping teams set their long-term vision and resolve complex problems through iterative execution
  • [Project management]: Proficient in planning projects, managing requirements across key stakeholders, and ensuring ethical data practices
  • [Collaboration]: Working with the executive team, and key cross-functional stakeholders to identify opportunities and implement models to influence the org effectively
  • [Communication]: Presenting findings to stakeholders and communicating complex insights to non-technical audiences

Our take

Apollo provides technology to help startups and enterprises build apps using GraphQL. It provides the data graph layer connecting modern apps to the cloud, and is the industry standard implementation for GraphQL.

Apollo claims that GraphQL wins out over competing REST APIs by offering a slicker, more bug-resistant service that does not require complex data fetching code. Certainly, the benefits of GraphQL become apparent with more complex web services or mobile applications, and this is the direction in which companies are increasingly headed as business shifts online. As such, it is unsurprising that Apollo count PayPal, New York Times, and Walmart among a roster of high-profile clients.

In recent years, Apollo has shifted online and its products are in high demand. Due to this, the company has both the resources and the strong industry reputation to continue offering it at the highest grade. Its 2022 launch of "Supergraph", a software layer designed to unify disparate data feeds and create one source for front-end developers, is a good demonstration of the company's continued dedication to innovating.

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Insights

Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

126% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Aug 2021

$130m

SERIES D

Jun 2019

$22m

SERIES C

Total funding: $183.2m

Company benefits

  • Flexible working hours
  • Generous time off
  • Parental leave
  • Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and Disability insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Work from home opportunities
  • Virtual “coffee chats” and team lunches, and an AV setup specifically tailored for remote experience
  • Everyone-in-town weeks, where we fly all of our Apollo employees to San Francisco for an action packed week of work and play

Company values

  • We strive for excellence through candid and constructive feedback.
  • We are constantly teaching and learning from each other, allowing us to grow both professionally and personally.

Company HQ

SoMa, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Co-founder & CEO of Meteor Development group and former software engineer at Asana.

Founder of ActBlue and Meteor Development group. Former Engineer at NetApp. MSc in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT.

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