Staff Data Scientist, Quora

• 7+ years work experience in an analytical or quantitative role, including 5+ as a Data Scientist or similar title, with a track record of success at a senior or staff level of scope and autonomy
• Demonstrated ability to tackle difficult data questions that few others could have taken on, such as those requiring deep ownership of a product area and/or leading cross-functional and cross-team efforts
• Expertise with statistical techniques (e.g. regression, hypothesis testing, causal inference) and their practical application
• Experience mentoring other data scientists and raising team standards through best practices and process improvements
• Effective communication skills, including the ability to translate ambiguous business needs into analytical questions and to explain technical results to executives and cross-functional partners
• Extensive experience using a procedural programming language (e.g. Python, R) for data manipulation, modeling, and analysis; comfort working in a production codebase
• Strong judgment that blends quantitative rigor with product intuition and common sense

Desirable

• The Data Team is highly empowered at Quora, helping navigate complexity and influencing product and company strategy directly
• Quora's outsized commitment to data is visible in everything we do, from our sophisticated experimentation processes to the backgrounds of our leaders
• With this emphasis on data and empirics, we aim to balance rigor and pragmatism, searching for scrappy solutions in pursuit of our mission
• In joining Quora's strong data team, you'll both benefit from and help advance our culture of rational decision making
• As a member of our team, you'll work closely with product managers, product designers, engineers, and other cross-functional partners to devise appropriate measurements and metrics, design randomized controlled experiments, build visualizations, and tackle hard, open-ended problems that uncover usage patterns and opportunities across Quora
• Quora has a wide range of rich data, giving you ample room for exploration and creativity
• Data scientists at Quora work across multiple domains, including user growth, content quality, monetization, personalization, marketplace dynamics, and long-term company strategy
• Example projects include modeling long-term growth, improving the relevance and personalization of the homepage feed, analyzing drivers of user engagement and question-asking behavior, optimizing marketplace efficiency, and evaluating the effectiveness of monetization initiatives
• Own ambiguous, high-impact problem spaces across product and business domains, from question framing, to devising and conducting the analysis, to developing and implementing 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 data from across the product to uncover root causes of metric movements
• Develop tools, methodologies, and frameworks that help make both the data team and the company as a whole smarter about data
• Multiply the impact of other data scientists through mentorship and instilling industry best practices across the team