Staff Data Scientist, ClassDojo
$172.5-250k
Salary dependent on location
Communication app for primary schools
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Communication app for primary schools
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$172.5-250k
Salary dependent on location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To give every kid on Earth an education they love by enabling teachers to build students' confidence, encouraging them to become lifelong learners.
Role
Who you are
- You have at least 8 years of experience in a data science role
- You have experience working in consumer tech
- You have the ability to write structured and efficient SQL queries on large data sets
- You have experience designing AB/multivariate tests and drawing actionable conclusions
Desirable
- You have expert knowledge within growth, in particular of consumer products
- You have experience within fast paced startup environments
- You are a strong communicator: you are able to clearly articulate your thinking, verbally and in writing. You proactively share your work, even if it’s still in progress, bringing the team along with you. You have a sharp ambiguity filter, always seeking to clarify what is unclear for yourself and for others
- You are a strong product focused strategic thinker: you thrive in identifying and refining product problems to solve. You have the ability to think about high level product strategy and you have a vision for how data can help drive that strategy
What the job involves
- Data is core to how ClassDojo makes decisions
- As a staff data scientist, you’ll help build the world's leading consumer education business, one that is already reaching tens of millions of parents, teachers, and children
- You’ll help grow ClassDojo to our next major milestones while deepening love for our brand
- The data science function at ClassDojo is an equal partner to product, engineering, and design
- As a senior leader on a high-performing, cross-functional team, you'll shape the company’s strategic direction
- You and the team will tackle a broad range of product and business problems: uncovering unique user insights and identifying and testing critical product improvements
Our take
ClassDojo started as a classroom management tool, which teachers can use to reward and influence good conduct at school. Beyond this, it has grown into a communication platform for teachers, students and their families, used by 95% of schools in the US, with a total of over 51 million users worldwide.
ClassDojo has had an interesting journey since its 2011 launch, growing steadily but struggling to turn a profit for almost a decade. However, the launch of its monetized communication app and tripled revenue as online learning became the norm during the pandemic propelled ClassDojo to success.
This success has led to significant venture capital investment, which is intended to evolve the company once more, from a communication app into an extracurricular learning platform and creative space for current ClassDojo users. The size and loyalty of ClassDojo’s user base, as well as the company’s sure-footed survival and growth over the last decade led to the company acquiring Y Combinator graduates Prendea in 2022, expanding its operations into Latin America and solidifying a promising future for the company.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
38% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jul 2022
$125m
SERIES D
Sep 2021
$125m
SERIES D
Total funding: $346.1m
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
Company values
- Trust > Control
- Collaboration > Parallelism
- Candor > Harmony
- Learning > Certainty
- Results > Effort
- Finishing > Starting
- Humanity > Heroism
- Shared Ownership > Specialization
- Continuous Improvement > Continuous Production
- Failure Recovery > Failure Avoidance
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Sam Chaudhary
(CEO)A Cambridge graduate and Y Combinator alumnus. Was a Business Analyst at McKinsey and worked in Product at OneFineStay.
Liam Don
(President)Studied Computer Science at Durham University. Worked as a Games Developer at Jagex and researched Technology Enhanced Learning at Durham.
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