Data Scientist, Handshake
Consumer Research & Marketing
$156-180k
+ RSUs
The career platform for Gen Z
Job no longer available
The career platform for Gen Z
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$156-180k
+ RSUs
1001+ employees
Company mission
To democratize access to opportunity and ensure any student can build a great career no matter who they know, where they live or what school they attend.
Role
Who you are
- The right candidate is intellectually curious, highly collaborative, and loves telling stories backed by data
- Your experience with reporting tools and attention to detail will be invaluable as you manage end-to-end analytical projects in our fast-paced environment
- You are a strategic thinker with a bias toward action, and are able to drive alignment across senior leadership
- You lead with empathy and advocate internally on behalf of Handshake customers and the Marketing team
- 5-6+ years of experience in marketing analytics, consumer insights, growth analytics, or a related role
- Background working in B2C, SaaS, or tech startups with exposure to PLG and lifecycle marketing
- Expert in SQL and business intelligence/data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Mode, or similar). We use Looker and Hex for scalable dashboards and exploratory analysis
- Experience building new data pipelines and tables in BigQuery and DBT
- Understanding of digital marketing performance metrics (CAC, LTV, conversion rates, etc.)
- Experience analyzing marketing campaigns across multiple channels (email, paid media, SEO, social media)
- Familiarity with customer segmentation strategies and cohort analysis
- Strategic, structured thinker with strong analytical skills and business acumen
- Effective, clear, and executive level communication skills, verbal and written
- Authentic and demonstrated ability to drive cross-functional projects end-to-end and strong project management skills
What the job involves
- In this crucial role, you will be a strategic partner and advisor to our Consumer Growth and PLG/Lifecycle Marketing teams
- You will drive user growth by translating performance of our marketing campaigns, channels, and tactics into actionable insights that ensure efficient scaling and accelerated business results
- You will also enable marketers to self-service by delivering well-designed dashboards and reports
- In addition, you will also partner with cross-functional teams to identify trends and insights across our consumer acquisition, engagement, and retention funnel
- You’ll play a meaningful role in providing insightful analyses and strategic recommendations on how Handshake can deliver sustainable growth in acquiring new users and improved marketing campaign and channel performance
- Support our consumer and PLG growth initiatives to improve funnel performance (conversion rates, sales cycle, etc.), ensuring we have compelling insights readily available based campaign, lead, and pipeline performance
- Work as a collaborative teammate across Product, Data Engineering, and Marketing teams to support and drive marketing’s data strategy, operational processes and reporting
- Write complex SQL queries and perform in-depth analyses to extract meaningful patterns and opportunities from our consumer data
- Be project lead for creating new data pipelines and tables in BigQuery and DBT
- Communicate data-driven strategic insights on user acquisition, engagement, and retention to senior leadership team
- Assist and lead the development of new reporting and dashboards to analyze our marketing impact and effectiveness
- Partner closely with the Data Engineering team to uphold metric integrity, ensuring KPIs are accurately contextualized and pulled from “source of truth”
- Partner with Marketing Ops to build scalable intake processes, communicate a schedule of upcoming analyses and deliver regular training and enablement materials to the greater team
Our take
The three founders of Handshake established their company in an attempt to eliminate inequality and make the student hiring landscape fairer. The Handshake platform acts as a LinkedIn for college students, pairing students from every walk of life with more than 650K employers, including the entire Fortune 500, which includes Google and Nike.
The graduate recruitment platform is open to any student with a valid @.edu email address, with more than 17M active users from thousands of colleges and universities. With a student-first philosophy, the company generates revenue from both universities and employers rather than students.
Valued at $3.5B, Handshake has gained traction in a competitive market, although it has strong competition from recruiting giants LinkedIn and Indeed. It stands out, however, by helping students build new relationships and skills, rather than simply making connections to people they already know.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jan 2022
$200m
SERIES F
May 2021
$80m
SERIES E
Total funding: $434m
Company benefits
- Health Insurance: Comprehensive medical , dental, and vision coverage
- Fertility and family forming: Through a partnership, Handshake offers comprehensive family benefits, including infertility treatments and a $15K stipend, to its employees.
- LGTBQ+ coverage: All medical plans cover transgender services.
- Mental health: Discounts on a variety of wellness apps and an Employee Assistance Program with access to five free counseling sessions.
- Tax savings: Tax-advantaged benefits to save money on healthcare, dependent care, and other expenses.
- Learning & development: Employees are provided with an annual stipend to use towards professional development, career development workshops, manager trainings, and 1-on-1 coaching through external partnerships
- Community leader support: Employee Resource Group leaders are compensated with a quarterly bonus for the high-impact work the role requires
- Parental leave: Leaves of 16 weeks for birth-giving parents and 10 weeks for non-birth-giving parents; the policy applies to adoptions as well. Handshake also partners to provide one-on-one coaching on preparing for leave and coming back from leave
- Flexible time off: No accrued time off or waiting period to take vacation. Two paid flexible holiday days off to observe holidays that closely align with religious, cultural, and personal needs
- Sabbatical: Paid six-week sabbatical to recharge and reset beginning at six years of continuous, full-time employment, and every four years thereafter
- Volunteer time off: Two days off for social and civil activism, volunteer work, and/or any related activities, including attending and participating in protests
- Life & disability insurance: Essential benefits and automatic coverage with basic life insurance, plus short-term and long-term disability coverage.
- 401k match: Dollar-for-dollar match up to 1% of pay, with a max of $1,200 per year.
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Garrett Lord
(Co-Founder & CEO)Majored in Computer Science at Michigan Technological University. Interned at Palantir Technologies before co-founding Handshake in 2012.
Ben Christensen
(Co-Founder)Graduated from Michigan Technological University with a degree in Computer Networking & Systems Administration. Interned at Target and worked as a Developer at Up and Running Software. Was part of Arbor Networks' ASERT Security Research team.
Scott Ringwelski
(Co-Founder)Attained a degree in Computer Software Engineering from Michigan Technological University. Co-founded Handshake in 2012.
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