Staff Data Scientist, LegalZoom
$140.5-182.1k
Online legal advice platform
Open for applications
Online legal advice platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$140.5-182.1k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To transform how people navigate the legal system.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years in data science, decision science, or advanced analytics with a track record influencing senior stakeholders and driving measurable business outcomes
- Advanced proficiency in SQL and strong skills in Python for analysis, modeling, and reproducible workflows
- Experience working with modern data stacks including a modern cloud warehouse (e.g. Snowflake), orchestration (e.g. Airflow), attribution analytics (GA4/Segment), version control (GitHub), BI/visualization (ThoughtSpot/Tableau), and notebook tools (Hex/Jupyter)
- Excellence in data storytelling—able to translate complex findings into crisp, actionable recommendations for non-technical audiences
- Business acumen in pricing, partner economics, and financial modeling, with an ability to collaborate closely with Finance
- Experience partnering with engineers on instrumentation and data quality
- Expertise in metric development and experimentation, including test design, power analysis, and end-to-end evaluation
- Hands-on experience with causal inference methods and pragmatic application to business decisions
- Familiarity with AI/ML techniques (e.g., uplift modeling, classification/propensity, forecasting) and when to apply them vs. simpler baselines
What the job involves
- We’re hiring a Staff Data Scientist to partner with our Partnerships team and Finance as a proactive thought leader
- The Partnerships team builds and scales acquisition and ecosystem relationships with partner companies, integrating experiences and co‑marketing to drive measurable growth, margin, and customer value
- You’ll develop metrics, experiments, and models that power partner onboarding, standardized measurement, pricing strategy, and performance optimization
- You’ll collaborate deeply with Partnerships, Finance, Data Science, Data Engineering, Engineering, and Product to ensure data requirements are captured early and instrumentation is consistent across systems
- Act as a data thought partner to Partnerships and Finance, guiding strategy and prioritization with proactive analysis and clear recommendations
- Lead standardized measurement for partner performance by defining KPIs, building partner scorecards, and operationalizing a single source of truth across dashboards and self-serve tools
- Embed data requirements into the partner lifecycle (from contract discussions through onboarding) to ensure we can reliably measure attribution, conversion, LTV, revenue share, and ongoing ROI
- Drive partner onboarding analytics by aligning tracking and event schemas with Data Engineering, Product, and Engineering; close gaps in attribution and funnel visibility
- Own pricing strategy and optimization analytics (elasticity measurement, price tests, revenue and margin tradeoffs) and advise on deal structures with Finance
- Design and analyze experiments (A/B and multivariate) and run causal inference studies (e.g., diff-in-diff, matching, synthetic control) when randomized tests aren’t feasible
- Build and evolve partner/channel custom attribution approaches (rule-based baselines to model-based methods) that inform spend allocation, partner incentives, and roadmap decisions
- Explore “green-field” opportunities via proactive deep dives, root-cause analyses, and opportunity sizing across the partner ecosystem and in-product experiences
- Ship durable, production-grade analytics and data layers with well-documented pipelines in partnership with Data Engineering
- Communicate insights to partner-facing stakeholders in clear, layperson terms; support adhoc analyses and weekly business review narratives as needed
Our take
LegalZoom is an online legal technology service that can help people create their own legal documents. It believes legal advice and services should be clear, easy-to-understand, and affordable, and provides services to help people make a will, start a business, lodge a trademark application, and more.
LegalZoom has helped millions of people who otherwise could not hire a lawyer with its extensive range of legal solutions. It competes with a handful of other companies, such as IncFile and Rocket Lawyer, that also provide online legal technology.
Despite operating in a competitive market, LegalZoom has continued to expand, helped in part by growing demand for digital legal solutions, Its 2021 IPO provided further momentum, allowing it to scale its operations and invest in new growth opportunities.
Most notably, the company has now been named the provider of 'legal help' for Perplexity - a partnership that could potentially reshape how consumers and small businesses discover and engage with legal services, positioning legal support as something more accessible.
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Insights
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jul 2011
$66m
SERIES B
Mar 2007
$45m
SERIES A
Total funding: $111m
Company benefits
- Remote-friendly work, encouraging time outside the office to relax and recharge
- Comprehensive health benefits, including mental health and fertility care
- A culture of growth, fostering learning and development and opportunities to give back
Company HQ
Old Mountain View, Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Jeff Stibel
(CEO)Jeff has been the CEO of LegalZoom since 2014. Alongside this role, he is also a Partner at Bryant Stibel, on the Board of Trustees at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, and a Chairman at The BrainGate Company.
Noel Watson
(COO & CFO)Noel joined LegalZoom in 2020 as CFO, adding COO to his title in 2024. Prior to this, he was the CFO at TrueCar and VP of Finance/Chief Accounting Officer at TripAdvisor.
Nicole Miller
(CLO & General Counsel)Nicole joined LegalZoom in 2020 as a General Counsel, adding CLO to her title in 2024. Prior to this, she spent 6 years at The Honest Company, joining in 2014 as a Senior Corporate Counsel before becoming VP of Legal Affairs and Associate General Counsel in 2016 and then moving into the role of General Counsel in 2018.
Prior to joining LegalZoom in 2021, Sheily was the VP of Global Human Resources at Activision Blizzard. She also spent nearly 10 years at Google in various roles, including Director of Global Trust & Safety Operations.
Daniel Lysaught
(CMO)Daniel joined LegalZoom in 2022 as a VP of Growth Marketing before stepping into the role of CMO in 2023. Prior to this, he was a VP of Growth Product & Marketing at Good Eggs. He also spent 6 years at TrueCar in various roles, including Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships & Marketing and VP of Customer Acquisition.
Kathy Tsitovich
(Chief Corporate Development & Partnership Officer)Prior to joining LegalZoom in 2020, Kathy spent 21 years at Intuit. While there, she held a number of roles, including VP of Consumer Group and Business Development.
Aaron Stibel
(CBO & CCO)Alongside LegalZoom, Aaron is a Founding Partner at Bryant Stibel, a Board Member at RBmedia, and an Advisory Board Member at Tufts University.
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