Data Scientist, Quora

• Ability to be available for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora's “coordination hours" (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)
• 3+ years work experience in an analytical or quantitative role as a Data Scientist or similar title
• Extensive experience generating insights using statistical techniques (e.g. regression, hypothesis testing)
• Demonstrated ability to clearly explain data results to cross-functional teams
• Experience using a procedural programming language (e.g. Python, R) to manipulate, clean, and analyze data
• Ability to exercise judgment and combine quantitative skills with intuition and common sense
• Experience evangelizing best practices and process improvements on your team

Desirable

• As a member of our team, you'll work closely with product managers, product designers, and engineers to devise appropriate measurements and metrics, design randomized controlled experiments, build visualizations, and tackle hard, open-ended problems that uncover usage patterns and opportunities for the company
• Quora has a wide range of rich data, giving you ample room for exploration and creativity
• Examples of some projects our data scientists have worked on include modeling our long-term growth, improving the relevance and personalization of the homepage feed, and exploratory analysis of factors driving question-asking behavior
• As a data scientist on monetization you will work with our ads team to make sure Quora efficiently delivers high-quality ads to the right people at the right time
• You will also work with the sales team to identify growth opportunities and demonstrate effectiveness of campaigns on Quora
• Extract actionable insights from broad, open-ended questions
• Design and evaluate experiments to measure the impact of product changes
• Analyze data from across the product to uncover the root causes of metric movements
• Communicate results to cross-functional stakeholders to inform product decisions
• Develop tools to scale and automate analyses, improving productivity across the company
• Improve the work of other data scientists through mentorship and by bringing industry best practices to the team