Staff Data Scientist, Clubhouse
$255-298k
Social media app based on voice
Be an early applicant
Social media app based on voice
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$255-298k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To fill everyone's life with rich and meaningful friendships.
Role
Who you are
- You're technically deep. You have 7+ years of experience as a data scientist. You're highly fluent in SQL and Python — not just for analysis, but for influencing engineering decisions, defining data infrastructure standards, and being a credible technical voice in system design conversations. You're comfortable operating across an end-to-end data pipeline: you can triage pipeline issues, spec data engineering work, and lead a data engineer through complex problems when needed. You've designed and analyzed experiments, know the difference between a well-run test and a noisy one, and have deep expertise in predictive modeling and ML techniques
- You think like a product partner, not a service org. You don't wait for requests – you proactively identify what questions matter, size opportunities, and help product managers figure out where to place bets. You have a healthy skepticism about data and know when something doesn't add up and dive deeper towards the right solution
- You communicate with clarity. You can take a messy analysis and turn it into a clear recommendation. You write well. You build dashboards and visualizations that people actually use to make decisions
- You thrive with autonomy. You will set the agenda for what the team works on and helps shape which bets the company makes. You thrive in turning ambiguity into a roadmap
- You ship. You have a bias toward getting things done. You'd rather have a good-enough answer today than a perfect one in two weeks
- You are a team player. You have a low-ego, put the team’s success first, and believe that fostering a collaborative and diverse environment is not only integral to the team's well-being but also crucial for driving innovation and achieving long-term success
What the job involves
- You'll be the senior technical anchor for our data science function, shaping how we do data science at Alpha, driving cross-functional data strategy, and helping the team do its best work. You’ll set direction for our experimentation practice and bring analytical clarity to the biggest strategic bets we’re making, across all product areas
- You’ll own data strategy across the company. You’ll set direction for our experimentation practice and bring analytical clarity to the biggest strategic bets we’re making, across all product areas. We're a small team (1 data scientist + a part-time data engineer) at a company with millions of users. Your work will be high-leverage and visible
- You’ll provide mentorship and thought partnership to our senior data scientists, and operate with the autonomy that comes with setting direction, not just executing within it
- We are a remote friendly-company — with a strong commitment to ensuring people can do great work here and thrive without having to live near an office. This role is open to candidates across the U.S
- Own our experimentation framework and standards across squads. Define how we design, run, and evaluate experiments, setting the bar for what a well-run test looks like, driving consistency across the org, and directly owning the highest-stakes analyses
- Drive strategic opportunity sizing across the company. You’ll proactively identify where we should place bets and make data proactive product partners. You’ll synthesize signals across product areas and help leadership prioritize before roadmaps are locked
- Own company-wide, top line metric strategy and drive the data changes needed to ensure high data coverage and accurate metric forecasting for our quarterly and yearly goals
- Lead our predictive modeling and ML work. You’ll own the models that proactively shape product direction and mentor data scientists in developing these skills
- You’ll grow, teach, and improve rapidly. At Clubhouse you’ll be working with an incredible team, who love to learn from and teach each other. You’ll find yourself stretching to new areas, immersed in feedback, and growing your skills on a daily basis
- You’ll create something meaningful. Social products allow people to connect in ways that were never before possible. When the telephone was invented, it suddenly allowed people to speak with others across the world. Thanks to FaceTime, grandparents everywhere can now watch their grandchildren grow up. At Clubhouse, you’ll be figuring out something entirely new for the world—a positive product that brings people’s voices together to help everyone have a life filled with great friendships
Our take
Clubhouse is an invite-only audio chat social platform, catering to users who are turning away from mainstream social platforms. It makes talking, chatting, storytelling, and developing personal relationships more simple and effortless across the globe. With this approach, it is reducing the friction for human socialising in an increasingly digital world.
One big challenge for the company will be competing with larger platforms as they launch similar “social audio” features. This could make a real dent in Clubhouse’s market share, and it will also need to account for restrictions on its platform from countries such as China and the UAE.
That said, Clubhouse should at least be able to cash in on jumping on the social audio concept first. And, if it continues to roll out new features and focus on more intimate social connections, it will have a chance to carve itself a nice niche in the social media sector.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
45% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jan 2021
$100m
SERIES B
May 2020
$12m
SERIES A
Total funding: $112m
Company benefits
- Flexible vacation
- Great healthcare
- Family leave benefits
- Generous work from home stipend
- Work from anywhere
- Quarterly in-person get togethers
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Paul Davison
(Co-founder & CEO)Was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Benchmark Capital, before founding Highlight, which was acquired by Pinterest. After working as a Pinterest Product Lead for a year, they co-founded Clubhouse in February 2020.
Rohan Seth
(Co-founder)After graduating from Stanford in Computer Science, Rohan worked at Google for 6 years. Also co-founded Memry Labs, which was later acquired by Opendoor, as well as Lydian Accelerator.
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