Staff Data Scientist, Patreon
Ecosystem
$223.2-334.8k
+ Equity
More information about location
2 days a week in office
Funding platform for creatives
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Funding platform for creatives
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$223.2-334.8k
+ Equity
More information about location
2 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Patreon's mission is to power creators to do what they love, and get paid by the people who love what they do.
Role
Who you are
- You have a wealth of experience helping product teams make great decisions with data
- You are an experimentation expert and possess a very strong statistical inference skillset
- You have solid analytical thinking. You ask the right questions and strive to see beyond the numbers to understand what an analysis represents in terms of real-world applications
- You have experience making tradeoffs between speed and accuracy
- You are a SQL expert and have experience in Python or R to perform statistical analyses and build machine learning models
- You have a track record of building strong relationships with product, engineering, research, and design teammates
- You have a growth mindset and aspire to continuously improve your soft and technical skills
- You are an expert communicator with a love for clarity and simplicity
What the job involves
- In the Ecosystem Data Scientist role, you will conduct analyses that cut across the business to provide insights that inform company-level and team-level strategy
- You’ll conduct quantitative research to inform product and company level strategy, design metrics to help track goals and make decisions, devise learning methods (including experiments) to test hypotheses, build models to optimize our business and work closely with our machine learning and data engineering teams on building MVP user-facing data products
- You'll translate data into actionable insights and communicate your technical work to the data team, your cross-functional partners, executive leadership, and the rest of the company
- You’ll be a cultural and technical leader on the data science team
Our take
Creatives face two major struggles in the online space: getting eyes (or ears) on their work, and getting paid for it. Patreon was founded to solve both problems with a platform that would provide a space for creators to host and promote their work, and offer supporters a way to show their support through a regular paid subscription.
Patreon has been a leader in the content subscription space since its founding, but recently has come under pressure from newer rivals such as Substack and Ko-fi. It has maintained its position by shifting its focus from being primarily a marketplace for supporters to find creatives that interest them to being a toolbox for content creators to promote their work. While the site's creatives value this approach it remains to be seen whether Patreon will be able to return to the growth it was enjoying in previous years.
Despite the inroads made by competitors and a troubling global economic outlook making finances tougher for content creators and their supporters, Patreon is still a leader in its space, with over its over 250,000 active creators having made $3.5 billion through the platform. It is going through a period of downsizing to focus on its core business, and is continuing to hire talent to improve its product and expand its marketing efforts.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
49% female employees
40% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Apr 2021
$155m
SERIES F
Sep 2020
$90m
SERIES E
Total funding: $352.1m
Company benefits
- Gym membership
- Commuter stipend
- Training budget
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
- Stock options
- 401k
Company values
- Build with care
- Think big, but start small
- Guide & empower
- Respect the value of creators’ work
- Honor the relationship between creators and patrons
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Jack Conte
(CEO)Graduated from Stanford with a degree in Music. Created musical content on Youtube as Pomplamoose before founding Patreon.
Sam Yam
(CTO)Worked in analytics and engineering roles at Yahoo, Ning and Loopt. Previously founded mobile advertising company AdWhirl, which was acquired by Google.
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