Senior Data Scientist, Goodnotes
12 months fixed term contract
£80-100k
+ Equity
Top-rated note-taking app
Open for applications
Top-rated note-taking app
201-500 employees
Open for applications
£80-100k
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower people with knowledge through digital paper and innovations. We're reimagining what productivity looks like through a digital pen and paper!
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years of experience in data science and analytics space
- Hands-on experience in defining and analyzing large, complex datasets, finding actionable business solutions to loosely defined revenue and operations problems
- Proven stakeholder management expertise. Gifted at explaining your findings clearly to a non-technical audience and excited by helping your team and stakeholders develop KPIs and self-serve dashboards
- Technically proficient with relevant analytics tools (dbt, modern BI tools) and languages (SQL, Python or R)
- Deep expertise in designing and analyzing rigorous experiments of varying degrees of complexity. This includes mastery of A/B test design, as well as understanding of peeking techniques and multi-armed bandit
- Combine your strong business acumen with statistical expertise (e.g. confidence intervals, regression modeling, significance testing), including demonstrated experience with common machine learning techniques for deep data mining and exploration (e.g. predictive modeling, time series modeling, classification, and clustering techniques)
- Deep care about the details and high-quality instrumentation that lead to high-quality, impactful insights
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to think critically
- Desire to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
What the job involves
- You will join a distributed team across Europe and Asia focusing specifically on delivering insights and analytics to uncover new strategic opportunities, drive faster user-centric decisions, and make Goodnotes's products smarter
- We are seeking an experienced and passionate data scientist to work in the Insights team. You will be working alongside Data Analysts and Data Engineers to deliver insights to a variety of stakeholders, from Product to Marketing
- You will lead experimentation efforts as well as deep dives, user’s behavior modeling, KPIs forecasting and insights democratization at Goodnotes
- Analyze user behavior to find and explain novel drivers of key outcomes, such as activation, engagement, upgrades, and churn
- Drive proactive analysis/research into high-potential green fields
- Ensure all teams have insight to data and can answer their own first-order questions
- Develop data literacy programs and provide easy-to-use tools with clear documentation, examples, and tutorials
- Improve our experimentation practices by leading change on tooling, infrastructure and design; expanding its use cases, owning documentation and advocating usage among technical and non technical stakeholders
- Perform basic ETL tasks to model new dimensions and facts in our data lakehouse
Application process
- An introductory call with someone from our talent acquisition team. They want to hear more about your background, what you are looking for, and why you’d like to join Goodnotes
- Take-home Assignment
- Technical interview: A technical call with 2-3 analysts. We will go through your take-home submission and a few other questions You will have the chance to ask any questions you may have
- Hiring Manager interview: A call with your hiring manager. This is the person who will be managing you day to day, working on your growth and development with you as well as support you throughout your career at Goodnotes
- Panel interview – A meet the team call with 2 or 3 GoodPeople you’d be working closely with at Goodnotes
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Goodnotes is a digital note-taking tool for handwritten notes and (formerly) paper-based information. Thanks to its signature vector ink engine, the app delivers a precise and natural writing experience. It can read handwriting and allow users to search it, as well as convert it to text for easy sharing into other apps or even web pages. Goodnotes also supports importing, searching, and navigation through PDF, PowerPoint, Word, image files, and more.
The platform is available across iPhone, iPad and Mac. One of the leading note-taking solutions on the App Store (with over 14,000 positive reviews) it competes with apps like Notability and Paper by WeTransfer. Founded in Hong Kong, Goodnotes now operates across the UK with over 80 employees, working on building additional products alongside its core app.
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Focus on employee wellbeing
"Company cares about each and everyones wellbeing. A monthly budget is provided for everyone to take care of their physical and mental wellbeing. You..."
Funding (1 round)
Jun 2020
$6m
SEED
Total funding: $6m
Company benefits
- Meaningful equity options in a fast-growing company
- Monthly budget for personal growth development & yearly budget for professional development
- Monthly health & wellness budget - used for gyms, massages, treatments etc.
- MacBook Pro/your choice of hardware
- Flexible working hours and remote working opportunities
- Annual offsite
- Noise cancelling headphones
- Work from home budget to upgrade your home office
- 30 days holiday (plus public holidays)
- Health insurance for you and dependants
Company values
- Dream big
- Be user obsessed
- Build great things
- Operate as an owner
- Win like a sports team
- Learn and grow fast
- Share our passion
Company HQ
London, UK
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Leadership
Steven Chan
(Founder & CEO)Goodnotes was created from Steven's frustration with taking readable and reusable handwritten notes on his first iPad. Since then, the company has grown to millions of happy users.
Paul Onnen
(Senior Vice President of Engineering)Paul loves building things that help make people's lives better and they are using this experience to help Goodnotes be successful as we continue to grow.
Minh Tran
(COO)Minh is a seasoned people and business leader who is obsessed with searching for the world’s best talent and building winning teams that are highly skilled, innovative, and passionate.
Rowena Chung
(Director of Product)Rowena leads product discovery and strategy across Goodnotes' product group. She is committed to understanding the users’ needs and enhancing their productivity and experience with the app.
People progressing
Bret joined Goodnotes in 2018 as a senior software engineer. In 2023 he was promoted to a principal engineer.
Joined Goodnotes in 2021 as a Senior ML engineer and is now a Senior Engineering Manager, leading a product team to build an incredible AI productivity experience impacting millions of users.
Cam joined Goodnotes as a Senior Brand Designer and 3 years later became our Global Brand Design Lead!
Rammy joined Goodnotes as a Senior QA Engineer in December 2019, transitioned to QA lead after 2.5 years and again to QA manager after 4 months
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Goodnotes
Vivien Ko (People Ops Manager)
- We are a team of c 270, from 39 different countries... and still growing
- We believe diverse teams create better outcomes for users, teams, and businesses
- Learn more about one of our Female Directors https://www.goodnotes.com/blog/rowena-product-manager
- We know there's still a lot more we need to do - and we want you to be part of helping us on our DE&I journey!
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