Senior Data Scientist, Guild Education
$120-140k
+ Stock options
More information about location
Upskilling and education platform for America's workforce
Be an early applicant
Upskilling and education platform for America's workforce
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$120-140k
+ Stock options
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To unlock opportunity for America’s workforce through education and upskilling.
Role
Who you are
- Strong proficiency in SQL and experience with modern data tools (Snowflake, dbt, Databricks, Looker or similar)
- Expertise in experimentation design, causal inference, and statistical rigor
- Ability to define meaningful KPIs and connect them to business outcomes through logical frameworks
- Experience with product analytics tooling (Optimizely, Segment, Fullstory, Amplitude, or similar)
- Strong communication skills—able to craft clear narratives for non-technical stakeholders
- Consultative mindset: you scope requests, push back when needed, and deliver what stakeholders actually need
- Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to structure problems independently
- We are committed to equal pay for equal work and believe in compensation transpare
What the job involves
- Guild's product organization is at an inflection point—and we need a data scientist who can ensure we're building the right things, measuring what matters, and proving impact
- As our Senior Product Analytics Data Scientist, you'll be the strategic analytics partner for Grow Core and Payments Network, with expanding scope into Academy and Navigator
- Your work will directly shape product strategy by ensuring leaders have the insights they need to focus investments on high-return solutions, validate that launches actually drive impact, and create objective accountability across the business
- Without this role, our product and engineering efforts risk operating without understanding how our work affects members and the bottom line. This is your chance to change that
- Proactively influence product strategy and roadmap decisions through narrative insights and recommendations
- Define logical KPI driver trees in partnership with Senior Directors of Product Management that drive aligned incentives
- Own and lead analytical standards for the product organization—driving rigor across experimentation, causal inference, and descriptive analytics using Optimizely, Segment, and Fullstory
- Deliver dashboards and workflows that consistently provide value, articulate performance, and support prioritization decisions
- Consult with stakeholders on the feasibility and scope of reporting requests, enabling self-service whenever possible
- Translate ambiguous questions into concrete analysis with clear narratives for non-technical audiences
- Manipulate and analyze complex datasets using Snowflake, dbt, Databricks, and Looker/Omni
- Partner with Data Engineering to flag data quality issues, request new events/metrics, and define data requirements for existing and new products
- Here are the outcomes you will be expected to achieve:
- Focus product investments on the highest-return solutions by providing actionable insights that inform roadmap prioritization
- Validate that product launches actually drive impact through rigorous experimentation and causal inference
- Create objective measures of accountability by defining and operationalizing KPIs that align business and mission incentives
- Enable a self-sufficient, data-driven product culture where leaders can access the insights they need without bottlenecks
- You are probably a strong candidate for this role if you've accomplished:
- Partnered directly with product leaders to define KPIs and measurement frameworks that shaped roadmap decisions
- Designed and analyzed A/B tests or other causal inference methods that validated (or invalidated) product bets
- Built dashboards or reporting infrastructure that product teams actually used for ongoing decision-making—not one-off analyses
- Translated messy, ambiguous business questions into structured analyses with clear, actionable takeaways
- Identified data quality issues or gaps and worked cross-functionally to resolve them
Our take
The recruitment process can be the most costly element of a company's operation, with future-proof skillsets requirements resulting in the hiring of staff for niche tasks. Many existing employees of a company could have the potential to fill talent gaps and prevent the need for a new hire, but they often lack the training for such roles. Helping to solve this problem, Guild Education helps employers partner with nonprofit universities to train staff across a variety of subject matters, including high school completion programs, vocational opportunities, and enrollment in higher education.
As professional development is a strong employer benefit, Guild Education also pitches itself as a perk for employees, aiming to increase retention and worker satisfaction. By solving two major problems - a skills shortage and worker retention, it has gained large companies such as Chipotle, Target, Hilton and PepsiCo as corporate clients.
The platform has secured some serious funding too. And is using this funding to develop its healthcare and financial services learning modules and increase its offering to workers by exploring new ways to lower the barriers to learning, for instance through childcare solutions and financial wellness tools.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jun 2022
$265m
SERIES F
Jun 2021
$150m
SERIES E
Total funding: $643.5m
Company benefits
- Equity stake in the company providing ownership and a path to future earnings (when we succeed, we all benefit)
- free one-on-one coaching with a certified financial planner, a platform with budgeting tools, investment and equity management center and many more financial resources through Origin (we believe financial literacy not only supports you personally, but also has a lasting impact in creating positive generational wealth practices)
- Employee Assistance Fund for unforeseen crises, disasters, and/or personal hardships and you need a little extra financial support (funded by the company and fellow Guilders to create a community of support)
- legal support and resources to navigate complicated situations like estate planning name changes, immigration, and more
- 401(k) plan with a range of diverse investment options and personalized retirement advice
- Well-rounded wellness benefits including free and low cost mental health resources and financial wellbeing support services
- Education benefits and tuition assistance to help your future development and growth
- Multiple paths to meet educational and professional goals
- Fertility benefits built into all of our medical plans
- A $10,000 family planning fund to take care of costs that aren’t covered by the medical plans like adoption, surrogacy, and egg freezing expenses
- 12-20 weeks of paid leave and a ramp-up program for Guilders to ease back into work after an extended time away
- An additional 3 weeks of paid leave if you are going through the adoption, surrogacy, or foster process to use prior to your child's arrival/placement to prepare and attend necessary meeting
- Inclusive guidance and support as you go through your family planning journey through Cleo
- Our on-site childcare center, The Beehive, offering care for children 3 months-6 years of age for employees and their friends and family members located in Colorado
- Personalized 1:1 support for anyone on the parenthood journey with access to a network of clinicians, experts, and specialists through Cleo
- 80 hours of low cost ($2/hr) emergency backup care for times employees unexpectedly find themselves without primary care for the ones they are responsible for
- Dedicated support in finding background-checked care providers to assist with child care, elder care, and chronic care needs through Helpr
- The ability to bring an actively nursing child and companion on work related trips
- Inclusive, affordable medical and behavioral healthcare when you need it
- Open PTO is available so Guilders can rest, recharge, and bring their best selves to work
- 10 Holidays including a collective week off over the 4th of July plus 5 floating holidays for cultural and religious events you celebrate
- Our leave policies are there to support employees and offer 12 weeks of fully paid medical, non-birthing parent, and caregiving leave as of day one of employment while birthing parents receive 18-20 weeks of fully paid leave
- Once Guilders reach 4.5 years of service, they are eligible for a 5-week fully paid sabbatical leave
- Up to 10 days of bereavement leave
- Up to 10 days of jury duty
- 8 sick days
Company HQ
Central Business District, Denver, CO
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