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About the Role
As a Staff Data Scientist on the Experimentation Platform team, you will ensure the statistical soundness of experiments, empower experimenters with rigorous design capabilities, and guide Discord in making optimal business decisions based on experimental results. This role offers significant leadership opportunities within a small, rapidly growing team that directly impacts the strategy and roadmaps for over 90 million daily active users.
Responsibilities
- Formulate the vision and set the roadmap for the Experimentation Platform in partnership with engineering, product, and data science stakeholders.
- Provide statistical expertise to ensure experimentation methodologies and frameworks are sound and aligned with best practices in causal inference and experimental design.
- Partner closely with engineering and product to improve the reliability, scalability, and adoption of experimentation across Discord, including modern AI/LLM tooling.
- Lead initiatives to educate and train cross-functional teams on experimentation design, statistical methodology, and causal inference through workshops, training sessions, and educational materials.
- Empower Discord's Data Science team (50+ members) to adopt more rigorous causal inference methods.
- Lead and conduct original causal inference research on high-priority Discord questions in partnership with the wider Data Science team.
- Engage directly with experimentation customers (data scientists, product managers, and engineers) to ensure the platform enables fast, reliable, data-driven decisions.
Requirements
- Proven experience leading experimentation platform work, including designing and validating statistical methodologies to ensure the accuracy and reliability of experimental results.
- PhD in a quantitative field (e.g., Statistics, Economics, Political Science, Psychology) or equivalent practical experience.
- 4+ years designing, implementing, and analyzing experiments or causal inference projects.
- Ability to critically evaluate and recommend statistical approaches that balance velocity and reliability across a variety of product launches.
- Strong passion for education, with a track record of communicating complex statistical and experimental design concepts to technical and non-technical audiences and fostering a culture of data literacy.
- Demonstrated experience in developing and delivering training programs or educational content related to experimentation, causal inference, or statistical analysis, with a track record of fostering a culture of data literacy within an organization.
- Proficient with Python, SQL, R, and/or other statistical programming languages.
Skills
- Experimentation platform leadership
- Statistical methodology design and validation
- Causal inference
- Experimental design
- AI/LLM tooling
- Data literacy
- Python
- SQL
- R
- Statistical programming languages
- Literature reviews
- Cross-functional project leadership
- Influencing cross-functional partners
- AI/LLM tools for causal inference workflows
- Gaming
Location
- San Francisco Bay Area
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 4+ years designing, implementing, and analyzing experiments or causal inference projects
Education Level
- PhD in a quantitative field (e.g., Statistics, Economics, Political Science, Psychology) or equivalent practical experience
Salary/Compensations
- $279,000 to $310,000
Benefits
- Equity
- Benefits
About the Company
- Discord has a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users who use the platform for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does: play video games.
- Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, and we are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games.
- Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests, and helps developers build and grow their businesses. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission!
Equal Opportunity
- Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process. We want you to feel set up for success, so if you are in need of reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know.
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