Data Scientist

$200,000 - $230,000/Yr

Perplexity AI - San Francisco, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

San Francisco, CA

About the position

As an early member of the Data Science team at Perplexity, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the direction of our product and company. This position offers the opportunity to join a fast-growing startup and help define the data science function, contributing to our mission of becoming the world's most knowledge-centric company by reshaping the future of search and technology.

Responsibilities

• Develop data-driven insights from user behavior to inform our product roadmap and accelerate adoption
• Come up with hypotheses and validate them by designing, running, and analyzing A/B tests
• Figure out the right metrics and visualizations to track and implement them in dashboards, from features to company-wide
• Work closely with other functions, such as engineering, product, growth, GTM, design, and user research
• Build tables to make analysis more efficient and make data more accessible

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience working as a data scientist or related role
• Experienced working at a fast-growing company working on consumer and/or growth
• SQL expertise
• Extensive A/B testing experience
• Experience building dashboards using BI tools (ex: Omni, Mode, Hex, Looker or similar tools)
• Self-starter and take ownership of your work end-to-end
• Comfortable with open-ended problems
• Experience with data modeling

Nice-to-haves

• Experience as one of the first data scientists at an early/growth stage company
• Have data engineering and/or analytics engineering experience (ideally with dbt)
• Experience with one or more area: ads, enterprise sales, search, large language models
• Experience working with user research to blend qualitative and quantitative insights
• Experience with Snowflake (especially as an admin)
• Python experience
• ML experience

Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
• 401(k) plan
• Equity as part of the total compensation package