Senior Data Scientist, Marketing

Key Skills

Java Programming, Python Programming, Scala Programming, Data science techniques, Data Analytics, Statistical modeling

Job Description

Hi, we’re DuckDuckGo, the Internet privacy company for everyone who's had enough of hidden online tracking and wants to take back their privacy now. For over a decade, we've been building our product, including new privacy technology, and working with policymakers to make online privacy simple and accessible for all.

Our app is now downloaded more than 50M times a year, and our private search engine packaged with it has become the #2 search engine on mobile in the U.S., Canada, Australia and the Netherlands. Oh, and we've been profitable since 2014 with revenue currently exceeding $100 million a year! Now we’re rolling out major new features, such as Email Protection and App Tracking Protection, and we’re also working on a desktop browser version of our app for Windows and macOS.

We’re looking for a Marketing Data Scientist to help shape our all-in-one privacy solution and join our mission to show the world that protecting your privacy online can be simple.

The Opportunity

In this role You will bring a data science perspective to marketing campaigns to ensure we design tests optimally to gain statistically valid strategic insight. You will also improve, streamline, and apply our methods for analyzing data to assess the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns.

What You Will Bring to DuckDuckGo

1. Ability to lead and collaborate on high-impact and complex projects from proposal through post-mortem.
2. Skills to wrangle vague problems, propose innovative solutions, and execute them with a strong focus on metrics.
3. Significant experience with data science with a focus on analytics.
4. Experience with statistical modelling and time series analysis
5. Experience designing experiments and interpreting results.
6. Experience with marketing campaigns
7. Comfortable working with internal funnel and usage data as well as survey-type metrics and ability to combine and synthesize takeaways across data sets.
8. Experience with segmentation and ability to tease out insights from large and sometimes ambiguous data sets and translate into hypothesis and media recommendations
9. Creative and curious, innate desire to pose questions of the data and seek novel findings that can help direct the company's strategy.
10. Enjoys working independently and collaboratively with agencies, media planners, media strategists, user insights and product experts etc.

How We Will Support You

Our core values -- build trust, question assumptions, and validate direction -- underpin how we work day-to-day and the support we give our team members. We strive to empower our team members to be self-directed and self-motivated in their work.

• Remote First, Always: We've always been a fully distributed company with team members all over the world. We trust you to get your work done wherever, whenever.

• Commitment to Personal Growth:Every team member has an annual budget of $1,250 USD to invest in their professional development. Every team member also has a dedicated Career Advisor, who serves as a guide to help you develop your strengths, identify your motivations, and understand your opportunities for growth.

• Leadership:We have many different types of leaders and possible combinations of leadership roles, so you can grow your career in a way that aligns best with your personal goals. You can seek additional leadership roles by being directly responsible for projects, taking ownership of areas of the company, developing and maintaining internal processes, or pursuing advisory roles.

• Work/Life Balance: Team members have the freedom and flexibility to organize their own work schedules. We want you to thrive both in and out of the office. We trust you to use good judgment and take the time off that you need to bring your best self to work.

We also offer paid parental leave, a co-working stipend, office setup reimbursement, and a wellness stipend. More support resources can be found in our, Team Member Support Guide, which?explains how we make your well-being a priority.

For more information on how we collaborate worldwide, from leadership in our relatively flat organization to start-to-finish ownership, check out DuckDuckGo Culture: How We Work.

Compensation

Annual compensation: $160,000 USD and stock options.