Senior Data Scientist

SENIOR DATA SCIENTIST

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Peerspace is the leading and category defining online marketplace for venue rentals for meetings, productions, and events. We open doors to the most inspiring spaces around the world, from lofts and mansions to storefronts and studios. Over $500M has been transacted through the platform, and our investors include GV (Google Ventures) and Foundation Capital.

Our people are the heart of Peerspace. We are a team that values inclusion and working cross functionally. Our strategy and objectives are clear and we support one another to exceed expectations. We believe that a healthy company culture creates an environment where people are excited to come into work everyday and contribute to building a successful organization.

The Role

We are looking for a senior data scientist to partner with our PED (Product, Engineering, Design) teams and our diverse business units to help them understand our users, our product performance and our marketplace as a whole. This role sits on our Analytics team and will report directly to the Head of Analytics.

The ideal candidate:

Has a strong interest in using data to understand and address business and user problems

Can manage a diverse set of stakeholders and drive cross-functional alignment on analytical priorities

Is curious about how users engage with a product, and what this might mean for what the business should build or prioritize next

Is self motivated and can unblock themselves when the perfect dataset isn’t readily available or the business question isn’t clearly articulated

Dives deeply into ambiguous questions, and refines them into clear problem statements that address what the business really cares about or what really matters to our users

Responsibilities:

Work closely with PED to set goals, understand how users are engaging with our product, and learn from experiments in our two-sided marketplace

Develop measurement frameworks and institute new metrics or reporting systems to help us understand our marketplace and users

Align cross-functional stakeholders on the priorities and analytical roadmap for critical areas of our business

Design and analyze experiments

Dive deep on user behavior and the dynamics of our marketplace

Unpack business trends and diagnose drivers of business performance

Collaborate with the rest of the Analytics and Data Engineering teams and the broader data community to grow and nurture data culture at Peerspace

Technical Environment:

• Databases: Google BigQuery

• Tooling: dbt Cloud, Airflow, Git

• BI Tool: Tableau, Statsig (for A/B testing)

• Languages: SQL, Python

Qualifications:

5+ years of experience in data science, product analytics, or similar functions

Strong SQL skills and comfort working with large datasets

Experience building visualizations with Tableau, Looker or similar BI platforms

Proficient in communicating insights to business partners

Ability to manage cross-functional stakeholders and prioritize an analytics roadmap in a dynamic environment with competing priorities

Experience applying statistics and experiment design in a business context

Experience in at least one data-oriented language like Python, R or Julia

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative or technical field (e.g., Statistics, Economics, Math, Computer Science, Engineering)

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with another two-sided marketplace

Experience applying causal inference, predictive modeling or other advanced statistical methods in a business context

Working At Peerspace

The annual salary range for this role is $165,000 to $175,000. The actual salary amount will vary depending on the applicant’s experience, skills, and abilities as well as internal equity and market data.

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