**About Brilliant**Brilliant is a tight-knit team of scientists, educators, engineers, designers, storytellers, and illustrators who are redesigning education at scale.We believe that math and science are fascinating and beautiful, but that the tools widely used to teach it are dry and ineffective. Brilliant makes learning STEM fun, through problem solving and interactive explorations - from foundational math and science to cutting-edge computer science and professional topics.Brilliant helps over 12 million students, professionals, and lifelong learners around the world cultivate problem solving skills, build intuition, and master concepts rather than memorize them. To understand more about our approach, see our learning principles.**Application Note**We encourage anyone from non-traditional backgrounds to apply, so please, don't sweat the requirements lists too much! Please be sure to either leave a note **or** a cover letter that touches on your interest in Brilliant and why you feel you'd be a great fit for this position.**The Role**As a **Senior Data Scientist **at Brilliant, you will drive product and business decisions through deep analytical insights and rigorous measurement. You will become an expert on our customers and product, empowering data-informed decision making in key initiatives. Above all, you'll help us develop the correct frameworks for understanding and accelerating the company's growth.**You are confident about...**:- Your ability to thrive in a fast-paced, often ambiguous work environment- Using data to make recommendations based on your findings- Working fast by default to produce actionable results in O(days) versus O(weeks), and slowing down when you sense elevated risk of a bad decision- Managing timelines efficiently and communicating when deadlines are at risk**You are exceptional at...**:- Using advanced SQL for analysis and can leverage Python or R as needed- Analyzing consumer products, usage patterns, and funnels; experience with digital consumer products or gaming is highly desired- Storytelling by transforming data into effective and impactful visual insights (Tableau, Hex, Google Sheets)- Managing and prioritizing multiple work streams- Communicating (verbal, written, and presentations) and ability to establish relationships**You are enthusiastic about...**:- Working cross-functionally with various business and engineering stakeholders- Contextualizing data to drive a deep understanding of Brilliant's product and customers- Working relatively autonomously in a small team to produce big results- Seepening the "data + intuition" culture across the company- Taking initiative, being proactive, sharing ideas, and challenging the status quo**Your responsibilities**:- Analyze large, complex event data representing millions of user interactions to address strategic and operational business questions- Build data products and analytical frameworks that facilitate understanding of key business metrics and users' experience- Provide actionable insights and recommendations from experiment data to shape new features and future product roadmap- Work closely with product, content, and engineering to derive insights that will drive towards monetization and retention improvements- Contribute to our data pipeline and analytics infrastructure by building curated data models in Snowflake and dbt$155,000 - $195,000 a year- We use a systematic compensation framework. Salary scales are set each year for each job vertical, based on market data and company budget. Independently, managers level folks on their team, and those levels are mapped formulaically to our compensation scales.Additional, we always make First and Best Offers - there is no negotiation (for new hires nor our existing teammates). This ensures that people are paid based on their expected contribution, rather than their negotiation skills.**Why join Brilliant?**Brilliant has a mission you can get behind. We're a company that's helping to bring learners from all over the world together and create a platform on which they can excel, learn, and contribute.We also offer:- Competitive compensation- Medical, dental, and vision benefits - we pay 100% of the premiums- Equipment budget for computer and peripherals- Free lunch- Weekly happy hour- Flexible vacation time- Fully-stocked pantry and refrigerator with snacks and drinks- Sponsorship for conferences and professional development- A stimulating work environment and a chance to change the world
