Discord is looking for a Data Scientist to join the Performance Data Science team, where you’ll play a critical role in making sure that Discord just works for our users. You’ll partner closely with the teams that design, build, and support Discord - improving app performance, enhancing the user experience, and driving user growth. If you’re passionate about data and eager to make a real impact, we’d love to hear from you!

What you'll be doing

Partner with teams throughout Discord through the full lifecycle of data analytics from ideation and exploratory analysis, to building dashboards and reports, and A/B testing
Define KPIs and diagnostic metrics that help improve the user experience, encapsulating these measures in clean crisp dashboards that provide the company with timely and actionable information
Use our amazing infrastructure to quickly and easily build custom data sets to monitor novel product features and processes
Proactively socialize insights, dashboards, and reports with technical and non-technical audiences, soliciting feedback on where to improve
Be a champion of A/B testing and help groups throughout the company design, analyze, and interpret A/B tests correctly
Collaborate with data and engineering teams to design scalable and future-proof instrumentation

What you should have

3+ years of experience autonomously translating ambiguous business problems into deep informative insights through hands-on analytics
3+ years of experience building performant dashboards using Tableau, Looker, or similar software - with proficiency in designing clean crisp visualizations
2+ years experience writing excellent SQL
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complicated findings or technical approaches in easy-to-understand ways
2+ years of experience in the design, analysis, and interpretation of A/B tests in a large data environment
A desire to work with amazing, passionate people who care deeply about solving challenging problems to improve Discord
Last but not least - a collaborative attitude and a healthy dose of natural curiosity!

Bonus Points

Passion for Discord or online communities
Experience with technical leadership, being the point person for one or more stakeholder groups
Experience with analytics for social media or international subscription-based online services, including familiarity with concepts such as social graphs, LTV analysis, funnel analysis, etc.
Experience in the performance and reliability space of online applications
Experience writing performant code in BigQuery SQL
Experience with writing production ETL
Experience leveraging AI for data science

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $160,000 to $180,000 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits.

Data Scientist, Analytics - Performance