Data Scientist

Saturn Technologies - Data Scientist 

At Saturn, we’re on a mission to build community around the calendar. We’re starting in high school and help tens of thousands of users manage their time and stay better connected with friends. The majority of our users are active daily. We’ve raised more than $44 million in funding from General Catalyst, Insight Partners, Coatue, Jeff Bezos, Marc Benioff, and other top venture investors. If you’re looking to drive a major impact on an energetic and ambitious team, come join us!

To learn more about Saturn’s offerings on iOS, Android, and Web, visit joinsaturn.com.   About the Role:   As a founding data team member at Saturn, you will have outsized influence in steering the company’s direction and establishing data practices and infrastructure. We’re looking for seasoned and energetic broad-skilled data scientists who can range from impactful, opinionated business analysis to developing impactful data software.   Key Responsibilities and Expectations: 

• Ensuring partner teams are organized around the right operational metrics
• Advancing the company through insightful analysis and research
• Driving optimization through experimentation and machine learning
• Contributing to data infrastructure and team best practices to increase velocity

Example Workstreams: 

• Evaluating which features and tactics are predictive of high schools' growth
• Evaluating feature launches and usage
• Developing a share/invite contact suggestions ranker
• Developing our dbt model and automated reporting functionality
• Optimizing ad spend

Candidate Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience in data science, quantitative research, and/or analytics
• Deep experience and second-nature fluency in: SQL, Python, Applied statistics and causal inference, and machine learning methods
• Strong product and business sense and opinions
• The ability to communicate complex ideas crisply
• A team-first mentality and a leader and teacher to peers
• An impatient bias for action

This position has an estimated annual salary range of $160,000 to $200,000, not including bonus, commission and equity. This position also comes with full benefits and stock options. Actual compensation packages are based on a wide array of factors unique to reach candidates, including but not limited to demonstrated skill set, years and depth of relevant experience, and some role-dependent factors. We welcome direct conversations with each candidate about compensation in all of our initial calls.

Saturn celebrates and embraces having a diverse team. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of experiences, backgrounds, and skills. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.