Data Scientist, Product 1210 views

Data Scientist, Product

Slack is looking for experienced data scientists to join their Product Analytics team and help drive the understanding, growth, and success of Slack. You’ll have deep technical skills and a real passion for helping Slack make data-informed decisions. You’ll be fearless, independent, and excited about having a big impact in a growing team.

You will partner closely with their Product and Engineering team to craft narratives, find insights, and provide recommendations. Data scientists are embedded in their Product teams to drive data-informed product development, and to work closely with other cross-functional teams such as Data Engineering & Business Intelligence.

Slack has a positive, diverse, and supportive culture—they look for people who are curious, inventive, and work to be a little better every single day. In their work together they aim to be smart, humble, hardworking and, above all, collaborative. If this sounds like a good fit for you, why not say hello?

What You Will Be Doing

• • Use data to influence the direction of team roadmaps and inform business decisions
  • Deepen their understanding of their product, their users, and their business through data
  • Work with partner teams to define goals and identify metrics that describe their product through data
  • Inspire self-serve data use by building dashboards and reports to drive awareness and understanding of metrics
  • Partner with Data Engineering and IT to author and develop core data sets that empower operational and exploratory analyses
  • Work cross-functionally to develop common practices and team playbooks for data science at Slack

What You Should Have

• • 6+ years of professional industry experience doing quantitative analysis
  • A proven track record of using analysis to impact key business or product decisions
  • The ability to clearly and effectively communicate the results of complex analyses
  • Experience writing production datasets in SQL/Hive OR building internal/production data tools for ETL, experimentation, or exploration in a scripting language (Python, R, etc.)
  • A deep understanding of basic statistical applications and methods (experimentation, probabilities, regression)
  • Experience in software engineering, data engineering, consulting, or academic research a plus

Slack is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participant in the U.S. Federal E-Verify program. Women, minorities, individuals with disabilities and protected veterans are encouraged to apply. Slack will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

Slack is a layer of the business technology stack that brings together people, data, and applications – a single place where people can effectively work together, find important information, and access hundreds of thousands of critical applications and services to do their best work. From global Fortune 100 companies to corner markets, businesses and teams of all kinds use Slack to bring the right people together with all the right information. Slack is headquartered in San Francisco, CA and has ten offices around the world. For more information on how Slack makes teams better connected, visit slack.com.

Ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace where they learn from each other is core to Slack’s values. They welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. They are an equal opportunity employer and a pleasant and supportive place to work.

Come do the best work of your life here at Slack.