Senior Data Scientist / Analyst, Product
PolymarketPrediction Markets company
New York, United StatesSenior
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General Catalyst
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Data & AI
About the role
TL;DR
Own product insights end-to-end, defining metrics, designing experiments, and analyzing user behavior.
- •Polymarket is looking for a Senior Data Scientist / Analyst to be the analytical partner to our product team and the person who can say whether what we shipped actually worked.
- •You'll own product insights end-to-end, from defining its success metrics, to designing the experiments that test them, to telling the team what the results mean.
- •This is a role for someone with real product instincts, not just query skills.
- •You'll spend as much time forming hypotheses about why users behave the way they do as you will validating them, and you'll be expected to push back when a feature's numbers don't support the story being told about it.
- •Key Responsibilities Partner with product managers, designers, and engineers as the analytical owner for product Define the metrics that determine whether a feature worked, and be the person willing to say plainly when it did not Design, instrument, and read A/B tests end-to-end Build the funnel and behavioral analyses that explain how users find a market, place a first trade, and come back for the next one Turn user behavior into product direction.
- •Surface where people drop off, what the friction actually is, and what is worth building next Requirements 7+ years in product analytics, data science, or a similar role supporting a consumer or trading product Expert SQL.
- •You can go from raw event tables to a defensible answer without help Deep experimentation experience.
- •You have designed and read A/B tests in production Strong product sense.
- •You can look at a funnel and form a hypothesis about the user behind it, not just describe the number Comfort with ambiguity.
- •You can scope a vague question into a real analysis and defend the assumptions you made along the way
Required skills
SQLPythonRA/B TestingProduct Analytics
Domain expertise
crypto
Benefits & perks
Competitive salary & equity, Unlimited PTO, Full Health, Vision, & Dental coverage, 401k match, Hardware setup: new MacBook Pro, big display, & accessories
Tech stack
SQLPythonR