Senior/Staff Data Scientist shaping metrics, experimentation, and analytics foundations for Render’s developer cloud platform. Partnering across product and business teams to drive data-informed decisions.
Responsibilities
Serve as a strategic analytics partner to leaders and cross-functional partners across Product, Engineering, Growth, Go-to-Market, Finance, and other teams.
Identify high-impact questions, frame decisions, and determine how success should be measured.
Define KPIs and measurement frameworks for acquisition, activation, adoption, engagement, retention, conversion, expansion, and customer outcomes.
Surface patterns across users, customers, products, and the business.
Identify opportunities, diagnose friction, and help determine investments and priorities.
Design and analyze experiments, develop guardrail metrics, and evaluate initiatives.
Define instrumentation and measurement plans for new products, programs, and initiatives.
Build and maintain dbt models, semantic layers, and context layers with Analytics Engineering.
Transform behavioral and business data into reliable datasets supporting decision-making across Render.
Establish analytical best practices and improve data-driven decision-making.
Mentor scientists and cross-functional partners on measurement, experimentation, and data literacy.
Explore AI-assisted tools to make analytics faster and more accessible while maintaining accuracy and analytical judgment.
Requirements
7+ years of analytics experience.
Track record of shaping strategy and influencing decisions across complex or ambiguous problem spaces.
Strong business and product judgment.
Experience defining and using metrics across Product, Growth, Go-to-Market, Finance, or other business domains.
Strong SQL skills, including writing complex, efficient SQL and independently exploring large datasets.
Experience using experimentation, statistical analysis, or other rigorous evaluation methods to understand impact.
Experience with modern analytics tooling such as Metabase, Mixpanel, dbt, BigQuery, Segment, and Git.
Track record of influencing cross-functional teams and senior leaders without direct authority.
Excellent communication skills, including explaining technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
Experience using AI-assisted coding or analytics tools such as Codex, Cursor, or Claude Code.
Expertise in statistical methods beyond traditional A/B testing is a nice-to-have.
Experience with developer-focused, product-led, sales-led, or usage-based businesses is a nice-to-have.
Knowledge of cloud infrastructure, PaaS, developer tooling, or other technically complex products is a nice-to-have.
Experience analyzing multi-product or multi-segment businesses is a nice-to-have.
Generally not eligible for new visa sponsorship; existing visa transfers may be sponsored at Render's discretion, subject to business authorization.
Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States of America.
Benefits
4 weeks of paid vacation.
14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents to bond with a newly born, adopted, or fostered child.
Long-term disability insurance.
Life insurance.
401K plans.
100% employer-paid medical coverage for you and a dependent.
99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage for you and a dependent.
FSAs and HSAs are available.
Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health and therapy, hobbies, etc.
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