Senior/Staff Data Scientist

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About the role

  • 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.
  • Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy.
  • Commuter benefits for Renders in the Bay Area.
  • Home office stipends for remote Renders.
  • Continuous learning benefits and related support.
  • Equity offered.

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$195,000 - $268,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

BigQueryCloudSQLGo

Location requirements

RemoteUnited States

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