Staff, Data Scientist

Role Description

We're looking for a Staff, Data Scientist to partner with engineering and product teams to answer key questions about how to grow revenue, optimize product, scale and monetize the business, and launch high-impact initiatives.

We solve challenging problems and boost business growth through a deep understanding of user behaviors with applied analytics techniques and business insights.

An ideal candidate should have robust knowledge of consumer lifecycle and behavior analysis, customer segmentation, digital campaigns, monetization analytics and business operations for a SaaS company.

Please note, Dropbox is currently only authorized to hire candidates from the following provinces : Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario, and Saskatchewan.

Responsibilities

• Develop a deep understanding of customer journey phases and key business metrics
• Perform analytical deep-dives to analyze problems and opportunities, identify the hypothesis and design & execute experiments
• Inform future experimentation design and roadmaps by performing exploratory analysis to understand user engagement behavior and derive insights
• Create personalized segmentation strategies leveraging propensity models to enable targeting of offers and experiences based on user attributes
• Identify key trends and build automated reporting & executive-facing dashboards to track the progress of acquisition, monetization, and engagement trends.
• Extract actionable insights through analyzing large, complex, multi-dimensional customer behavior data sets
• Monitor and analyze a high volume of experiments designed to optimize the product for user experience and revenue & promote best practices for multivariate experiments
• Translate complex concepts into implications for the business via excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Understand what matters most and prioritize ruthlessly
• Work with cross-functional teams (including Data Science, Marketing, Product, Engineering, Design, User Research, and senior executives) to rapidly execute and iterate

Requirements

• Bachelors’ or above in quantitative discipline : Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• 8-10+ years experience using analytics to drive key business decisions; examples include business / product / marketing analytics, business intelligence, strategy consulting
• Proven track record of being able to work independently and proactively engage with business stakeholders with minimal direction
• Significant experience with SQL and large unstructured datasets such as Hadoop
• Deep understanding of statistical analysis, experimentation design, and common analytical techniques like regression, decision trees
• Solid background in running multivariate experiments to optimize a product or revenue flow
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Proficiency in programming / scripting and knowledge of statistical packages like R or Python is a plus

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced scripting language experience : R / Python
• Superior skills with Tableau
• Experience with predictive modeling based strategies
• Experience in handling large data sets and relational databases

Total Rewards

Canada Pay Range$175,100 $236,900 CAD

The range listed above is the expected annual salary / OTE for this role, subject to change.

Salary / OTE is just one component of Dropbox’s total rewards package. All regular employees are also eligible for the corporate bonus program or a sales incentive (target included in OTE) as well as stock in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).

Dropbox is a Virtual First company and is open to hiring candidates in all authorized locations. However, for this role, the locations posted are preferred.

Benefits

Dropbox is committed to investing in the holistic health and wellbeing of all Dropboxers and their families. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to :

• Competitive medical, dental and vision coverage*
• Retirement Savings through a defined contribution pension or savings plan
• Dropbox provides a Flexible PTO Policy in addition to your statutory holidays allowing you to unplug, unwind, and refresh
• Dropbox also provides exclusive additional paid time off for all FTE employees across the Globe, in addition to any relevant statutory holidays
• Protection Plans including Life and Disability Insurance*
• A Perks Allowance to be used on what matters most to you, whether that’s wellness, learning and development, food & groceries, and much more
• Parental benefits including; Parental Leave, Fertility Benefits, Adoptions and Surrogacy support, and Lactation support

Additional benefits details are available upon request.

Where group plans are not available, allowances are provided

Benefit, amount, and type are dependent on geographical location, based upon applicable law or company policy

Dropbox is an equal opportunity employer. We are a welcoming place for everyone, and we do our best to make sure all people feel supported and connected at work.

A big part of that effort is our support for members and allies of internal groups like Asians at Dropbox, BlackDropboxers, Latinx, Pridebox (LGBTQ), Vets at Dropbox, Women at Dropbox, ATX Diversity (based in Austin, Texas) and the Dropbox Empowerment Network (based in Dublin, Ireland).