Data Scientist at Dropbox

Company Description
Dropbox is a leading global collaboration platform that's transforming the way people work together, from the smallest business to the largest enterprise. With more than 500 million registered users across more than 180 countries, our mission is to design a more enlightened way of working. From our headquarters in San Francisco to eight dedicated Studios and a worldwide team of employees who choose where they work best, our Virtual First approach is leading the way into the future of work.
Team Description
Our Product team advocates for our users and our business, setting the vision for our growing family of products. We use data, research, strategy, and empathy to guide multidisciplinary teams toward a common goal, balancing diverse perspectives and empowering our teams to do great work. As we scale globally, there’s plenty of space for you to grow alongside us and simplify life for millions of people around the world in team that always focuses on we, not I, and creates delightful products that are worthy of trust.
Role Description
We're looking for a Data Scientist to partner with revenue, marketing, 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.
Responsibilities
Develop a deep understanding of customer journey phases and key business metricsPerform analytical deep-dives to analyze problems and opportunities, identify the hypothesis and design & execute experimentsInform future experimentation design and roadmaps by performing exploratory analysis to understand user engagement behavior and derive insightsCreate 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 trendsExtract 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 experimentsTranslate complex concepts into implications for the business via excellent communication skills, both verbal and writtenUnderstand what matters most and prioritize ruthlesslyWork 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 field3-5 years experience using analytics to drive key business decisions; examples include business/product/marketing analytics, business intelligence, strategy consultingProven track record of being able to work independently and proactively engage with business stakeholders with minimal directionSignificant experience with SQL and large unstructured datasets such as HadoopDeep understanding of statistical analysis, experimentation design, and common analytical techniques like regression, decision treesSolid background in running multivariate experiments to optimize a product or revenue flowStrong verbal and written communication skillsProficiency in programming/scripting and knowledge of statistical packages like R or Python is a plus
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).