Data Scientist Product at Confluent

Confluent is pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure focused on data in motion. Have you ever found a new favorite series on Netflix, picked up groceries curbside at Walmart, or paid for something using Square? That’s the power of data in motion in action—giving organizations instant access to the massive amounts of data that is constantly flowing throughout their business. At Confluent, we’re building the foundational platform for this new paradigm of data infrastructure. Our cloud-native offering is designed to be the intelligent connective tissue enabling real-time data, from multiple sources, to constantly stream across the organization. With Confluent, organizations can create a central nervous system to innovate and win in a digital-first world.

We’re looking for self-motivated team members who crave a challenge and feel energized to roll up their sleeves and help realize Confluent’s enormous potential. Chart your own path and take healthy risks as we solve big problems together. We value having diverse teams and want you to grow as we grow—whether you’re just starting out in your career or managing a large team, you’ll be amazed at the magnitude of your impact.


About the Team: 

The mission of the Data team at Confluent is to serve as the central nervous system of all things data for the company: we build analytics infrastructures, metrics, insights, and models, to empower data-driven thinking, and optimize every part of the business. There are limitless opportunities for an ambitious data scientist to make an immediate and meaningful impact within a hyper-growth start-up.

About the Role:

As a thought partner to our product team, you will work closely with product managers, engineers, and designers to define success metrics, design experiments, build visualizations, discover insights and ultimately shape product and company strategy. You will also have the opportunity to interact with Executives and other cross-functional teams to develop and deliver actionable recommendations to drive better and faster decisions. Successful candidates will exhibit technical acumen and business savvy, with a passion for making an impact, through creative storytelling and timely actions. 


What You’ll Do:

Define product success metrics, build/maintain dashboards to monitor the health of our products and understand changes to our KPIs
Partner with Product and Engineering teams to solve problems and identify trends and opportunities by mining massive amounts of data and extracting useful product insights
Design and evaluate experiments
Collaborate with other data scientists across our organization to share best practices, learn new analytical techniques, and champion an organizational culture where data is central to decision making



What We’re Looking For:

Bachelor or advanced degree in a quantitative discipline: statistics, operations research, computer science, informatics, engineering, applied mathematics, economics, etc.
1+ years of experience in data science and analytics
Excellent data manipulation skills, proficiency in SQL. Experience with Python or R is a plus
Experience visualizing data and building dashboards. (eg. Tableau, Metabase, Looker, etc.)
Strong problem solving skills and ability to translate business requirements into analytical questions
A team player who can collaborate with engineers, product managers, marketers and other cross-functional teams
Effectively communicate insights and recommendations to cross-functional partners; ability to synthesize, simplify and explain complex problems to different types of audiences, including executives



What Gives You an Edge:

Experience and/or knowledge in experimental design and applied statistics (i.e. A/B testing) in an industry setting
Experience with developing statistical frameworks to understand users and their behaviors
Experience in a product-focused role at a technology company
Experience identifying, scoping and driving data science projects with cross-functional partners and high business impact





Come As You Are

At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact.

Confluent requires all employees (in office and remote) in the U.S. to be vaccinated for COVID-19. Consistent with federal, state, and local requirements, Confluent will consider requests for reasonable accommodation based on medical conditions/contraindications or sincerely-held religious beliefs where it is able to do so without undue hardship to the company.


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