Principal Data Scientist
skoolPortland (ME)
Principal Data Scientist
Posted 5 days ago
skoolPortland (ME)
SENIORITY
Senior
About the role
Skool is hiring its first ever Data Scientist. You’ll join our Data team, report to our Head of Data, and help shape how data science is used across the company. This is a hands-on role for someone who wants to grow a consumer product by building new ways for users to discover the right communities and people, including feed, search, recommendations, and matchmaking, and by testing what drives engagement and growth. One of our biggest areas of focus is helping users find the right communities and people on Skool. You’ll help us build and improve that experience through recommendations, ranking, and personalization, while also partnering closely with Product, Growth, and Engineering on engagement, activation, retention, and advertising. We’re looking for someone who can dig into ambiguous problems, find the real opportunity, and turn analysis into action. This is a 100% remote position. Skool has an office in Los Angeles, but we work as a distributed team.
What you’ll do:
- Build models and algorithms for feed, recommendation, ranking, and search to help users discover relevant communities and people
- Own data science work across growth, product, and user engagement, from analysis through measured results
- Use real-time data to find opportunities, test ideas quickly, and refine models based on outcomes
- Develop predictive models for activation, retention, and other key funnels
- Design and run experiments, analyze results, and turn findings into clear product and business decisions
- Partner with Growth to test and improve advertising, including measuring its impact on acquisition and engagement
What we’re looking for:
- You have deep data science experience and a track record of using analysis, experiments, and models to grow a consumer product
- You have hands-on experience building recommendation, matchmaking, ranking, search, or personalization systems
- You have a strong foundation in machine learning and statistical modeling using tools such as Python and scikit-learn
- You favor quick action and experimentation over long analysis and can build enough conviction in your work to bet on itYou are comfortable managing real budget, being wrong, learning quickly, and making the next bet
- You can own ambiguous problems, decide what matters, and move without waiting for permission
- You are strong at data analysis and tool-agnostic. You care about accurate results and business impact more than a specific stack
- You can write enough production-quality code to implement or partner closely on real-time solutions when offline analysis isn’t enough
Bonus:
You have hands-on experience optimizing advertising, acquisition, or other performance marketing systems Why join Skool? Over 30M users, 150K communities, $1B in creator revenue + already profitable (!)Fast-growing, mission-driven company with a focus on education and community We’re a small, collaborative team that likes to have fun while prioritizing balance Remote-first, industry-leading compensation, fully covered medical, dental, and vision insurance (including dependents), 401(k) matching, and more!
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