[Hiring] Senior Staff Data Scientist @Netlify

Role Description

Netlify’s Data team helps the company understand and improve the full product-led growth journey, from activation and engagement through conversion, retention, and monetization. We’re hiring a Senior Staff Data Scientist to deepen how data shapes our product and growth strategy.

• Own the analytical understanding of Netlify’s PLG performance across activation, engagement, conversion, monetization, and retention, identifying opportunities before they become requests.
• Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to turn behavioral insights into product bets, defining what to test, how to measure it, and what the results mean.
• Lead experimentation from hypothesis through decision, including study design, methodology, success metrics, guardrails, analysis, and recommendations.
• Apply statistical rigor where it matters while recognizing when there is enough signal to make a decision and move forward.
• Build scalable analytical systems like semantic models, trusted metrics, proactive monitoring, and AI-powered agents that surface opportunities without waiting to be asked.
• Use AI to investigate faster, automate recurring analytical work, and test more hypotheses without sacrificing the judgment that makes the output useful.
• Identify gaps in measurement, event instrumentation, and metric definitions, and partner with Data and Product Engineering to close them.
• Serve as a trusted analytical partner to PLG leadership, using evidence and product judgment to influence investment decisions and roadmap priorities.
• Influence product strategy through evidence, product instincts, and a clear point of view, without relying on formal authority to do it.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in product analytics, growth analytics, or data science, with a track record of high ownership and measurable impact on PLG or consumer product outcomes.
• Deep understanding of product and growth dynamics across activation, engagement, conversion, monetization, and retention.
• Demonstrated ability to turn behavioral data into product hypotheses and carry them from insight through experimentation and measured outcomes.
• Deep experimentation expertise: study design, statistical reasoning, causal inference, and the judgment to know when an experiment has told you what you need to know.
• Experience building analytical systems such as metrics layers, monitoring frameworks, or semantic models that teams can rely on over time.
• An AI-native approach to analysis: you use AI tools actively to accelerate investigation, automate repetitive work, and surface patterns faster.
• A track record of influencing senior stakeholders and product direction through analytical reasoning, clear recommendations, and sound judgment.
• Comfort operating with significant autonomy in ambiguous problem spaces, including determining which questions are most important to answer.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in distributed environments, with the ability to make complex findings clear and recommendations actionable.

Benefits

• Competitive salary range of $204,000 - $275,000 for most US-based locations.
• Robust benefits package and participation in Netlify’s equity plan.
• Commitment to a compensation philosophy that prioritizes fairness and equity.

Applying

Not sure you meet 100% of our qualifications? Please apply anyway!

• Include a resume or short listing of your job history & skills (link to a LinkedIn profile would be fine).
• A cover letter explaining why you would enjoy working in this role at Netlify is appreciated but not required.