About Slickdeals:
On a mission to bring the joy of discovering a great deal to shoppers, Slickdeals thrives on the active participation of its 10-million-strong community. Users share, upvote, and uncover the best prices on popular products from trustworthy brands.
With a robust track record of 25 years in business, marked by profitability and a thriving community that has saved more than $10 billion, Slickdeals is currently undergoing a transformation. As we evolve into a daily shopping destination for millions more, joining Slickdeals presents an exciting opportunity for entrepreneurially-minded builders to create an innovative deal discovery platform.
The Purpose:
We're seeking a Data Scientist who will leverage their expertise in quantitative analysis to gain deep insights into user behavior on the Slickdeals platform, identifying opportunities for product enhancement and guiding the product roadmap. This role involves collaborating with product teams to define key metrics, develop foundational datasets, and create dashboards to monitor product health and track progress. Through strong communication and collaboration with cross-functional teams, the Data Scientist will ensure that data-driven insights contribute to impactful changes in the platform.
What You'll Do:
- Apply your quantitative expertise to dive into user behavior and understand how users interact with Slickdeals platform, identify opportunities for product improvement and help shape the product roadmap and strategy.
- Work with the embedded product team to determine the north star and operational metrics, build the foundational datasets, and build dashboards that monitor product health, track progress, and support key decision-making.
- Dive into ambiguous areas to identify opportunities, define analytics problems, and deepen the team's understanding of user behavior on the platform, ensuring valuable insights are captured.
- Lead the design of experiments, establish the metrics framework to assess the success of new features, and drive meaningful insights and learnings through test results.
- Influence the product roadmap by effectively communicating your findings across the company, ensuring that data-driven insights lead to impactful product and business changes.
What We're Looking For:
- A degree in a quantitative field such as Statistics, Data Science, Applied Mathematics, or related discipline (advanced degrees preferred).
- 3+ years of working experience in a Data Scientist, Analytics, or equivalent role.
- Expertise in SQL - able to write structured and efficient queries with large data sets.
- Experience in online experimentation and statistical analysis, and know how to use statistical inference and experimentation to drive actionable recommendations.
- Experience in any of the data visualization tools as Tableau, Looker, Sigma, PowerBI etc.
- Experience in Python, especially with data science and visualization libraries, is helpful.
- Self-starter, thrives in ambiguity and has an investigator mindset of wanting to get to the bottom of problems.
- Strong communication skills, and ability to collaborate with and influence cross-functional partners.
LOCATION: San Mateo, CA or Las Vegas, NV
Hybrid schedule visiting our San Mateo or Las Vegas office three days a week (Tues-Thurs).