Fetch Rewards

Senior Staff Data Scientist

Fetch Rewards

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

PythonSQL

About the role

  • Define and own Fetch’s company-level measurement framework anchored in MAU × ARPU.
  • Company Measurement and Causal Strategy.
  • Establish decision frameworks for pricing, incentives, and value trade-offs.
  • Set standards for evidence quality, uncertainty, and confidence in decision-making.
  • Define the causal reasoning model used across product, growth, marketing, and finance.
  • Own the scientific capability roadmap including elasticity, value curves, MMM, and forecasting.
  • Architect the semantic mart and metric logic powering FetchGPT and scalable insights.
  • Define canonical metric definitions and unify logic across experimentation platforms, dashboards, and diagnostics.
  • Partner with Analytics Engineering and Data Platform to build foundational data assets.
  • Establish BI standards and eliminate redundant or conflicting dashboards.
  • Serve as the quality bar for high-impact analytics and diagnostics.
  • Review strategic analyses to ensure correct interpretation and mechanism alignment.
  • Set scientific rules for experimentation and validate high-risk tests such as pricing and incentives.
  • Ensure observational and experimental results reconcile cleanly.
  • Create templates and interpretation guides to standardize rigor.
  • Own cross-company models that drive executive decisions, including marketing mix modeling, elasticity and incentive sensitivity, value expectation curves, strategic forecasting, and financial mechanism models supporting MAU × ARPU planning.
  • Raise the scientific maturity of the data science and analytics organization.
  • Design upskilling programs in statistics, causality, modeling, and storytelling.
  • Author best-practice modeling libraries and documentation.
  • Serve as a technical anchor and thought partner for senior ICs across the org.
  • Establish norms for rigorous, transparent, mechanism-driven insights.
  • Apply advanced statistical and causal methods to company-level problems.
  • Build scalable, production-ready analytical frameworks in partnership with engineering.
  • Champion best practices in experimentation design, model validation, and reproducibility.
  • Leverage modern analytics tooling such as Python, SQL, Snowflake, dbt, and experimentation platforms.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in data science, economics, statistics, or applied research, including experience operating at Staff or Principal scope on company and/or org-level problems.
  • Deep expertise in causal inference, experimental design, and observational analysis, with demonstrated ownership of high-stakes business decisions informed by causal evidence.
  • Experience defining and owning company-level measurement frameworks, canonical metrics, or strategic models used by senior leadership.
  • Proven ability to influence and support executive decision-making, including presenting trade-offs, uncertainty, and recommendations that directly impact strategy.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex causal and modeling concepts to non-technical senior audiences.
  • Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field.
Benefits
  • Equity: We offer employees equity in Fetch, so that everyone can benefit from Fetch’s growth.
  • 401k Match: Dollar-for-dollar match up to 4%.
  • Benefits for humans and pets: We offer comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans for everyone including your pets.
  • Continuing Education: Fetch provides ten thousand per year in education reimbursement.
  • Employee Resource Groups: Take part in employee-led groups that are centered around fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace through events, dialogue and advocacy.
  • Paid Time Off: On top of our flexible PTO, Fetch observes 9 paid holidays, including Juneteenth and Indigenous People’s Day, as well as our year-end week-long break.
  • Robust Leave Policies: 20 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, 14 weeks for secondary caregivers, and a flexible return to work schedule.
  • Calvin Care Cash: Employees who are welcoming new family members will also receive a one time $2,000 incentive to assist employees with covering the cost of childcare, clothing, diapers and much more!
  • Flexible Work Environment: Collaborate with your team in one of our stunning offices in Madison, Birmingham, or Chicago. Or you can work fully remotely from anywhere in the US.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
causal inferenceexperimental designobservational analysisstatistical methodsmodelingforecastingmarketing mix modelingelasticityvalue curvesdata analysis
Soft skills
communicationinfluencedecision-makingstorytellingcollaborationleadershipcritical thinkingproblem-solvingpresentation skillsstandardization