Director, Data Science

Headspace

Director of Data Science overseeing product, marketing, and analytics at Headspace. Leading a high-performing team to improve health and happiness outcomes for users.

Posted 4/29/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $180,000 - $287,500 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the strategy, execution, and impact of Data Science across product, marketing, and forecasting.
Set direction for how the team supports product development, experimentation, lifecycle, growth, and business decision-making.
Ensure focus on the highest-value problems across Product, Marketing, Care, and B2B, tied to member and business outcomes.
Establish high standards across experimentation, causal inference, modeling, forecasting, segmentation, and statistical rigor.
Raise quality in hypotheses, metrics, experiment design, model evaluation, and decision recommendations.
Build durable review mechanisms and operating standards to ensure work is sound, interpretable, and decision-ready.
Lead product analytics to shape how user behavior is understood across acquisition, engagement, retention, and care journeys.
Strengthen data foundations including instrumentation, telemetry quality, validation, and experimentation readiness.
Partner cross-functionally to define measurement strategies that demonstrate care impact, outcomes, and ROI.
Build and lead a high-performing team by developing leaders, raising the talent bar, and leveraging AI to improve productivity and insight generation.

Requirements

What you’ll need

12+ years of experience in data science, product science, marketing science, quantitative analytics, experimentation, economics, statistics, machine learning, or related fields.
Proven ability managing senior ICs and people managers, including managers and principal-level scientists.
Deep expertise in experimentation, causal inference, and predictive modeling.
Experience partnering closely with Product and Engineering on instrumentation, measurement strategy, and decision-making.
Strong track record influencing roadmap and investment decisions with clear, evidence-based recommendations.
Demonstrated ability to connect behavioral measurement and scientific work to business outcomes and product strategy.
Excellent communication and executive-facing partnership skills.

Benefits

Comp & perks

base salary, stock awards, comprehensive healthcare coverage, monthly wellness stipend, retirement savings match, lifetime Headspace membership, generous parental leave, and more.

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Hard Skills & Tools

data sciencequantitative analyticsexperimentationcausal inferencepredictive modelingstatisticsmachine learninginstrumentationmeasurement strategymodel evaluation

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationinfluencingpartnershipteam developmentdecision-makingstrategic thinkingcollaborationproblem-solvingexecutive-facing skills