Data Scientist

Mixpanel

Data Scientist providing data-driven insights to inform business strategy at Mixpanel. Collaborating with leadership to shape research initiatives and drive positive organizational change.

Posted 4/27/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $174,600 - $213,400 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudPythonSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Answer Mixpanel's biggest business and product questions to inform our strategy and operations.
Work with Mixpanel’s leadership to identify the highest priority strategic questions, and define a research roadmap to answer them.
Lead quantitative research to discover:
The relationships between user-level behavior in Mixpanel and organization/customer-level outcomes.
The best strategies for our product, marketing, and sales teams to drive higher user adoption, customer happiness, and revenue growth.
The best proxy metrics for teams to use to achieve company goals.
Conduct regular metrics and research reviews with company leaders.
Forecast metrics and attribute metrics trends to internal and external factors.
Design the right “data interfaces” or data UX for internal users in operational teams to get easy access to the right data at the right time to best do their jobs.
Communicate analysis insights at all levels of the organization to drive positive change.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience driving positive change with recommendations rooted in data analysis and quantitative research.
Familiarity with measuring and driving product success.
Deep expertise in a quantitative field (Masters degree or greater preferred).
Ability to work with structured and unstructured data, including:
Advanced SQL
Scripting ability in Python
Familiarity with cloud-based data warehouses, dbt, and collaborative data science notebooks.
Hands-on experience building and deploying statistical and/or machine learning models.
Experience collaborating effectively with teams and leaders in different parts of a business.
Strong written and verbal communication

Benefits

Comp & perks

Comprehensive Medical, Vision, and Dental Care
Mental Wellness Benefit
Generous Vacation Policy & Additional Company Holidays
Enhanced Parental Leave
Volunteer Time Off
Additional US Benefits: Pre-Tax Benefits including 401(K), Wellness Benefit, Holiday Break

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Hard Skills & Tools

data analysisquantitative researchadvanced SQLPythonstatistical modelsmachine learning modelsdata UX designmetrics forecastingproxy metricsuser behavior analysis

Soft Skills

collaborationcommunicationleadershipstrategic thinkingproblem-solvingadaptabilityinfluencedata-driven decision makingorganizational skillschange management

Certifications

Masters degree or greater in a quantitative field