Staff Data Scientist

Quora

Staff Data Scientist collaborating with Quora's data team on high-impact projects influencing product strategy and company direction. Driving analysis and experimental design to enhance user engagement.

Posted 6/2/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $144,320 - $240,092 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Python

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own ambiguous, high-impact problem spaces across product and business domains, from question framing, to devising and conducting the analysis, to developing and implementing solutions with cross-functional partners
Partner with cross-functional stakeholders and company leadership to shape product strategy and anticipate future challenges
Design and evaluate experiments to measure the impact of product and strategic changes
Analyze data from across the product to uncover root causes of metric movements
Develop tools, methodologies, and frameworks that help make both the data team and the company as a whole smarter about data
Multiply the impact of other data scientists through mentorship and instilling industry best practices across the team

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ years work experience in an analytical or quantitative role, including 5+ as a Data Scientist or similar title, with a track record of success at a senior or staff level of scope and autonomy
Demonstrated ability to tackle difficult data questions that few others could have taken on, such as those requiring deep ownership of a product area and/or leading cross-functional and cross-team efforts
Expertise with statistical techniques (e.g. regression, hypothesis testing, causal inference) and their practical application
Experience mentoring other data scientists and raising team standards through best practices and process improvements
Effective communication skills, including the ability to translate ambiguous business needs into analytical questions and to explain technical results to executives and cross-functional partners
Extensive experience using a procedural programming language (e.g. Python, R) for data manipulation, modeling, and analysis; comfort working in a production codebase
Strong judgment that blends quantitative rigor with product intuition and common sense.

Benefits

Comp & perks

medical/dental/vision coverage
equity refreshers
remote work reimbursement
paid time off
employee assistance programs

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Hard Skills & Tools

data analysisstatistical techniquesregressionhypothesis testingcausal inferencedata manipulationmodelingPythonRdata frameworks

Soft Skills

mentorshipeffective communicationproblem-solvingcross-functional collaborationstrategic thinkingjudgmentownershipteam standards improvementtranslating business needsexplaining technical results