Staff Applied Scientist, Causal Inference
Coinbase
PythonSQL
Senior Data Scientist – Experimentation and Measurement
Sony Interactive Entertainment
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • California
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💰 $163,900 - $245,900 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
PythonSQL
About the role
- Lead the design, execution, and interpretation of A/B tests and quasi-experiments to evaluate PS4 to PS5 migration initiatives, growth marketing strategies, and campaign performance.
- Partner with cross-functional teams (product, engineering, marketing) to embed experimentation into development and iteration cycles.
- Serve as a thought leader on best practices for hypothesis development, metric selection, test structure, and results communication.
- Apply advanced causal inference methods when experimentation isn’t feasible or to inform test design and prioritization.
- Help define and contribute to centralized experimentation frameworks, tools, and documentation to scale best practices across the company.
- Independently extract, transform, and analyze data from complex systems using SQL, Python, and other analytics tools.
- Communicate findings clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders to drive business decisions.
- Stay current on new methodologies in experimentation and causal analysis and bring fresh perspectives to the team’s work.
Requirements
- Master’s or PhD in Statistics, Economics, or Econometrics. Other degrees in quantitative disciplines may be considered.
- 5+ years of experience in a data science experimentation-focused role (3+ with PhD).
- Deep expertise in A/B testing and causal inference, including quasi-experimental methods.
- Proficiency in SQL for data extraction and transformation.
- Proficiency in Python, including statistical and data science libraries.
- Broad and applied knowledge of statistical techniques and machine learning modeling methods.
- Proven ability to influence product and business decisions through clear, actionable insights.
- Experience contributing to or developing experimentation frameworks, best practices, or internal tooling.
- Bonus: Interest in or knowledge of video games, gaming platforms, or player behavior.
