As an early member of the Data Science team at Perplexity, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the direction of our product and company. This is a unique opportunity to join a fast-growing startup and help define the data science function. Contribute to our mission to become the world's most knowledge-centric company by reshaping the future of search and technology.
Responsibilities
- Develop data-driven insights from user behavior to inform the product roadmap and accelerate adoption.
- Create hypotheses and validate them through designing, running, and analyzing A/B tests.
- Identify and implement the right metrics and visualizations in dashboards, ranging from feature-specific to company-wide.
- Collaborate closely with other teams, including engineering, product, growth, design, and user research.
- Build tables to streamline analysis and improve data accessibility.
Qualifications
- Required:
- 4+ years of experience as a data scientist or in a related role.
- Experience in fast-growing companies, especially in consumer or growth-focused roles.
- Expertise in SQL.
- Extensive experience with A/B testing.
- Proficiency in building dashboards using BI tools like Omni, Mode, Hex, Looker, or similar.
- Self-starter with the ability to take ownership of projects from start to finish.
- Comfort with solving open-ended problems.
- Experience with data modeling.
- Nice-to-Have:
- Early-stage or growth-stage startup experience as a data scientist.
- Experience in data engineering or analytics engineering (especially with dbt).
- Expertise in areas such as ads, enterprise sales, search, or large language models.
- Experience blending qualitative and quantitative insights through collaboration with user research teams.
- Familiarity with Snowflake (especially as an admin).
- Experience with Python and machine learning.
Compensation
The cash compensation range for this role is $200,000 - $230,000.
About Perplexity
At Perplexity, we've experienced tremendous growth and adoption since publicly launching the world's first fully functional conversational answer engine just over a year ago. Our AI-powered search assistant has:
- 10 million monthly active users as of early 2024.
- Over 1 million mobile app installs across iOS and Android.
- 500 million queries served globally in 2023 alone.
