Staff Data Scientist
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Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 180 - 225
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Why Harvey
At Harvey were transforming how legal and professional services operate not incrementally but end-to-end. By combining frontier agentic AI an enterprise-grade platform and deep domain expertise were reshaping how critical knowledge work gets done for decades to come.
This is a rare chance to help build a generational company at a true inflection point. With 700 customers in 58 countries strong product-market fit and world-class investor support were scaling fast and defining a new category in real time. The work is ambitious the bar is high and the opportunity for growth personal professional and financial is unmatched.
Our team is sharp motivated and deeply committed to the mission. We move fast operate with intensity and take real ownership of the problems we tackle from early thinking to long-term outcomes. We stay close to our customers from leadership to engineers and work together to solve real problems with urgency and care. If you thrive in ambiguity push for excellence and want to help shape the future of work alongside others who raise the bar we invite you to build with us.
At Harvey the future of professional services is being written today and were just getting started.
Role Overview
We are looking for a Staff Data Scientist who can set the foundation for data science at Harvey. Weve achieved incredible product-market fit and are scaling rapidly across diverse customer profiles. Youll bring a combination of analytical rigor statistical expertise and modeling skills to help us understand our users evaluate product performance and uncover growth opportunities. As one of the earliest members of the data science team youll influence the data culture shape our experimentation framework and guide key product and business decisions.
What Youll Do
Conduct in-depth analyses to uncover product customer and market insights that inform strategy and drive measurable business impact.
Design implement and evaluate experiments - including A/B tests and advanced causal inference methods - to guide product decisions and optimize outcomes.
Define track and evolve core metrics across product and business functions building scalable dashboards and reporting frameworks that enable data-driven decision-making.
Apply statistical and machine learning techniques to model user behavior forecast trends and identify opportunities for growth and optimization.
Translate complex analyses into compelling stories delivering clear recommendations to product managers engineers executives and cross-functional partners.
Partner with Engineering to co-develop data infrastructure ensuring robust pipelines reliable data sources and scalable systems that power analytics and modeling.
Lead cross-functional analytics initiatives that synthesize competitive dynamics customer feedback and market trends into actionable opportunities for the business.
Champion a data-informed culture by establishing best practices mentoring peers and shaping the strategic role of data science at Harvey.
What You Have
5 years of experience in quantitative roles operating in highly ambiguous environments ideally as an early data scientist or product analyst within a hyper-growth product company or research organization
Proven track record of designing executing and analyzing rigorous experiments using SQL and Python with the ability to translate results into actionable product recommendations
Experience defining implementing and operationalizing feature- and product-level metrics from the ground upStrong communication skills with the ability to effectively partner with product managers engineers and executives
Strategic mindset capable of generating insights that extend beyond traditional statistical significance testing to inform long-term product and business direction
Bonus
Early employee at a hyper-growth startup
Experience with or knowledge of AI and LLMs
Experience at world-class enterprise orgs (ex: Brex Ramp Stripe Palantir)
Compensation Range
$180000 - $225000 USD
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Required Experience:
Staff IC
Key Skills
- Laboratory Experience
- Bioinformatics
- Biochemistry
- Utility Locating
- Assays
- Research Experience
- Next Generation Sequencing
- Sensors
- Signal Processing
- Matlab
- Research & Development
- Molecular Biology
About Company
Professional Class AI – Harvey is the platform built to meet the standards of the world’s leading professional service firms.
