Staff Data Scientist, Marketing
Share
Job Location:
Monthly Salary:
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Thumbtack helps millions of people confidently care for their homes.
Thumbtack is the one app you need to take care of and improve your home from personalized guidance to AI tools and a best-in-class hiring experience. Every day in every county of the U.S. people turn to Thumbtack to complete urgent repairs seasonal maintenance and bigger improvements. We help homeowners know which projects to do when to do them and who to hire from our growing community of 300000 local service businesses. If making an impact inspires you join us. Imagine what well build together.
About the Data Science Team
The Data Science team empowers Thumbtack to use data to guide business decisions. We collaborate with partners across the company to solve the most analytically challenging problems -- everything from informing how we set prices across almost a thousand local services categories to evaluating the impact of a new business model on company performance to identifying early predictors of high-quality customers. We are a tight-knit intellectually curious team that is committed to improving Thumbtack and improving each other.
About the Role
At Thumbtack Data Scientists are trusted to combine rigorous thinking technical expertise and business context to accelerate smarter decisions and better products. Our Marketing Data Science team powers a data-driven growth engineblending advanced analytics innovative technology and creative problem-solving to bring users to Thumbtack and keep them engaged.
As a Staff Marketing Data Scientist you will serve as one of the most senior members of the team setting the bar for technical innovation and strategic impact. Your mission will be to advance our channel measurement capabilities and to design scalable methodologies frameworks and tools that empower the Marketing and Data Science teams to operate with speed rigor and confidence.
What youll do
- Lead the development and advancement of measurement methodologies that push the boundaries of whats possible in evaluating marketing effectiveness. Youll explore innovative approaches grounded in data science and modern analytical methods.
- Drive the creation of frameworks tools and processes that make measurement more systematic and scalable across a variety of channels.
- Evolve and strengthen existing modeling approaches to deliver insights that are both robust and actionable.
- Iterate on measurement approaches to marketing problems like channel incrementality bolstering a robust approach to maximizing return on ad spend
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners to connect measurement learnings with business strategy and growth.
- Serve as a technical leadermentoring others elevating analytical standards and shaping the long-term direction of measurement at Thumbtack.
- Identify and pursue new opportunities where advanced analytics or fresh methodologies can unlock impact.
In order to be successful you must bring
- 4 years of experience in data science analytics or economics
- Bachelors Masters or Doctoral degree in a technical area such as: Statistics Engineering Analytics Math Computer ScienceEconomics
- Minimum of 0-5 years of experience in industry consulting government or academic research. Applicants with considerably more experience including mid-career are also strongly encouraged to apply.
- Proficiency with analytical tools like Python and SQL
- Ability to work in a fast moving business environment.
- Strong communication skills and ability to build strong relationships cross-functionally and with leadership and get buy-in on a data-driven perspective
Expected salary ranges
- For candidates living in Ontario and British Columbia the expected salary range for the role is currently $193800 - $250800.
Actual offered salaries will vary and will be based on various factors such as calibrated job level qualifications skills competencies and proficiency for the role.
#LI-Remote
Thumbtack embraces diversity. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and do not discriminate on the basis of sex race color age pregnancy sexual orientation gender identity or expression religion national origin ancestry citizenship marital status military or veteran status genetic information disability status or any other characteristic protected by federal provincial state or local law. We also will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records consistent with applicable law.
Thumbtack is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation for a medical condition or disability during any part of the application process please contact: .
If you are a California resident please review information regarding your rights under California privacy laws contained in Thumbtacks Privacy policy available at put as much craftsmanship into candidate safety as we do into the hiring experience itself. While scammers may try to impersonate our team well never ask you for money banking info or SSNs during hiring. Check out our blueprint on how to spot the fakes.
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
Find local pros, compare prices and book home services in a few simple steps. Thumbtack makes caring for your home easier.
