Data Scientist

About Mixpanel

Mixpanel turns data clarity into innovation. Trusted by more than 29000 companies including Workday Pinterest LG and Rakuten Viber Mixpanels AI-first digital analytics help teams accelerate adoption improve retention and ship with confidence. Powering this is an industry-leading platform that combines product and web analytics session replay experimentation feature flags and metric trees. Mixpanel delivers insights that customers trust. Visit to learn more.

About The Role

The Analytics team does product research builds analytical frameworks and forecasts tells data stories and makes recommendations so that Mixpanel can run on data. Since Mixpanels mission is to enable our customers to be data-driven it is only natural that Mixpanel itself is serious about being data-driven too. As a result our teams scope covers the entire business and product.

We believe analytics is a profession. We inform the most important decisions the company makes with our analyses. We ensure everyone at Mixpanel has easy access to the data and research they need. And because Mixpanel builds an analytics product we are a valuable input for our product teams as they build future analysis features.

Responsibilities

• Answer Mixpanels biggest business and product questions to inform our strategy and operations.
• Work with Mixpanels leadership to identify the highest priority strategic questions and define a research roadmap to answer them.
• Lead quantitative research to discover:
  • The relationships between user-level behavior in Mixpanel and organization/customer-level outcomes.
  • The best strategies for our product marketing and sales teams to drive higher user adoption customer happiness and revenue growth.
  • The best proxy metrics for teams to use to achieve company goals.
• Conduct regular metrics and research reviews with company leaders.
• Forecast metrics and attribute metrics trends to internal and external factors.
• Design the right data interfaces or data UX for internal users in operational teams to get easy access to the right data at the right time to best do their jobs.
• Communicate analysis insights at all levels of the organization to drive positive change.

Were Looking for Someone Who Has

• Experience driving positive change with recommendations rooted in data analysis and quantitative research.
• Familiarity with measuring and driving product success.
• Deep expertise in a quantitative field (Masters degree or greater preferred).
• Ability to work with structured and unstructured data including:
  • Advanced SQL
  • Scripting ability in Python
• Familiarity with cloud-based data warehouses dbt and collaborative data science notebooks.
• Hands-on experience building and deploying statistical and/or machine learning models.
• Experience collaborating effectively with teams and leaders in different parts of a business.
• Strong written and verbal communication

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Benefits and Perks

• Comprehensive Medical Vision and Dental Care
• Mental Wellness Benefit
• Generous Vacation Policy & Additional Company Holidays
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• Volunteer Time Off
• Additional US Benefits: Pre-Tax Benefits including 401(K) Wellness Benefit Holiday Break

*please note that benefits and perks for contract positions will vary*

Culture Values

• Make Bold Bets: We choose courageous action over comfortable progress.
• Innovate with Insight: We tackle decisions with rigor and judgment - combining data experience and collective wisdom to drivepowerful outcomes.
• One Team: We collaborate across boundaries to achieve far greater impact than any of us could accomplish alone.
• Candor with Connection: We build meaningful relationships that enable honest feedback and direct conversations.
• Champion the Customer: We seek to deeply understand our customers needs ensuring their success is our north star.
• Powerful Simplicity: We find elegant solutions to complex problems making sophisticated things accessible.

Why choose Mixpanel

Were a leader in analytics with over 9000 customers and $277M raised from prominent investors: like Andreessen-Horowitz Sequoia YC and most recently Bain Capital. Mixpanels pioneering event-based data analytics platform offers a powerful yet simple solution for companies to understand user behaviors and easily track overarching company success metrics. Our accomplished teams continuously facilitate our expansion by tackling the ever-evolving challenges tied to scaling reliability design and service. Choosing to work at Mixpanel means youll be helping the worlds most innovative companies learn from their data so they can make better decisions.

Mixpanel is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity. At Mixpanel we are focused on things that really matterour people our customers our partnersout of a recognition that those relationships are the most valuable assets we have. We actively encourage women people with disabilities veterans underrepresented minorities and LGBTQ people to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin gender gender identity or expression sexual orientation age marital status veteran status or disability status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance or other similar laws that may be applicable we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Weve immersed ourselves in our Culture and Values as our guiding principles for the impact we want to have and the future we are building.