Senior Data Scientist

Fliff


Job Location:

Austin, TX - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 135000 - 160000
Posted on: 6 days ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Fliff unpacks sports gaming into social free-to-play games for all types of sports fans. Weve built a social sports gaming experience that allows users to compete for leaderboard positioning to achieve badges and build their status within the game.

We are pioneering play-for-fun sports gaming with our flagship social sportsbook experience that includes sweepstakes promotions and loyalty rewards. We provide sports fans with fun engaging and free-to-play alternatives to real money gaming.

Fliff is redefining the sports gaming experience by blending the fun of social play with the thrill of real-money competition. What began as a pioneering social sportsbook has evolved into a multi-vertical platform that is the fastest-growing brand in sports gaming. As we continue to expand were building a world-class ecosystem of sports gaming experiences that span social sweepstakes and real-money formats giving every type of fan a way to play compete and connect.
The Role:

Were hiring a Senior Data Scientist to embed within the marketing and growth function. Youll be the analytical backbone of how we acquire retain and grow our user base building the models dashboards and analyses that drive smarter spend sharper targeting and a deeper understanding of our players. A core part of this role will be measuring the true impact of our marketing and promotional investments: not just short-term lifts but the long-term effect on player behavior retention and lifetime value.

This role sits at the intersection of data engineering modeling and storytelling. Youll work directly with marketing product and finance leaders to turn raw behavioral and campaign data into decisions that move the business and youll own a problem end-to-end from pulling and cleaning the data to building the model to presenting the insight to stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Build and maintain predictive models that drive marketing strategy including player LTV churn risk CAC payback and propensity-to-convert models

  • Own marketing attribution and incrementality analysis across paid channels (Meta Google TikTok affiliates influencers etc.) helping the team understand whats actually driving growth

  • Quantify the causal impact and long-term business value of promotions bonuses and lifecycle campaigns moving beyond surface-level engagement metrics to measure true incremental retention monetization and LTV impact

  • Apply causal inference techniques (geo experiments synthetic control diff-in-diff CausalImpact uplift modeling) to evaluate marketing investments where clean A/B tests arent possible

  • Partner with growth marketers to design run and read out experiments: A/B tests geo-tests holdout studies and creative tests

  • Develop and maintain dashboards and self-serve reporting that give marketing leaders real-time visibility into channel performance cohort behavior promo ROI and funnel health

  • Clean structure and validate data across our marketing stack (ad platforms MMP internal event data CRM) and partner with data engineering to improve our data models where needed

  • Translate complex analyses into clear actionable recommendations for non-technical stakeholders

  • Continuously look for opportunities to automate improve and scale how the marketing team uses data

What Were Looking For:

  • 5 years of experience as a data scientist marketing analyst or growth analyst ideally in a consumer app gaming fintech or subscription business

  • Strong SQL skills and comfort working with large messy behavioral datasets

  • Hands-on experience building predictive models in Python (LTV churn propensity segmentation etc.) using libraries like scikit-learn XGBoost or similar

  • Experience evaluating the long-term and incremental impact of marketing and promotional spend: you understand the difference between who responded and who was actually influenced

  • Working knowledge of causal inference methods (diff-in-diff synthetic control CausalImpact uplift modeling propensity scoring) and when to apply each

  • Solid grounding in marketing measurement concepts: attribution (MTA MMM basics) incrementality holdouts cohort analysis and unit economics (CAC LTV payback)

  • Experience with experimentation: designing tests sizing them and reading them out with statistical rigor

  • Proficiency with at least one BI/visualization tool (Looker Tableau Mode Sigma etc.)

  • Strong communication skills: you can explain a model to a marketer and a campaign result to a CFO with equal clarity

  • A bias toward action: youd rather ship a useful 80% answer this week than a perfect one next quarter

Nice to Have:

  • Experience with mobile measurement partners (AppsFlyer Adjust Singular) and/or paid media APIs

  • Familiarity with cloud data warehouses (Snowflake BigQuery Redshift) and dbt

  • Background in gaming sports betting fantasy sports or another high-velocity consumer category

  • Experience modeling promo and bonus economics in a gaming fintech or e-commerce context

Benefits:

  • Competitive compensation package including base salary benefits and equity. The annual salary for this role ranges from $135000 - $160000
  • Unlimited/Flexible paid time off.

  • Health benefits including medical dental and vision coverage as well as generous parental leave.

  • Employee-sponsored 401(k).

Extras:

  • $500 work-from-home stipend Equipment & Accessories.

  • Work Remotely.

  • Opportunity for professional development in a dynamic global setting.

  • A supportive collaborative and knowledge-driven workplace. An engaging and challenging role with the freedom to innovate and develop effective solutions.

We are a multinational company with our headquarters based in Philadelphia and offices in New York Austin and Sofia Bulgaria. Wherever we are in the world we pride ourselves on being a close-knit focused team that is welcoming and friendly and the work that we do is always interesting and rewarding. Wherever we are in the world we pride ourselves on being a close-knit focused team that is:

Welcoming and Friendly
We want to reflect the diversity of the cities we serve. By creating an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive well make Fliff better for employees and customers alike.

Lively and Creative
We respect and value each others ideas experience and expertise. There is no such thing as a bad idea; only ideas that are executed and ideas that are discarded after consideration.

Stimulating and Rewarding
We know bright minds love a challenge and we understand your desire to see your hard work pay off. Well make sure your daily tasks align with your career ambitions as we grow together.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Fliff is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion gender gender identity or expression sexual orientation national origin genetics disability age or veteran status.

Join Our Team!
If youre ready to be part of an exciting innovative and dynamic team apply now to help shape the future of sports gaming with Fliff.

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Fliff unpacks sports gaming into social free-to-play games for all types of sports fans. Weve built a social sports gaming experience that allows users to compete for leaderboard positioning to achieve badges and build their status within the game.We are pioneering play-for-fun sports gaming with ou...

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Fliff is a new sports prediction experience that is social and rewarding. Play for free and earn rewards to experience the sweat without the financial risk!

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