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Senior Data Scientist, Trust
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Job Location:
Los Angeles, CA - USA
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Posted:
11 July 2026 (30+ days ago)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
8 October 2026
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Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
The Role
As a Senior Data Scientist on Linktrees Trust team you will play a key role in protecting the integrity and health of our platform. You will apply your expertise in data science and statistical modeling to define how we measure harm assess platform risk and continuously improve our detection and mitigation systems.
In this role you will build and scale the core measurement framework that underpins Trust at Linktree establishing clear defensible definitions of harm prevalence enforcement effectiveness and user impact. You will partner closely with Engineering Product Policy Legal and Operations to identify emerging abuse patterns size their impact and ensure our mitigation systems are effective and aligned with our risk tolerance.
You will also play a central role in evaluating and strengthening our ML and LLM-based safety systems. This includes defining high-quality ground truth datasets establishing statistically sound evaluation benchmarks and implementing monitoring frameworks to ensure model quality and reliability in partnership with Engineering you will identify failure modes improve detection quality and build monitoring frameworks that keep our systems effective as abuse patterns evolve.
Your work will directly shape how Linktree understands and prioritize platform risk and measures the effectiveness of its trust and safety investments.
What Youll Own
- Define and operationalize the core Trust metric frameworks that anchors company-wide north star goals and cross-functional team performance
- Refine and validate the scoring model used to assess Linktree quality and risk ensuring heuristic logic is measurable calibrated and aligned with policy standards
- Build and maintain production-grade datasets and dashboards that provide reliable visibility into platform risk and system performance
- Identify and size emerging abuse patterns through deep-dive analysis and translate findings into clear product policy operations and engineering priorities
- Partner with Engineering to define evaluation frameworks for ML detection and LLM-based safety systems including ground truth design and performance benchmarking
- Monitor model health in production (e.g. precision recall calibration drift) and proactively surface degradation bias or failure model
- Support Trust incident response through rapid analysis impact sizing and postmortem insights that drive durable improvements
- Communicate risk trends and model performance insights through clear visualizations and executive-ready narratives
What Youll Bring
- 5 years as a Data Scientist in a product-driven technology company
- Direct experience in Trust & Safety Integrity Fraud Security or other risk-focused domains
- Proven ability to define and operationalize metric frameworks (e.g. Prevalence Recall and False Positive Rates) to evaluate the effectiveness of product policy or ML-driven interventions
- Experience evaluating machine learning models including offline methodology performance tradeoffs (precision/recall calibration) and production monitoring
- Advanced SQL proficiency and fluency in Python (or R) for advanced analytics and modeling
- Strong foundation in statistics experimentation design and causal inference
- Experience working within mature data platforms and analytics engineering stacks (e.g. DBT Dagster Airflow)
- Experience designing intuitive decision-oriented dashboards and compelling data visualizations using tools such as Hex Looker Tableau or PowerBI
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate complex statistical findings and risk tradeoffs into clear recommendations for cross-functional stakeholders
- Bachelors Degree in a quantitative field (Mathematics Statistics Computer Science Physics Economics or related); an advanced degree (MS/PhD) is a strong plus.
Linktree is committed to providing a fair and competitive compensation package including cash equity and benefits. Final offers depend on multiple factors including location experience expertise and role scope and may vary from the range listed.
P.S. If you dont tick every box in this listing please dont rule yourself out. We take pride in inclusion and hiring incredible human beings with great potential over ticking boxes so if this role resonates with you hit that apply button!
Our Story
Were on a mission to empower anyone to curate grow and monetize their digital universe. We created the link in bio category and were just getting started. From creators artists and entrepreneurs to global brands were redefining how people connect with their communities showcase their content and promote products all in one link.
Today a community of 70 million use Linktree including icons like Adidas TikTok the UN Environmental Program The NFL Manchester United World Central Kitchen Sabrina Carpenter Olivia Rodrigo and Selena Gomez. With 48000 new accounts created every day Linktree is the fastest-growing leader in our space.
Weve teamed up with some of the worlds biggest platforms including TikTok Snap YouTube GoFundMe Spotify Google Stripe Reddit Laylo and Kajabi to unify Linkers digital spaces and we partner with retail brands Amazon Lululemon Nike Target Sephora Lululemon and more to share products they love.
Were a tight-knit passionate team building best-in-class tools that make online presence simple powerful and yours. If youre excited by the idea of shaping a new category setting the standard and making space for everyone to be seen and succeed wed love to meet you.
Where and How We Work
Were a global diverse team spread across continents with offices in London Los Angeles Melbourne and San Francisco. We work together flexibly and you can choose the setup that works best for you: fully remote or a hybrid mix of office and home.
We offer autonomy in how you structure your days and weeks. While were mindful of time zones and occasionally collaborate outside the typical 95 we lean into async work to keep things flowing. Our culture is family-friendly and Zoom-casual where kids pets and delivery drivers are welcome.
How well help you thrive
Our approach to benefits considers the whole person and the unique contributions they bring to Linktree. We want the experience at Linktree to be one that enables people to truly thrive so we can Go Further Together (one of our values). Some ways we support you:
- An annual wellbeing allowance to use on things like (but not limited to) fitness memberships development courses childcare travel charitable donations pet insurance home office set-up - the choice is yours!
- 100% coverage (and 80% for your dependents) of your monthly premiums for medical dental vision disability and life insurance for US-based employees.
- Employer contribution towards your retirement.
- Generous time off for vacation holidays parental leave volunteer time and other categories.
- Employee stock option program - we want each and every employee to share in the companys success.
At Linktree we believe in promoting a culture that celebrates unique backgrounds talents and experiences and were proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are creating an inclusive workplace where every individual feels valued respected and has equal opportunities to thrive. We aim to foster a diverse and inclusive environment where all team members have a sense of belonging. Linktree welcomes all people regardless of sex gender identity race ethnicity disability pregnancy age or other lived experience. If you require accommodations to fully participate in our opportunities please dont hesitate to reach us at your needs are important to us.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
