Staff Data Scientist - Product Analytics
About the Team
Data is at the core of Outreach's strategy. It drives ourselves and our customers to the highest levels of success. We use it for everything from customer health scores and revenue dashboards, to operational metrics of our AWS infrastructure, to helping increase product engagement and user productivity through natural language understanding, to predictive analytics and causal inference via experimentation. As our customer base continues to grow, we are looking towards new ways of leveraging our data to deeper understand our customers’ needs and deliver new products and features to help continuously improve their customer engagement workflows.
The mission of the Data Science team is to enable such continuous optimization by reconstructing customer engagement workflows from data, developing metrics to measure success and efficiency of these workflows, and providing tools to support optimization of these workflows. As a member of the team, you will be on the ground floor working with Data Scientists - Inference and Algorithms, Machine Learning Engineers, Application Engineers, and other Data Scientists - Product Analytics, to define and implement our strategy for delivering on this mission.
Responsibilities
- Being a key partner for Outreach Product team to help create the right instrumentation and validate, clean and organize data into easy to consume data products
- Applying your expertise in quantitative analysis, data mining, data visualization and presentation to see beyond the numbers and understand how our users interact with Outreach products
- Identifying the opportunities most important for growth, to remove barriers for product adoption, retention and engagement, and partnering with our data science and engineering teams to support execution of those projects with data and insights
- Defining and analyzing metrics that measure the success and value of Outreach products and allow us to monitor the health of product adoption
- Build and maintain KPI dashboards that product leaders rely on for making key decisions. You'll communicate your findings with the rest of the company, and drive and verify change in our product and business (Insights are useful. Impact is even better!)
- Designing and executing A/B tests to measure the impact of new features and deeper understand user behavior
- Communicating the state of business, experiment results, opportunities, etc. to the Outreach leadership team
- Influencing and informing Outreach product strategy through presentation of data-based recommendations
Our Vision of You
- You have 8+ years of quantitative analytics experience and demonstrated success in using analytics to drive the understanding, growth, and success of a product
- You have expert knowledge of BI tools such as Tableau and product analytics tools such as Amplitude
- You are a SQL expert. You have no problem regularly leveraging window functions, UDFs, self-joins, and other complex SQL functions to accomplish your data analysis goals.
- You have substantial coding experience in Python (preferred), or other scripting languages
- You have experience working with distributed data processing frameworks such as Spark
- You have working knowledge of applied statistics including hypothesis testing, experiment design, regressions. You know how to use statistical inference to drive product and business recommendations.
- You are hands on, able to quickly pick up new tools and languages, excited about building things and experimenting, always looking to sharpen and adapt your skills. You have a bias for using the right tools to get a job done with maximum efficiency. You have experience making tradeoffs between speed and accuracy.
- You are experienced in thinking strategically, structurally solving product problems, driving execution, effectively partnering with and influencing product, engineering, and data science teams. Think strategically, but stay on top of tactical execution.
- Think big and have convictions.
- You go above and beyond to help your teamYou are honest, admit mistakes, and own fixing themYou have a BA/BS or advanced degrees in Computer Science, Math, Physics, Engineering, Statistics, Economics or other technical field
About Outreach
- Outreach is a communication platform built from the ground up to help people communicate with customers more effectively. Today we focus on the sales organization, helping them engage with their prospects and customers through email, calling, and LinkedIn communication flows. Our customers spend the majority of their day living inside our software, relying on it to be more effective communicators with their audience.
- Since our first days here at Outreach learning about how people communicate, we became obsessed with understanding our customers’ problems. As a result, we’ve built the most loved product on the market and won the hearts and minds (and business) of some incredible organizations around the world.
- In addition to our relentless focus on the customer, we’ve received over $28039 million in venture funding, been listed on Seattle Business Magazine’s 100 Best Places to Work, been ranked #1 for 2016 Sales Automation/Acceleration software by Ambition and Apptus, and were named to the 2016 Forbes Cloud 100-Rising Star list in the Sales Technology Category. LinkedIn ranked Outreach as the #15 in theirLinkedIn’s Top 25 Startups List for 2018. CB Insights and The New York Times include Outreach as the50 Future Unicorns in 2018. And we indeed achieved Unicorn status with $1.1 billion valuation after our $114 million Series E funding in April 2019.
- We aren’t slowing down anytime soon.
Who We Are
- Outreach is headquartered in Seattle with sales offices throughout the US. Our team shares a mission and sense of purpose: to help sales teams succeed by better connecting with their customers.
- We’re a team of problem solvers and overachievers who value diversity of experience and perspective. We like to be challenged. We seek out people who are passionate about their craft and relentless in their pursuit of excellence.
- We value grit. Building a company isn’t easy so the ability to dig deep and tap into your inner super powers from time to time is important. We’ve learned that a good attitude and great teamwork go a long way to overcoming the inevitable bumps along the way.
- Outreach is a rocket ship and we’re excited to be building our future together. If you join us, you’ll be challenged with big projects, empowered to own them, and enabled to crush it. Let’s do this thing together.
Why You’ll Love It Here
• Generous medical, dental, and vision coverage for full-time employees and their dependents
• Flexible time off
• 401k to help you save for the future
• Company-organized and personal paid volunteer days to support the community that supports us
• Fun company and team outings (or virtual events these days!) because we play just as hard as we work
• Diversity and inclusion programs that promote employee resource groups like OWN (Outreach Women's Network), AAPI, Rainbow (LGBTQIA+), Gender+, LatinX, Black Excellence, Disability Community, and Veterans
• A parental leave program that includes not just extended time off but options for a paid night nurse, food delivery, gradual return to work, and the Gottman Institute's Bringing Home Baby course for new parents
• Employee referral bonuses to encourage the addition of great new people to the team
• Plus, unlimited snacks and beverages in our kitchen (once we're back in the office, that is!)
• We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status
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