Senior Staff Data Scientist

About the Position

We are looking for a Senior Staff Data Scientist to join our team at Netlify. In this role, you will help shape our product and growth strategy with data-driven insights. This is a highly autonomous role for someone who can move from identifying an important question to shaping the approach, defining success, and driving toward an answer.

About the Team

Netlify’s Data team helps the company understand and improve the full product-led growth journey, from activation and engagement through conversion, retention, and monetization. We partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Growth to uncover opportunities, evaluate investments, and understand what drives customer and business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Own the analytical understanding of Netlify’s PLG performance across activation, engagement, conversion, monetization, and retention, identifying opportunities before they become requests
• Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to turn behavioral insights into product bets, defining what to test, how to measure it, and what the results mean
• Lead experimentation from hypothesis through decision, including study design, methodology, success metrics, guardrails, analysis, and recommendations
• Apply statistical rigor where it matters while recognizing when there is enough signal to make a decision and move forward, and help teams develop that same judgment
• Build scalable analytical systems like semantic models, trusted metrics, proactive monitoring, and AI-powered agents that surface opportunities without waiting to be asked
• Use AI to investigate faster, automate recurring analytical work, and test more hypotheses without sacrificing the judgment that makes the output useful
• Identify gaps in measurement, event instrumentation, and metric definitions, and partner with Data and Product Engineering to close them
• Serve as a trusted analytical partner to PLG leadership, using evidence and product judgment to influence investment decisions and roadmap priorities
• Influence product strategy through evidence, product instincts, and a clear point of view, without relying on formal authority to do it

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in product analytics, growth analytics, or data science, with a track record of high ownership and measurable impact on PLG or consumer product outcomes
• Deep understanding of product and growth dynamics across activation, engagement, conversion, monetization, and retention
• Demonstrated ability to turn behavioral data into product hypotheses and carry them from insight through experimentation and measured outcomes
• Deep experimentation expertise: study design, statistical reasoning, causal inference, and the judgment to know when an experiment has told you what you need to know
• Experience building analytical systems such as metrics layers, monitoring frameworks, or semantic models that teams can rely on over time
• An AI-native approach to analysis: you use AI tools actively to accelerate investigation, automate repetitive work, and surface patterns faster
• A track record of influencing senior stakeholders and product direction through analytical reasoning, clear recommendations, and sound judgment
• Comfort operating with significant autonomy in ambiguous problem spaces, including determining which questions are most important to answer
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in distributed environments, with the ability to make complex findings clear and recommendations actionable

We Offer

• Competitive salary range: $204,000 - $275,000 for most US-based locations
• Remote work options
• Participation in Netlify’s equity plan
• Comprehensive benefits package

About Netlify

Netlify is the most popular way to build, deploy, and scale modern web applications, empowering everyone from fast-moving solo developers to enterprise teams. Millions of developers and organizations rely on Netlify as their platform of choice for composing web applications that are production-ready, performant, and flexible. We are a Series D company that has raised over $200M from investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins, EQT, Bessemer, BOND, and Menlo Ventures. As a fully distributed company, we aim to create a company culture where the best idea can come from anywhere and strive to be thoughtful, compassionate, and collaborative in our work.

Applying

Not sure you meet 100% of our qualifications? Please apply anyway!

When applying, please include:

• A resume or short listing of your job history & skills (link to a LinkedIn profile would be fine)
• A cover letter explaining why you would enjoy working in this role at Netlify to get to know you a bit better (though this is not required and will not impact your application)

Our mission is to “build a better web” and that cannot be done without a diversity of skill sets, backgrounds, and thoughts. Netlify is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are devoted to building a team of people with diverse backgrounds and lifestyles. Driving equality empowers our team, enables us to innovate, and helps us maintain a more inclusive environment. We don’t discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, race, military/veteran status, citizenship, pregnancy status, or any other differences. If we can do anything to provide a better interview, i.e., accommodate a disability, then please let us know by emailing [email protected].