Data Scientist, Saturn
$160-200k
Plus equity
Social & calendar app for High Schools
Job no longer available
Social & calendar app for High Schools
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$160-200k
Plus equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
Saturn's mission is to build community around the calendar.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of experience in data science, quantitative research, and/or analytics
- Deep experience and second-nature fluency in: SQL, Python, Applied statistics and causal inference, and machine learning methods
- Strong product and business sense and opinions
- The ability to communicate complex ideas crisply
- A team-first mentality and a leader and teacher to peers
- An impatient bias for action
What the job involves
- As a founding data team member at Saturn, you will have outsized influence in steering the company’s direction and establishing data practices and infrastructure
- Ensuring partner teams are organized around the right operational metrics
- Advancing the company through insightful analysis and research
- Driving optimization through experimentation and machine learning
- Contributing to data infrastructure and team best practices to increase velocity
- Evaluating which features and tactics are predictive of high schools' growth
- Evaluating feature launches and usage
- Developing a share/invite contact suggestions ranker
- Developing our dbt model and automated reporting functionality
- Optimizing ad spend
Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
Saturn is attempting to rejuvenate the social-media space with a calendar-based app for high-schoolers to track their schedules, interact with classmates, and access important information. By layering messaging and other social features on top of a calendar feature, built especially for hectic school schedules, Saturn has seen explosive growth and is now active in institutions across the US.
Despite claiming this early success, the app has more recently been plagued by safety concerns - with parents claiming they were able to create fake profiles with little issue and access information including links to students' other social accounts and even their schedules. It has responded quickly with promises to improve security, but for now the damage to Saturn's reputation is clear - and it may take a while for it to find its momentum again.
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2021
$44m
LATE VC
Apr 2019
$9m
SEED
Total funding: $53m
Company HQ
SoHo, New York, NY
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Founders
Dylan Diamond
(CEO)Attended Wharton in Management with a BS in engineering. Worked at Tesla, and is a Thiel Fellow.
Max Baron
(COO/CSO)Attended Wharton School. Previously founded a brand agency called Havas.
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