Staff Data Scientist, Discord

Analytics, Notifications

$223-245.5k

+ Equity

SQL
Tableau
Looker
BigQuery
Senior and Expert level
Remote in US
San Francisco Bay Area
Discord

Voice, video and text communication platform

Be an early applicant

Discord

Voice, video and text communication platform

1001+ employees

B2CGamingCommunicationSocialSocial MediaCommunity

Be an early applicant

$223-245.5k

+ Equity

SQL
Tableau
Looker
BigQuery
Senior and Expert level
Remote in US
San Francisco Bay Area

1001+ employees

B2CGamingCommunicationSocialSocial MediaCommunity

Company mission

Discord's mission is to help friends and communities come together to hang out and explore their interests.

Role

Who you are

  • If you’re driven by data, eager to make a meaningful impact, and excited to collaborate with an amazing team, we want to hear from you
  • If you’re passionate about data, impact, and working on an amazing team, read on!
  • 7+ years of experience autonomously translating ambiguous business problems into deep informative insights through hands-on analysis
  • 7+ years of experience building performant dashboards using Tableau, Looker, or similar software - with proficiency in designing clean crisp visualizations
  • 6+ years experience writing robust, efficient and performant SQL
  • 4+ years of experience in the design, analysis, and interpretation of sound A/B tests in a fast-paced environment at scale
  • Experience with technical leadership, being the point person for one or more stakeholder groups
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to deliver complicated findings and explain technical approaches to a variety of audiences
  • Ability to own complex projects from end-to-end, identifying the need for and coordinating cross-functional partnerships
  • Aptitude to proactively identify gaps in data infrastructure, evaluate potential solutions, and coordinate cross-functionally to address issues
  • Last but not least - a collaborative attitude and a healthy dose of natural curiosity!

Desirable

  • Passion for Discord and/or online communities
  • Experience with analytics for social media or international subscription-based online services, including familiarity with concepts such as social graphs, LTV analysis, funnel analysis, etc
  • Experience with notification system/platform and lifecycle management
  • Experience writing performant code in BigQuery SQL

What the job involves

  • Discord is seeking an experienced and passionate Staff Data Scientist to join our world-class Data Science & Analytics team
  • In this role, you will play a key part in helping Discord fulfill its mission of creating a sense of belonging in online communities
  • You’ll work closely with the teams that design, build, and support Discord, providing insights that directly influence user growth and enhance the user experience
  • Partner with teams throughout Discord through the full lifecycle of data science from ideation and exploratory analysis, to building dashboards and reports, and A/B testing
  • Define KPIs and diagnostic metrics that help improve the user experience, encapsulating these measures in clean crisp dashboards that provide the company with timely and actionable information
  • Use our amazing infrastructure to quickly and easily build custom data sets to monitor novel product features and processes
  • Proactively socialize insights, dashboards, and reports with technical and non-technical audiences, soliciting feedback on where to improve
  • Be a champion of A/B testing and help groups throughout the company design, analyze, and interpret A/B tests correctly
  • Collaborate with data and engineering teams to design scalable and future-proof instrumentation

Our take

Discord is an industry giant in the chat app space. The free platform has rapidly become one of the most popular services in the sector since being founded in 2015. It counts over 150 million active users in 19 million communities, successfully expanding beyond its original focus on video game players to become a broader social networking app and public forum.

Discord's userbase has grown rapidly as remote work has become the norm and a new generation of internet users has come online, attracted to its youthful presentation and plethora of gaming and social tools. It has since fended off takeover bids from Microsoft and interest from other giants such as Amazon and Twitter, and has grown into a profitable company, funded by optional subscription fees and commissions from sales through the platform.

Discord’s remarkable growth, however, is not without obstacles. The company faces competition from deep-pocketed giants like Facebook, and regulatory concerns from those worried about the platform’s relatively light chat moderation. However, the company has the resources and expertise to adapt. For example, the acquisition of harassment detection software company Sentropy will go a long way towards placating the concerns of critics, as will the 2024 acquisition of teen app Gas used to give anonymous compliments to friends. All of these purchases are part of Discord's move to expand out of its mostly gaming-focused customer base.

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Steph

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Insights

Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

28% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)

Sep 2021

$500m

SERIES H

Dec 2020

$100m

SERIES H

Total funding: $979.3m

Company benefits

  • Comprehensive medical insurance including Health, Dental and Vision
  • Mental health resources and quarterly wellness stipends
  • 16+ paid holidays, 4 weeks of PTO + use-what-you-need sick days
  • Paid parental leave (plus fertility, adoption and other family planning benefits)
  • Flexible long-term work options (remote and hybrid)
  • Volunteer time off
  • A diverse slate of Employee Resource Groups
  • Plus commuter contributions and other perks for office-based employees

Company values

  • Autonomy
  • Mastery
  • Purpose
  • Compassion

Company HQ

Potrero Hill, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Started out as a programmer at Papaya Studio, Stormfront Studios and Doublefine Productions. Also founded OpenFeint, a global mobile social gaming company.

Worked as a Software Engineer at Casamba and then Kabam. Was Lead Software Engineer at GREE International, and founded social network Guildwork.com in 2009.

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