Data Scientist, Notion
Product
$136-160k
More information about location
3+ days a week in office
Online workspace for notes, projects, and collaboration
Open for applications
Online workspace for notes, projects, and collaboration
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$136-160k
More information about location
3+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To shape both the future of work, and the future of productivity tools.
Role
Who you are
- You have spent meaningful time as a data scientist partnering with product and engineering teams. You can draw on that experience to identify where data can have the most impact and clearly communicate to your partner teams what that impact is
- You have expertise in SQL and at least one scripting language (ideally Python or R)
- You know how to use statistical inference and experimentation to drive actionable recommendations
- You have experience building predictive models, and you know how to evaluate their effectiveness
- You are comfortable transforming raw data to build your own data sets if the measure you need doesn't exist yet
- 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
What the job involves
- Data scientists on this team work closely with engineering teams to transform data into evidence that can direct product decisions
- As an early member of the product data science team, you'll be instrumental in setting the roadmap for how product, engineering, and data science work together, and then doing the hands on work to execute against it
- There will be significant variation from one day to the next, but whether you're exploring what a successful Notion account looks like, building out a core activity data set, or running experiments to evaluate the success of a key feature launch, you'll absolutely impact the development of Notion
- You will apply your expertise in statistical inference, data mining, and the presentation of data to see beyond the numbers and understand how our users interact with Notion
- You will dive into ambiguous areas, define problems and opportunities for the team to work on the next influential project
- You'll design the right set of experiments or analyses to evaluate the success of new features
- You'll partner closely with a product, engineering, and marketing pillar at every step of the development process, driving forward data science and analytics work in that area
- You'll work with your teams to determine both north star and operational metrics, and build and maintain the dashboards that those teams rely on for monitoring progress and making key decisions
- You'll influence your product roadmap by communicating your findings with the rest of the company, and driving and verifying change in our product and business. (Insights are useful. Impact is even better!)
Our take
Managing busy workflows using fragmented systems can be a headache for both individuals and businesses. Notion aims to combat this problem by enabling users to work from one central hub, customizing their workflows to suit their exact needs. This includes managing files, scheduling tasks, saving documents, writing to-do-lists, and setting reminders.
The company counts enterprise companies such as McDonald’s, The Wall Street Journal, Verizon, Samsung, and IBM as its customers. In spite of economic uncertainty, Notion reached a $2 billion valuation in 2020, helped by record signups as more people were forced to work from home. Its value has since risen to over 5 times this value, an impressive reflection of its success.
The company has made a number of strategic acquisitions that, coupled with its enormous market value and enviable customer list, have Notion well-placed to continue dominating the market. That being said, the launch of Microsoft-built competitor Loop at the end of 2023 will put Notion's market dominance to the test.
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Company Specialist
Insights
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back within 2 weeks
183% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Oct 2021
$275m
LATE VC
Apr 2020
$50m
LATE VC
Total funding: $335m
Company benefits
- Dog-friendly office
- 401k matching
- Parental leaave
- Free lunches
- Equipment stipend
- Monthly commuter credits
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- Put Users First
- Quality With Speed
- Dedication Is Contagious
- Feedback Is A Gift
- Run The Front Page Test
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Ivan Zhao
(CEO)Ivan worked for Inkling for 2 years in Product, but was disappointed by the lack of a simple way of collaborating on projects. To fit this need, he co-founded Notion in 2013, serving as CEO since.
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