Data Scientist

Who you are

• Availability for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora's “coordination hours" (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)
• 2+ years work experience in an analytical or quantitative role, including 1+ as a Data Scientist or similar title
• Demonstrated ability to independently drive data analyses that inform product or business decisions
• Proficiency with statistical techniques (e.g. regression, hypothesis testing, causal inference) and their practical application
• Effective communication skills, including the ability to translate business needs into analytical questions and to explain technical results to cross-functional partners
• Experience using a procedural programming language (e.g. Python, R) for data manipulation, modeling, and analysis; comfort working in a production codebase
• Strong judgment that blends quantitative rigor with product intuition and common sense
• Experience evaluating experiments or recommender systems in offline analysis and online experiments
• Experience with large data sets and distributed computing tools (e.g. Presto/Trino)
• Active Quora user with curiosity about the product
• We encourage all candidates who share a passion for growing the world’s knowledge, even those who may not strictly meet all the preferred requirements, to apply, as we know that a diverse range of perspectives can have a significant impact on our products and our culture

What the job involves

• The Data Team is highly empowered at Quora, helping navigate complexity and influencing product and company strategy directly
• Quora's outsized commitment to data is visible in everything we do, from our sophisticated experimentation processes to the backgrounds of our leaders
• With this emphasis on data and empirics, we aim to balance rigor and pragmatism, searching for scrappy solutions in pursuit of our mission
• In joining Quora's strong data team, you'll both benefit from and help advance our culture of rational decision making
• As a member of our team, you'll work closely with product managers, product designers, engineers, and other cross-functional partners to devise appropriate measurements and metrics, design randomized controlled experiments, build visualizations, and tackle hard, open-ended problems that uncover usage patterns and opportunities across Quora
• Quora has a wide range of rich data, giving you ample room for exploration and creativity
• Data scientists at Quora work across multiple domains, including user growth, content quality, monetization, personalization, marketplace dynamics, and long-term company strategy
• Example projects include modeling long-term growth, improving the relevance and personalization of the homepage feed, analyzing drivers of user engagement and question-asking behavior, optimizing marketplace efficiency, and evaluating the effectiveness of monetization initiatives
• Own well-scoped, impactful problem spaces across product and business domains — from framing the question, to conducting the analysis, to working with cross-functional partners to implement solutions
• Design and evaluate experiments to measure the impact of product and strategic changes
• Analyze data from across the product to uncover root causes of metric movements
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to inform product decisions with data
• Contribute to tools, methodologies, and frameworks that help make the data team and the company as a whole smarter about data