Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Kindred is a members-only home swapping platform that unlocks the ability to live a travel-rich lifestyle through the power of community. As a Staff Data Scientist, you will lead the technical strategy for the core product experience, focusing on matching optimization and marketplace health while collaborating with product managers and engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Act as a Strategic Thought Partner: Partner directly with Product Managers and other leaders to frame key business problems, define our measurement strategy, and guide product innovations
• Architect Marketplace Intelligence: Build and deploy sophisticated predictive models to refine Kindred’s matching algorithms, optimizing for growth, trust and liquidity
• Lead and Scale Experimentation: Own the end-to-end experimental framework, applying advanced causal inference to measure the ripple effects of product changes on community sentiment and marketplace health
• Own the Full-Stack Data Lifecycle: Lead the design of robust event structures with Product Engineers and collaborate with Data Engineering to build a scalable data platform that ensures our data is 'born clean' and ready for modeling
• Influence and Educate: Translate complex analytical concepts into clear, actionable recommendations and effectively persuade senior stakeholders to adopt data-informed strategies

Skills

• 8+ years of experience in a quantitative role such as data science, with a proven track record of influencing strategy at a leadership level, preferably within a consumer tech or marketplace company
• Expert in SQL and Python/R, with a proven ability to move a project from a whiteboard concept to a production-grade ML model, and experience with modern data warehouses
• Deep experience going beyond simple A/B tests to measure product impact in networked environments where interference and spillover are present
• Exceptional communication skills, with a proven ability to simplify complex concepts and persuade senior stakeholders to trust the data and embrace new measurement strategies
• Think in Systems, not just Features: You naturally consider 'spillover effects'—understanding how a boost in one area of the platform might impact another part of the community ecosystem, understanding the delicate balance between host and guest needs in a high-trust, community-driven environment
• Are a Technical Force Multiplier: You have a track record of leveling up the teams around you, setting the standard for code quality, and effectively communicating complex technical risks to non-technical partners
• Are passionate about the sharing economy and building a world where everyone feels at home anywhere

Benefits

• Offers Equity
• Comprehensive health benefits
• Flexible time off, plus 12 paid holidays per year
• 21 credits per year to stay in Kindred homes
• $4,000 annual travel stipend to help offset travel-related costs
• Remote-first and remote-flexible work environment, with opportunities to work from anywhere and gather in person, including at Kindred HQ in San Francisco
• Regular team and company offsites to connect, collaborate, and build together
• A vibrant, inclusive, and highly skilled team that ferociously protects team chemistry
• A culture of high standards, feedback, and continual growth

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