Senior Staff Data Scientist

About the Team

Netlify’s Data team helps the company understand and improve the full product-led growth journey, from activation and engagement through conversion, retention, and monetization. We partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Growth to uncover opportunities, evaluate investments, and understand what drives customer and business outcomes.

We’re hiring a Senior Staff Data Scientist to deepen how data shapes our product and growth strategy. You’ll develop an end-to-end understanding of the PLG journey, proactively identify opportunities, and turn complex data into hypotheses, experiments, and recommendations that influence where we invest and what we build. This is a highly autonomous role for someone who can move from identifying an important question to shaping the approach, defining success, and driving toward an answer.

What You'll Do

Own the analytical understanding of Netlify’s PLG performance across activation, engagement, conversion, monetization, and retention, identifying opportunities before they become requests

Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to turn behavioral insights into product bets, defining what to test, how to measure it, and what the results mean

Lead experimentation from hypothesis through decision, including study design, methodology, success metrics, guardrails, analysis, and recommendations

Apply statistical rigor where it matters while recognizing when there is enough signal to make a decision and move forward, and help teams develop that same judgment

Build scalable analytical systems like semantic models, trusted metrics, proactive monitoring, and AI-powered agents that surface opportunities without waiting to be asked

Use AI to investigate faster, automate recurring analytical work, and test more hypotheses without sacrificing the judgment that makes the output useful

Identify gaps in measurement, event instrumentation, and metric definitions, and partner with Data and Product Engineering to close them

Serve as a trusted analytical partner to PLG leadership, using evidence and product judgment to influence investment decisions and roadmap priorities

Influence product strategy through evidence, product instincts, and a clear point of view, without relying on formal authority to do it

What You'll Bring

8+ years of experience in product analytics, growth analytics, or data science, with a track record of high ownership and measurable impact on PLG or consumer product outcomes

Deep understanding of product and growth dynamics across activation, engagement, conversion, monetization, and retention

Demonstrated ability to turn behavioral data into product hypotheses and carry them from insight through experimentation and measured outcomes

Deep experimentation expertise: study design, statistical reasoning, causal inference, and the judgment to know when an experiment has told you what you need to know

Experience building analytical systems such as metrics layers, monitoring frameworks, or semantic models that teams can rely on over time

An AI-native approach to analysis: you use AI tools actively to accelerate investigation, automate repetitive work, and surface patterns faster

A track record of influencing senior stakeholders and product direction through analytical reasoning, clear recommendations, and sound judgment

Comfort operating with significant autonomy in ambiguous problem spaces, including determining which questions are most important to answer

Strong written and verbal communication skills in distributed environments, with the ability to make complex findings clear and recommendations actionable

This Role is a Great Fit If

You're energized by finding the opportunity before anyone thought to ask - proactive discovery is how you naturally work, not a mode you shift into

You think like a product person who happens to be exceptionally rigorous with data, not a data person who occasionally weighs in on product

You thrive when the problem