Data Scientist II, Monetization & Pricing

Thumbtack helps millions of people confidently care for their homes.

Thumbtack is the one app you need to take care of and improve your home from personalized guidance to AI tools and a best-in-class hiring experience. Every day in every county of the U.S. people turn to Thumbtack to complete urgent repairs seasonal maintenance and bigger improvements. We help homeowners know which projects to do when to do them and who to hire from our growing community of 300000 local service businesses. If making an impact inspires you join us. Imagine what well build together.

About the Data Science Team

The Data Science team empowers Thumbtack to use data to guide business decisions. We collaborate with partners across the company to solve the most analytically challenging problems -- everything from informing how we set prices across almost a thousand local services categories to evaluating the impact of a new business model on company performance to identifying early predictors of high-quality customers. We are a tight-knit intellectually curious team that is committed to improving Thumbtack and improving each other.

About the Role

Data Scientists at Thumbtack are empowered early on to leverage their critical thinking interpersonal and technical skills to make a positive impact on the company. Data Scientist embed with product teams to support new product feature launches study the economics of our massive and dynamic marketplace and help inform strategy. As a Data Scientist youll be the person responsible for all the analytical needs of an entire team of engineers designers and product/marketing managers -- helping empower the team and Thumbtack more broadly to build the best product as quickly as possible.

What youll do

• Propose and conduct quantitative research into key user behaviors product flows and business trends; based on analysis and in collaboration with cross-functional partners identify potential new opportunities and next steps for the product team

• Design and analyze experiments and other tests for causal inference in collaboration with engineers applied scientists and economists

• Partner with product managers engineers etc. to help scope new features e.g. scenario modeling for possible impact on key metrics make recommendations on business logic of new features etc.

• Define and monitor key metrics; investigate changes in metrics and propose next steps

• Develop topic area expertise e.g. develop a deep understanding of how Thumbtack search works and interacts with other systems

• Contribute to our team and company data culture through accessible data table design and maintenance

• Collaborate with mentor and help recruit team members

In order to be successful you must bring

• 2 years of experience in data science analytics or economics

• Experience managing stakeholders with competing priorities in areas such as Product Management Design Engineering and Marketing

• Experience scoping analyzing and communicating results of experiments

• Expert in SQL

• Strong communication skills and ability to build strong relationships cross-functionally and with leadership

• Bachelors Masters or Doctoral degree in a technical area such as: Statistics Engineering Analytics Math Computer Science Operations Research Economics

Expected salary ranges

• For candidates living in Ontario and British Columbia the expected salary range for the role is currently $150500 - $194700.

Actual offered salaries will vary and will be based on various factors such as calibrated job level qualifications skills competencies and proficiency for the role.

Thumbtack embraces diversity. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and do not discriminate on the basis of sex race color age pregnancy sexual orientation gender identity or expression religion national origin ancestry citizenship marital status military or veteran status genetic information disability status or any other characteristic protected by federal provincial state or local law. We also will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records consistent with applicable law.

Thumbtack is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation for a medical condition or disability during any part of the application process please contact: .

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