Lead Data Scientist, Product

What You’ll Do

• Conduct in-depth analysis to shape product PLG motion and B2B strategy.
• Develop deep understanding of the product ecosystem and identify opportunities to drive activation, engagement, and monetization through actionable insights.
• Leveraging AI tools to build and maintain self-service analytics enabling stakeholders to access reliable metrics, size opportunities, design experiments, and interpret results independently.
• Improve execution rigor of product teams by owning success metrics and opportunity sizing.
• Brain buddy with product and engineering teams for day-to-day experiment design, deployment, and analysis. Provide creative solutions for tricky experimentation scenarios.
• Evolve experimentation culture and practices within the company.

What You Bring

• 5–8 years of experience in a Data Scientist or similar role.
• 3+ years working in a growth function.
• Strong business and product intuition to identify opportunities in the growth ecosystem.
• Strong knowledge of statistical analysis and A/B tests.
• Strong SQL skills and proficient in at least one programming language such as Python or R.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Curiosity, savviness to navigate in a dynamic environment, and a growth mindset.
• Having worked at a fast-growing start-up is a plus.

About Descript

Descript is building a simple, intuitive, fully-powered editing tool for video and audio — an editing tool built for the age of AI. We are a team of 150 and the backing of some of the world's greatest investors (OpenAI, Andreessen Horowitz, Redpoint Ventures, Spark Capital).

Descript is the special company that's in possession of both product market fit and the raw materials (passionate user community, great product, large market) for growth, but is still early enough that each new employee has a measurable influence on the direction of the company.

Benefits include a generous healthcare package, 401k matching program, catered lunches, and flexible vacation time.

Descript is an equal opportunity workplace—we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status.