Senior Data Scientist

Join us on our mission to make a better world of work. 

Culture Amp is the world’s leading employee experience platform, revolutionizing how 25 million employees across more than 6,500 companies create a better world of work. Culture Amp empowers companies of all sizes and industries to transform employee engagement, drive performance management, and develop high-performing teams. Powered by people science and the most comprehensive employee dataset in the world, the most innovative companies including Canva, On, Asana, Dolby, McDonalds and Nasdaq depend on Culture Amp every day.

Culture Amp is backed by leading venture capital funds and has offices in the US, UK, Germany and Australia. Culture Amp has been recognized as one of the world’s top private cloud companies by Forbes and most innovative companies by Fast Company.

For more information visit cultureamp.com.

About the role

Culture Amp is building toward a future where leaders and managers get meaningful, connected insights about their workforce: how engagement relates to performance, retention, team structure, and the other forces that shape how people experience work. We're early in this journey, and this role will help shape what that looks like.

You'll join our Data Products team, working alongside data scientists, engineers, and analysts who collectively own our benchmark pipelines, data enrichment, and the insights we surface to customers. Your focus will be on two things: making our workforce data richer and more reliable (standardising hierarchy data, tenure, demographics), and discovering insights that are genuinely useful to the leaders and managers who use our platform.

This isn't a role where you'll be handed a well-defined model to optimise. You'll be doing exploratory work to find patterns that matter, building and validating models, and working with engineers to productionise what you find. Some of your work will ship through Coach, our AI assistant, so you'll be directly influencing what insights our customers see and act on.

You'll also help maintain and improve our engagement survey benchmarks (one of the largest datasets of its kind), though most of your time will be on newer, less charted territory.

You'll work closely with the rest of the data science team, as well as engineers who can help take your work into production.

What you'll do

• Lead discovery work to find meaningful patterns in workforce data: what predicts engagement, retention, and performance outcomes?
• Build and validate statistical models and ML approaches to surface actionable insights
• Improve data quality and standardisation for workforce attributes like hierarchy, tenure, and demographics
• Partner with engineers to productionise insights, including integration with Coach
• Contribute to our engagement benchmarks: methodology improvements, new cuts, data quality
• Help shape the longer-term insights roadmap based on what you learn

What we're looking for

• Around 4–6 years of experience in data science or a related quantitative role
• Strong foundation in statistics and classical ML, with the judgment to pick the right tool for the problem
• Solid data modelling instincts: you understand how to structure and clean messy workforce data
• Expertise in Python and SQL with a focus on writing clean, reusable code to deliver end-to-end data science solutions.
• Experience taking models from exploration to production, even if you had help from engineers
• Clear thinking and communication: you can explain what you found and why it matters to product and business stakeholders
• You can present data in an interactive way that surfaces insights and conveys meaning to non-technical stakeholders. An interest or knack for data visualisation would be a bonus.
• Curiosity about the "so what": you care whether the correlations you find are actually useful
• Bonus points if you have experience with HR/people analytics data, causal inference, working with LLMs (RAG, prompting, evaluation), or building insights products.

We believe that our employees are the heartbeat of our success. We're committed to fostering a work environment that truly cares for and develops its people, and creates lasting positive impact. In addition to providing a competitive compensation package, some of the key benefits we offer are: 

• Employee Share Options Program: We empower you to be an owner in Culture Amp and share in our success
• Programs, coaching, and budgets to help you thrive personally and professionally
• Access to external providers for mental wellbeing and coaching support to sustain the wellbeing, safety and development of our people
• Monthly Camper Life Allowance: An automatic allowance paid out each month with your pay - you can spend it however you like to help improve your experience and life outside work
• Team budgets dedicated to team building activities and connection
• Intentional quarterly wellbeing pauses: A quarterly company-wide shutdown day in each region to to collectively pause, reset and focus on restoration and rest, without having to tap into individual vacation time
• Extended year-end breaks: An extended refresh period at the end of year
• Excellent parental leave and in work support program available from day 1 of joining Culture Amp
• 5 Social Impact Days a year to make a positive impact on the community outside of work
• MacBooks for you to do your best & a work from home office budget to spend on setting up your home office
• Medical insurance coverage for you and your family (Available for US & UK only) 

Additionally, we don't just focus on our internal community; we believe in creating a better world of work for all. We're committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, with Employee Resource Groups and ally communities in place. 

We have a strong commitment to Anti-Racism, and endeavor to lead by example. Every step we make as a business towards anti-racism is another step we can take to support our customers in making a better world (of work). You can see our current commitments to Anti-Racism here.

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Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don't apply for roles if they don't meet all the criteria – unlike majority candidates meeting significantly fewer requirements.

We strongly encourage you to apply if you’re interested: we'd love to know how you can amplify our team with your unique experience!

If you decide to apply, as part of your application, we will ask you to complete voluntary diversity questions (excluding roles in Germany). These questions are completely optional, but your participation truly helps. By sharing this anonymous information, you support our efforts to build a more inclusive and equitable hiring process—and help us hold ourselves accountable to that commitment. Your responses are entirely confidential and will not impact hiring decisions.

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