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Data Scientist

San Francisco, US (Hybrid)

About Mixpanel

Mixpanel turns data clarity into innovation. Trusted by more than 29,000 companies, including Workday, Pinterest, LG, and Rakuten Viber, Mixpanel’s AI-first digital analytics help teams accelerate adoption, improve retention, and ship with confidence. Powering this is an industry-leading platform that combines product and web analytics, session replay, experimentation, feature flags, and metric trees. Mixpanel delivers insights that customers trust. Visit mixpanel.com to learn more.

About The Role

The Analytics team does product research, builds analytical frameworks and forecasts, tells data stories, and makes recommendations so that Mixpanel can run on data. Since Mixpanel's mission is to enable our customers to be data-driven, it is only natural that Mixpanel itself is serious about being data-driven too. As a result our team's scope covers the entire business and product.

We believe analytics is a profession. We inform the most important decisions the company makes with our analyses. We ensure everyone at Mixpanel has easy access to the data and research they need. And because Mixpanel builds an analytics product, we are a valuable input for our product teams as they build future analysis features.

Responsibilities

  • Answer Mixpanel's biggest business and product questions to inform our strategy and operations.
  • Work with Mixpanel’s leadership to identify the highest priority strategic questions, and define a research roadmap to answer them.
  • Lead quantitative research to discover:
    • The relationships between user-level behavior in Mixpanel and organization/customer-level outcomes.
    • The best strategies for our product, marketing, and sales teams to drive higher user adoption, customer happiness, and revenue growth.
    • The best proxy metrics for teams to use to achieve company goals.
  • Conduct regular metrics and research reviews with company leaders.
  • Forecast metrics and attribute metrics trends to internal and external factors.
  • Design the right “data interfaces” or data UX for internal users in operational teams to get easy access to the right data at the right time to best do their jobs.
  • Communicate analysis insights at all levels of the organization to drive positive change.

We're Looking for Someone Who Has

  • Experience driving positive change with recommendations rooted in data analysis and quantitative research.
  • Familiarity with measuring and driving product success.
  • Deep expertise in a quantitative field (Masters degree or greater preferred).
  • Ability to work with structured and unstructured data, including:
    • Advanced SQL
    • Scripting ability in Python
  • Familiarity with cloud-based data warehouses, dbt, and collaborative data science notebooks.
  • Hands-on experience building and deploying statistical and/or machine learning models.
  • Experience collaborating effectively with teams and leaders in different parts of a business.
  • Strong written and verbal communication

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Compensation

The amount listed below is the total target cash compensation (TTCC) and includes base compensation and variable compensation in the form of either a company bonus or commissions. Variable compensation type is determined by your role and level. In addition to the cash compensation provided, this position is also eligible for equity consideration and other benefits including medical, vision, and dental insurance coverage. You can view our benefits offerings here.

Our salary ranges are determined by role and level and are benchmarked to the SF Bay Area Technology data cut released by Radford, a global compensation database. The range displayed represents the minimum and maximum TTCC for new hire salaries for the position across all of our US locations. To stay on top of market conditions, we refresh our salary ranges twice a year so these ranges may change in the future. Within the range, individual pay is determined by experience, job-related skills, qualifications, and other factors. If you have questions about the specific range, your recruiter can share this information.

Mixpanel Compensation Range

$184,500 - $225,500 USD

Benefits and Perks

  • Comprehensive Medical, Vision, and Dental Care
  • Mental Wellness Benefit
  • Generous Vacation Policy & Additional Company Holidays
  • Enhanced Parental Leave
  • Volunteer Time Off
  • Additional US Benefits: Pre-Tax Benefits including 401(K), Wellness Benefit, Holiday Break

*please note that benefits and perks for contract positions will vary*

Culture Values

  • Make Bold Bets: We choose courageous action over comfortable progress.
  • Innovate with Insight: We tackle decisions with rigor and judgment - combining data, experience and collective wisdom to drive powerful outcomes.
  • One Team: We collaborate across boundaries to achieve far greater impact than any of us could accomplish alone.
  • Candor with Connection: We build meaningful relationships that enable honest feedback and direct conversations.
  • Champion the Customer: We seek to deeply understand our customers’ needs, ensuring their success is our north star.
  • Powerful Simplicity: We find elegant solutions to complex problems, making sophisticated things accessible.

Why choose Mixpanel?

We’re a leader in analytics with over 9,000 customers and $277M raised from prominent investors: like Andreessen-Horowitz, Sequoia, YC, and, most recently, Bain Capital. Mixpanel’s pioneering event-based data analytics platform offers a powerful yet simple solution for companies to understand user behaviors and easily track overarching company success metrics. Our accomplished teams continuously facilitate our expansion by tackling the ever-evolving challenges tied to scaling, reliability, design, and service. Choosing to work at Mixpanel means you’ll be helping the world’s most innovative companies learn from their data so they can make better decisions.

Mixpanel is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity. At Mixpanel, we are focused on things that really matter—our people, our customers, our partners—out of a recognition that those relationships are the most valuable assets we have. We actively encourage women, people with disabilities, veterans, underrepresented minorities, and LGBTQ+ people to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance or other similar laws that may be applicable, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. We’ve immersed ourselves in our Culture and Values as our guiding principles for the impact we want to have and the future we are building.

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