Data Scientist

About us

At Udemy, we’re on a mission to transform lives through learning. Through our intelligent skills platform and a global community of instructors, we’ve helped nearly 80 million learners and more than 17,000 organizations achieve their goals. Come join us in ensuring everyone, everywhere has access to the skills they need to unlock their potential and create possibilities for themselves and others. Learn more about us on our company page.

Where we work

Udemy is a global company headquartered in San Francisco, with additional U.S. offices in Denver and Austin, and international hubs in Australia, India, Ireland, Mexico, and Türkiye. This is an in-office position, requiring three days a week in the office (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) and flexibility on Mondays and Fridays.

About your skills:

• Statistical Analysis & Experimentation - You can design and analyze experiments and identify causal impacts using a range of tools (like  A/B tests and synthetic control) on payment and checkout flows to uncover actionable insights. You not only interpret quantitative results but also challenge assumptions and present findings that can drive business impact.

• Advanced Data Fluency:

  You can efficiently extract, clean, and analyze large-scale transactional datasets using advanced SQL and Python skills. You recognize patterns, diagnose anomalies, and surface key insights to inform improvements in checkout conversion, authorization rates, and payment efficiency.

• Influence and Communication: You distill complex analyses into clear, compelling visualizations and narratives using tools like Tableau. You tailor your communication to stakeholders at all levels, ensuring that insights lead to informed, data-driven decisions.

About this role:

Data Scientists at Udemy draw on a combination of quantitative methods and business intuition to find actionable insights that drive key business decisions, answering questions such as: What metrics should business areas be monitoring and goaling against? What are potential causes for changes in customer behavior? 

You should expect to excel in several highly critical functions: 

• Serve as subject matter expert in the payments and checkouts domain 

• Identify, scope, and execute on data-driven analyses to help guide business decisions 

• Act as a data evangelist to create a data-driven culture across the company

• Success in this role requires a combination of business intuition, broad knowledge of statistical methods, practical data analysis experience, and strong communication and collaboration skills.

What you’ll be doing:

• Collaborate with stakeholders to inform business direction

• Proactively influence prioritization through data-driven insights

• Design and analyze standard experiments and conduct ad hoc analyses

• Define metrics and build dashboards to track product and business health

• Continuously improve the quality and accessibility of data

• Knowledge and willingness to use the right tool (a scripted model, a dashboard, a presentation) for each analysis

What you’ll have:

• 3+ years of relevant experience in a combination of business/analytics roles (e.g. data science/analytics, management consulting, or business operations)

• Ability to communicate effectively with non-technical stakeholders

• Strong business intuition and judgement

• Expert level data storytelling and data visualization ability

• Broad knowledge of applied statistics, experimental design, and causal inference

• Expert SQL ability and proficiency with 1+ programming languages (e.g., R or Python)

• Experience with BI tools (e.g. Looker, PowerBI, or Tableau)

We understand that not everyone will match each of the above qualifications. However, we also realize that everyone has unique experiences that can add value to our company. Even if you think your background might not perfectly align, we'd love to hear from you!

Life at Udemy 

We aspire to be as vibrant and dynamic as the communities we serve, as inquisitive as those who use our platform, and as revolutionary as the future we strive to open for everyone. Here are some of the things we love about life at Udemy:

• We’re invested in creating an inclusive environment that welcomes a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences. From creating employee resource groups, ensuring we’re a Fair Pay Workplace, and building a flexible work culture, our belonging, equity, diversity, and inclusion (BEDI) initiatives always put our people first. We want you to be able to bring your authentic self to work because when we all do, we’re better for it.

• Learning is what we do – inside and out. Our Learning & Development team is second to none, helping ensure your journey is one of continuous progression. You’ll also have unlimited access to Udemy courses, monthly UDays (meeting-free professional development days), and a generous annual professional development stipend.

• Our reason to exist is to revolutionize learning – that calls for taking risks and learning from failures. Whether it’s our hackathons (a company-wide effort to envision new possibilities for our product) or sharing our prototypes, we see experimentation as a crucial step on the path to success.

• We’re committed to creating world-class employee experiences and are proud of the recognition of this by Great Place to Work. 

Of course, the best thing about being part of Udemy is knowing your work makes a difference for people and organizations around the world. You’ve got the skills; why not use them to help others develop theirs?

At Udemy, we value diversity and inclusion and consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, medical condition, or disability. 

Our Benefits Start with U

Our benefits start with you and were built to provide you and your family with the protection and care you need, making it easy to access the right coverage when you need it most. Benefits vary by region, and we encourage applicants to review our US Benefits,  Ireland Benefits & Turkiye Benefits pages to get an understanding of some of the benefits we offer. For details on region-specific benefits, please refer to the information provided during the hiring process. 

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