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Data Scientist - Product

Perplexity

Perplexity

Product, Data Science
San Francisco, CA, USA
USD 200k-300k / year + Equity
Posted on Nov 5, 2025

Location

San Francisco

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Hybrid

Department

Data Science

We are hiring for a data scientist to work on our core consumer product. As an early member of the Data Science team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the direction of our product and company. This is an opportunity to join a fast-growing startup and help define the data science function. You will have the chance to contribute to our mission to be the world's most knowledge-centric company by reshaping the future of search and technology.

Responsibilities

  • Develop data-driven insights from user behavior to inform our product roadmap and accelerate adoption

  • Come up with hypotheses and validate them by designing, running, and analyzing A/B tests

  • Figure out the right metrics and visualizations to track and implement them in dashboards, from features to company-wide

  • Work closely with other functions, such as engineering, product, growth, design, and user research.

  • Build tables to make analysis more efficient and make data more accessible

Qualifications

  • 6-8+ years of experience working as a data scientist or related role

  • Have worked at a fast-growing company working on consumer and/or growth

  • SQL expert

  • Extensive A/B testing experience

  • Extensive experience building dashboards using BI tools (ex: Omni, Mode, Hex, Looker or similar tools)

  • Self-starter and take ownership of your work end-to-end

  • Comfortable with open-ended problems

  • Some experience with data modeling

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with dbt

  • Comfortable with Python

  • Experience with Snowflake (especially as an admin)

  • Experience as one of the first data scientists at an early/growth stage company

  • Data engineering and/or analytics engineering experience

  • ML experience

The cash compensation range for this role is $200,000 - $300,000.

Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including, experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.

Equity: In addition to the base salary, equity may be part of the total compensation package.

Benefits: Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents. Includes a 401(k) plan.