Handshake - Senior Data Scientist, Product Analytics

• Partner with Product, Engineering, and R&D leadership to define and measure marketplace health, liquidity, pricing, and growth. • Own analytics strategy, domain metrics, goal setting, and reporting for your product area. • Lead experimentation, including test design, instrumentation, analysis, and recommendations. • Partner with our Relevance team to evaluate and benchmark machine learning models. • Conduct deep analyses across user behavior, funnels, cohorts, and marketplace performance to uncover actionable insights. • Collaborate with Analytics Engineering to define trusted metrics and scalable data models. • Build dashboards and reporting that enable fast, data-driven decision making. • Champion AI-powered workflows and help shape the future of Product Analytics at Handshake. • Desired Capabilities • 5+ years of experience as a Data Scientist or Product Analyst driving product strategy through data. • Expert-level SQL skills with experience analyzing large, complex datasets. • Strong experience with experimentation, A/B testing, and statistical analysis. • Experience partnering closely with Product Managers, Engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders. • Python experience for analytics (e.g., Jupyter notebooks, pandas). • Strong business intuition with the ability to translate data into strategic recommendations. • Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence technical and executive audiences. • High ownership mindset with the ability to independently drive ambiguous projects to completion. • Extra Credit • Experience working on marketplace, pricing, or growth analytics. • Experience supporting machine learning model evaluation or benchmarking. • Experience with BI and visualization tools such as Hex, Mode, or similar platforms. • Enthusiasm for AI-first ways of working and leveraging AI tools to accelerate analysis and decision making.