Senior Data Scientist, New Initiatives

Dropbox is a special place where we are all seeking to fulfill our mission to design a more enlightened way of working. We’re looking for innovative talent to join us on our journey. The words shared by our founders at the start of Dropbox still ring true today.
Wouldn’t it be great if our working environment—and the tools we use—were designed with people’s actual needs in mind? Imagine if every minute at work were well spent—if we could focus and spend our time on the things that matter. This is possible, and Dropbox is connecting the dots.
The nearly 3,000 Dropboxers around the world have helped make Dropbox a living workspace - the place where people come together and their ideas come to life. Our 700+ million global users have been some of our best salespeople, and they have helped us acquire customers with incredible efficiency. As a result, we reached a billion dollar revenue run rate faster than any software-as-a-service company in history.
Dropbox is making the dream of a fulfilling and seamless work life a reality. We hope you’ll join us on the journey.

Our Product team advocates for our users and our business, setting the vision for our growing family of products. We use data, research, strategy, and empathy to guide multidisciplinary teams toward a common goal, balancing diverse perspectives and empowering our teams to do great work. As we scale globally, there’s plenty of space for you to grow alongside us and simplify life for millions of people around the world in team that always focuses on we, not I, and creates delightful products that are worthy of trust.

How many times you get an opportunity to be at the ground floor on a very big and important mission? What if you get to be one of the top contributors defining the mission, guiding our teams and influencing the direction of Dropbox AI-first mission? As a Sr Data Scientist in Growth/GTM/Monetization for this new division, you will exactly get to do that. You will join a team of top-tier data scientists and be an inherent part of the product org to create and scale this new business.

As a ground floor opportunity for this startup team, we need this DS to build a top-tier data-informed culture with a strong background on the Growth/GTM/Monetization impacts and execution!

• You will create a culture of strong technical ownership, resulting in highly reliable products and services at scale
• You will have the seat at the table for every key decision for growth and marketing strategies
• You will serve as the Growth/GTM/Monetization data leader in balancing urgency vs. the incredibly high quality bar expected by both our customers and the broader Dropbox organization, through clear and repeatable data informed approach
• You will build the reliable, efficient, and scalable data foundations and daily execution standards, tools, and processes for our AI products’ long-term growth
• You will partner closely with leadership across all functions while being focused on the Growth, Marketing, and monetization team work - Product, Engineering, Design, and Research
• You will leverage data-driven insights to proactively identify most impactful opportunities, and inform future experimentation design and product roadmaps
• You will perform analytical deep-dives to analyze Growth/GTM/Monetization related user problems and opportunities, identify the hypothesis and design & execute experiments with great rigor and efficient data techniques

• Masters’ or above in quantitative discipline: Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• 6+ years experience of leveraging data-driven analysis to influence key business decisions and executives, in Growth, GTM and Monetization fields, preferably in a tech company
• Be proficient with SQL, Python and other coding languages frequently applied in the growth production environment, with deep understanding of statistical analysis & experiment design
• 4+ years serving as a technical leader and having hands-on experiences to work with data scientists, engineers, product managers, user researchers, and designers in Growth, GTM and Monetization fields
• Ability to influence prioritization and execution of high impact projects effecting customer experience, monetization, and marketing’s roadmap
• Proven track record of being able to work independently and proactively engage with business stakeholders with minimal direction & driver measurable business impact
• Ability to analyze large datasets, to identify the key success metrics that product teams can take actions upon, with a track record of driving directly measurable product or business impact.

For candidates hired in San Francisco metro, New York City metro, or Seattle metro, the expected salary/On-Target Earnings (OTE) range for the role is currently $180,200 - $212,000 - $243,800.

For candidates hired in the following locations: Austin (TX) metro, Chicago metro, California (outside SF metro), Colorado, Connecticut (outside NYC metro), Delaware, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York (outside NYC metro), Oregon, Pennsylvania (outside NYC or DC metro), Washington (outside Seattle metro) and Washington DC metro, the expected salary/On-Target Earnings (OTE) range for the role is currently $162,200 - $190,800 - $219,400.

For candidates hired in all other US locations, the expected salary/On-Target Earnings (OTE) range for this role is currently $144,200 - $169,600 - $195,000.

Range(s) is subject to change. Dropbox takes a number of factors into account when determining individual starting pay, including job and level they are hired into, location/metropolitan area, skillset, and peer compensation. Dropbox uses the zip code of an employee’s remote work location to determine which metropolitan pay range we use.

Salary/OTE is just one component of Dropbox’s total rewards package. All regular employees are also eligible for the corporate bonus program or a sales incentive (target included in OTE) as well as stock in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).

Dropbox is an equal opportunity employer. We are a welcoming place for everyone, and we do our best to make sure all people feel supported and connected at work. A big part of that effort is our support for members and allies of internal groups like Asians at Dropbox, BlackDropboxers, Latinx, Pridebox (LGBTQ), Vets at Dropbox, Women at Dropbox, ATX Diversity (based in Austin, Texas) and the Dropbox Empowerment Network (based in Dublin, Ireland).