Staff Data Scientist - Core Analytics

Core Analytics is a cross-functional organization that provides analytics, business insights and data products across the whole of Datadog. In particular, its data-scientists work hand in hand with business teams to build ML driven insights. We tackle projects such as predicting customers propensity to convert and try out our products, or identifying and alerting on growth opportunities from past user behaviour.

The Staff Data Scientist of Core Analytics is a high visibility position with impact across the company. You work with a variety of internal partners (e.g. Go-To-Market Strategy, Sales, Marketing & Product Analytics) to make Datadog’s business strategy more scientific, data-driven and automated. You’ll build a deep understanding of how our products and operations work at the core, and leverage your expertise to identify areas where data science can drive growth. You’ll prototype, measure expected impact and socialize ideas. Your hands-on expertise and leadership will help you mentor and empower fellow data scientists to transform those ideas into actionable insights.

At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You’ll Do:

• Collaborate with business partners to build a deep understanding of the different aspects of our business (Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Product Strategy).
• Identify high impact opportunities applying data science and AI in our business processes, prototype and socialize your ideas to non technical stakeholders. Kick-off cross team initiatives.
• Own projects from beginning to end. Be hands-on as a technical leader, from research and iteration to productionization at scale.
• Lead projects and mentor fellow data scientists as the most senior engineer in the team.
• Build best practices in terms of machine learning lifecycle , underlying tooling and infrastructure. Foster an environment of technical excellence.
• Measure impact through attribution, statistics and A/B tests. Build best practices to effectively measure and communicate impacts.
• Bring feedback and influence the roadmaps of the Data and AI platforms.

Who You Are:

• 10+ years of industry experience in a data science role and a Master’s degree or PhD in relevant fields.
• 4+ years of relevant leadership experience as an engineering manager or technical leader.
• Deep understanding of Machine Learning lifecycle, best practices, algorithms and domains and their applications to business (e.g. clustering, forecasting, personalization, recommendation, NLPs and LLMs usage, drift and explainability).
• You are impact-driven and have an entrepreneurial mindset. You have a strong track record of designing, prototyping, scaling and launching data science products to solve business problems.
• Strong coding skills in general purpose languages like Scala or Python, and expertise with software engineering principles around testing, code reviews and deployment.
• Strong data engineering and design skills. Experience with tools like Snowflake, Spark and Airflow. Experience in building reverse ETLs to push back insights to business systems like Salesforce, Marketo or Ads Platforms.
• Ability to collaborate with business stakeholders, understand their needs, and simplify complex technical concepts for them to solve their problems.

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.

Benefits and Growth: 

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
• Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
• Access to Inclusion Talks, our internal panel discussions
• Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
• Competitive global benefits

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.