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Staff Data Scientist, Growth

Data Scientist • Principal • Remote • Full-time • European Union EU/EMEA

Alpaca is looking for a Staff Data Scientist to define and own how growth is measured across the entire customer journey, from acquisition and activation to retention and monetization. As the most senior individual contributor for growth data, you will stand up the experimentation and metrics platform.

Responsibilities

  • ▹Own the growth funnel end-to-end: analyze acquisition, activation, retention, referral and monetization, and size the highest-leverage opportunities
  • ▹Run the growth experimentation engine: A/B tests and causal/incrementality studies on onboarding, activation nudges, funding conversion, pricing, lifecycle/CRM campaigns and referral loops
  • ▹Build the guardrails, metrics and self-serve tooling for experimentation
  • ▹Model growth: retention/cohort analyses, churn and LTV models, CAC/payback and unit-economics views, forecasts
  • ▹Measure what marketing and partnerships actually drive (attribution, incrementality)
  • ▹Work with Product, Marketing, Sales and Engineering
  • ▹Make growth analytics self-serve for the whole company

Requirements

  • ▹Staff-level data science experience on growth data
  • ▹Experience with experimentation and causal inference
  • ▹A mindset that thinks in funnels, loops and cohorts

Soft skills

Setting direction independentlyCross-functional collaboration

What we offer

  • ▹Globally distributed, remote team

About the company

Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global provider of brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto and more, with institutional-grade APIs. It serves hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with over 10 million brokerage accounts. The 400+ person globally distributed team is backed by $400 million in funding.

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