Staff Data Scientist, Monetization

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Responsibilities

• ▹Partner with product and engineering teams to drive data-informed monetization across subscriptions, advertising, and virtual currency economies
• ▹Define success metrics for monetization initiatives
• ▹Lead experimentation programs
• ▹Translate complex behavioral and economic data into actionable insights
• ▹Build data science foundations to support rapid product iteration and long-term growth

Requirements

• ▹7+ years of experience as a Data Scientist working on consumer-facing products, ideally in chat, social, UGC, or entertainment platforms
• ▹Strong intuition for identifying the right questions and quickly driving to high-impact insights
• ▹Proven ability to turn analysis into product decisions and shipped outcomes
• ▹Comfortable working in fast-moving, experimental environments with incomplete data
• ▹Experience building or scaling data science practices, including experimentation, metrics, and analytics tooling

Nice to have

• ▹Direct experience supporting monetization systems: subscriptions and pricing, advertising or ad marketplaces, virtual currencies/economies or gamified monetization
• ▹Background in consumer B2C products and/or B2B marketplaces

Soft skills

About the company

Character.AI empowers people to connect, learn, and tell stories through interactive entertainment; over 20 million monthly visitors engage with tens of millions of characters. The company achieved unicorn status within two years and was named Google Play's AI App of the Year.