While the ideal location is San Francisco, we are also able to hire remotely.

About the Role

As a leading destination for learning and teaching online, Udemy strives to create new possibilities for people and organizations everywhere by connecting them to the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in a changing world. Udemy is looking for data scientists with a combination of quantitative skills- and business intuition to find actionable insights that drive key business decisions.

As a Data Scientist at Udemy, you will be partnering with business leaders, product managers, marketers, designers, and engineers to identify, scope, and execute data-driven analyses to drive business impact. You will serve as a subject matter expert, especially while working with other data scientists and act as a data evangelist to create a data-driven culture across the company. Success in this role requires a combination of business intuition, practical data analysis experience, experimentation acumen, and strong communication and collaboration skills.

Here Are Some Questions You Could Be Working On:

• How do we incentivize instructors to produce new content types and learning experiences for our subscription product?
• What user attributes and behaviors drive trial activation and renewals?

Here Is What You Will Be Doing:

• Collaborate with stakeholders to inform business decisions
• Serve as a subject matter expert and thought leader in your domain and help drive the data science roadmap
• Effectively communicate and present to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Design and analyze randomized controlled experiments and conduct ad hoc analyses
• Define metrics and build dashboards to track health of your specific domain.
• Develop robust data pipelines and continuously improve the quality and accessibility of data
• Proactively influence prioritization through data-driven insights
• Develop end-to-end modeling solutions
• Build Udemy’s technical brand through talks, blog posts, and publications

We Are Excited About You Because You Have:

• At least 2 years of industry experience 
• Ability to communicate effectively with non-technical stakeholders
• Strong business intu
• ition and judgment
• Exceptional data storytelling and data visualization ability
• Broad knowledge of applied statistics, experimental design, and causal inference
• Expert SQL ability and proficiency with 1+ programming languages (e.g., R or Python)
• Familiarity with data pipeline building (e.g. in Hive, Spark) and workflow tools (e.g. Airflow)
• Ability to work autonomously, relentlessly prioritize, and collaborate with team members across time zones

We Are More Excited About You Because You Have:

• 5+ years of relevant industry experience
• Experience with machine learning and causal inference
• Familiarity with standard software engineering practices (e.g., Scrum)
• Experience with business intelligence tools (e.g. Looker, Chartio, or Tableau)

Minimum Salary: $115,000

About Udemy

Udemy is the world’s largest education platform with more than 30 million monthly visitors.  Through our Consumer and Enterprise businesses, Udemy creates new possibilities for people and organizations everywhere by connecting them to the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in a changing world. The Udemy consumer marketplace offers thousands of up-to-date courses in dozens of languages and provides the tools learners and instructors need to achieve their goals and reach their full potential. For companies, Udemy Business (UB) offers an employee training and development platform with subscription access to thousands of courses, learning analytics, as well as the ability to host and distribute their own content. Our enterprise platform is among the fastest growing SaaS businesses in the world.  UB has more than 10,000 customers and serves the majority of the Fortune 100.

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Udemy is headquartered in San Francisco with hubs in Ankara, Turkey; Austin, Texas; Boston, Massachusetts; Mountain View, California; Denver, Colorado; Dublin, Ireland; Melbourne, Australia; New Delhi, India; and Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Information regarding data privacy is available within the Udemy Careers Privacy Notice.

Udemy Benefits:

• Eligibility: Regular, full-time employees are eligible for Udemy’s benefit programs.
• Health Plans: Medical, dental, and vision coverage (100% coverage for employee-only).
• HSA/FSA/Commuter: Pre-tax savings/spending plans available; generous HSA employer contributions for those enrolled in the HDHP medical plan.
• Life/Disability: Employer-paid life insurance (supplemental available), in addition to short-term and long-term disability.
• Retirement: Access to 401(k) with annual employer contribution.
• Wellbeing: Corporate memberships for meditation and mindfulness, therapy and coaching, financial planning, primary care, tele-health, health advocacy, parent/newborn support, and employee discounts.
• Education: Free access to the entire course library on the Udemy and Udemy for Business platforms; annual stipend for external learning beginning at six months of employment.
• Charitable Matching Program: Employer match of monetary contributions to eligible nonprofits and charities that carry a 501(c)(3) tax status.
• Vacation: 15 days per year of Paid Time Off for hourly; flexible Discretionary Time Off for salaried.
• Parental Leave: 8 weeks of leave at 100% pay for parents who take time off from work following the date of birth, adoption, or foster placement beginning at six months of employment; this amount is in addition to pregnancy-disability benefits at 100% pay, if applicable.
• Holidays: 10 paid holidays throughout the year

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