Lead Decision Scientist

We are looking for a Lead Decision Scientist to join our Jobseeker Decision Science team at ZipRecruiter. This role is pivotal in accelerating business-focused decision-making for key product and business initiatives.

Requirements

• Drive Business Outcomes & Decision Making: Serve as a trusted partner for Product and Engineering stakeholders, translating complex data into clear, business-focused decisions.
• Become a Subject Matter Expert: Identify opportunities, define metrics, and build analytical frameworks that guide product success.
• Excellent Communication & Strategic Translation: Synthesize and communicate complex analytical findings to executive leadership and senior stakeholders in product and engineering, translating them into clear, actionable business strategies.
• High-Impact Project Leadership: Driving the end-to-end execution on key initiatives, from hypothesis generation and experimental design through to post-launch analysis and recommendation.
• Technical Leadership: Providing guidance and direction to the team's technical roadmap, standards, and best practices for experimentation, causal inference, and AI tooling.
• Mentoring: Upleveling our junior IC talent through dedicated mentorship on technical skills, communication, and business acumen.
• Experimentation Excellence & Speed: Design and analyze large-scale A/B tests, utilizing advanced statistical techniques to ensure validity and rigor in product decision-making, while driving efficiency to deliver rapid, reliable insights.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Exceptional benefits package
• Flexible Vacation & Paid Time Off
• Employer-matched 401(k) plan