Mudflap · 3 months ago
Senior/Staff Data Scientist
Palo Alto, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$185K/yr - $250K/yr
5+ years expMudflap is a fast-growing marketplace business serving the trucking industry, offering innovative payment products to help truckers save on fuel. They are seeking versatile Senior and Staff level Data Scientists to join their analytics and ML team, focusing on building data products, running experiments, and delivering insights that influence growth and product strategy.
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Responsibilities
Drive strategic product decisions through advanced analytics and experimentation
Design and execute A/B tests, build predictive models, and develop data-driven insights that directly impact product roadmaps and business outcomes
Partner closely with product managers, engineers, and leadership to identify opportunities, measure feature success, and optimize user experiences
Identify, model, and mitigate credit and fraud risks across our platform
Build and strengthen our underwriting capabilities for credit risk, and develop predictive models to reduce fraud losses
Partner with Product, engineering and operations teams to implement scalable risk strategies
Drive strategic growth insights through robust data architecture and advanced analytics
Lead the design and implementation of scalable data pipelines, attribution models, and measurement frameworks that power marketing optimization across channels
Own end-to-end data infrastructure including customer journey tracking, incrementality testing platforms, and real-time reporting systems
Drive strategic data science initiatives that directly impact business outcomes, working closely with executive leadership to identify high-value opportunities in your domain
Lead end-to-end machine learning projects from problem formulation through production deployment, including model development, validation, A/B testing, and performance monitoring
Solve high-impact business problems such as fraudulent risk assessment, underwriting, customer segmentation, etc
Drive data-driven decision making across cross-functional partnerships — Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, Ops, Risk teams, etc. to translate complex business requirements into analytical solutions and communicate insights to executive stakeholders
Mentor junior data scientists and analysts and establish best practices — Provide technical leadership, code reviews, and strategic guidance while developing scalable data science methodologies and standards across the organization
Lead experimentation strategy and drive product innovation — Own end-to-end A/B testing frameworks, mentor teams on experimental design, and translate test results into actionable product improvements that directly impact key business metrics
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience in data science, analytics, or related fields
Proficiency in SQL and Python for data manipulation, modeling, and automation
Experience building production-ready models and pipelines
Strong statistical knowledge and experience designing experiments (A/B testing, cohort analysis, causal inference)
Excellent communication skills—ability to present complex insights clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders
Comfortable working in a fast-paced startup environment where collaboration and flexibility are essential
Preferred
Experience in at least one of the domains: risk, growth/marketing, or product analytics preferred
Benefits
Commuter benefits to ease your travel
Lunches and snacks to keep you fueled
Multiple health benefit options
Responsible Time Off
401(k) matching
Opportunities and support for major career growth
Annual Company offsite event (Mudfest!)
Company
Mudflap
Mudflap provides instant fuel discounts to thousands of owner-operators and small fleets at hundreds of independent fuel stops and chains.
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$50M2022-08-17Series B· $50M
2019-01-01Seed
Leadership Team
Sanjay Desai
Co-Founder/CEO
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