Perplexity · 11 hours ago
Data Scientist - Product
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$205K/yr - $330K/yr
6+ years expPerplexity is a fast-growing startup looking for a data scientist to join their core consumer product team. The role involves developing data-driven insights, validating hypotheses through A/B testing, and collaborating with various functions to enhance product adoption and data accessibility.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)ChatbotMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSearch Engine
Responsibilities
Develop data-driven insights from user behavior to inform our product roadmap and accelerate adoption
Come up with hypotheses and validate them by designing, running, and analyzing A/B tests
Figure out the right metrics and visualizations to track and implement them in dashboards, from features to company-wide
Work closely with other functions, such as engineering, product, growth, design, and user research
Build tables to make analysis more efficient and make data more accessible
Qualification
Required
6-8+ years of experience working as a data scientist or related role
Have worked at a fast-growing company working on consumer and/or growth
SQL expert
Extensive A/B testing experience
Extensive experience building dashboards using BI tools (ex: Omni, Mode, Hex, Looker or similar tools)
Self-starter and take ownership of your work end-to-end
Comfortable with open-ended problems
Some experience with data modeling
Preferred
Experience with dbt
Comfortable with Python
Experience with Snowflake (especially as an admin)
Experience as one of the first data scientists at an early/growth stage company
Data engineering and/or analytics engineering experience
ML experience
Company
Perplexity
Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine designed to provide accurate, real-time responses to user queries.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$1.68BKey Investors
Cristiano RonaldoNuVenturesAccel
2025-12-05Undisclosed
2025-09-10Series Unknown· $400M
2025-08-15Secondary Market
Leadership Team
Aravind Srinivas
Cofounder, President, CEO
Denis Yarats
Co-Founder & CTO
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