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Data Scientist

DropboxDropbox·Cloud Storage and File Sharing

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About the role

Role Description

We're looking for a Data Scientist to partner with product, engineering, and design teams to answer key questions about how to grow revenue, optimize product, scale and monetize the business, and launch high-impact initiatives. We solve challenging problems and boost business growth through a deep understanding of user behaviors with applied analytics techniques and business insights. An ideal candidate should have robust knowledge of consumer lifecycle and behavior analysis, customer segmentation, digital campaigns, monetization analytics and business operations for a SaaS company.

Responsibilities

  • Develop a deep understanding of customer journey phases and key business metrics
  • Perform analytical deep-dives to analyze problems and opportunities, identify the hypothesis and design & execute experiments
  • Inform future experimentation design and roadmaps by performing exploratory analysis to understand user engagement behavior and derive insights
  • Create personalized segmentation strategies leveraging propensity models to enable targeting of offers and experiences based on user attributes
  • Identify key trends and build automated reporting & executive-facing dashboards to track the progress of acquisition, monetization, and engagement trends.
  • Extract actionable insights through analyzing large, complex, multi-dimensional customer behavior data sets
  • Monitor and analyze a high volume of experiments designed to optimize the product for user experience and revenue & promote best practices for multivariate experiments
  • Translate complex concepts into implications for the business via excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
  • Understand what matters most and prioritize ruthlessly
  • Work with cross-functional teams (including Data Science, Marketing, Product, Engineering, Design, User Research, and senior executives) to rapidly execute and iterate

Requirements

  • Bachelors’ or above in quantitative discipline: Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
  • 3-5 years experience using analytics to drive key business decisions; examples include business/product/marketing analytics, business intelligence, strategy consulting
  • Proven track record of being able to work independently and proactively engage with business stakeholders with minimal direction
  • Significant experience with SQL and large unstructured datasets such as Hadoop
  • Deep understanding of statistical analysis, experimentation design, and common analytical techniques like regression, decision trees
  • Solid background in running multivariate experiments to optimize a product or revenue flow
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Proficiency in programming/scripting and knowledge of statistical packages like R or Python is a plus

Preferred Qualifications

  • Product analytics experience in a SAAS company
  • Masters’ or above in a quantitative discipline: Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Compensation

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Aplyr's read

Dropbox revolutionizes digital collaboration with seamless file sharing and storage, attracting tech-savvy professionals focused on innovation and efficiency.

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What's promising

  • Dropbox offers robust remote work solutions, enhancing productivity.
  • The company invests heavily in AI to improve user experience.
  • Dropbox consistently updates its platform to meet evolving user needs.

What to watch

  • Dropbox faces intense competition from Google Drive and OneDrive.
  • The company's growth has slowed compared to its early years.
  • Security concerns remain a challenge in cloud storage.

Why Dropbox

  • Dropbox Paper integrates document creation with storage.
  • Smart Sync feature allows access to files without local storage.
  • Dropbox's focus on design systems enhances user interface consistency.

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About Dropbox

Dropbox is a cloud storage and file synchronization service that allows users to store and share files online. It has transformed the way individuals and businesses collaborate and manage their documents, making remote work and file access seamless and efficient.

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