Staff Data Scientist - Product

7–10 years of experience in Data Science at a product-focused software company.

Strong SQL skills and comfort with Python

Proven ability to apply statistical methods, causal inference, AI tools, and experimental design to real business problems.

Demonstrated experience leading large, technically complex projects with clear business impact.

Our customers come from all walks of life and so do we.

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As a Staff Data Scientist, you will play a crucial role in leveraging experimentation, statistical inference, and causal analysis to drive strategic decision making that contributes to the overall success of our organization.

Own ambiguous problems, design analysis frameworks, and introduce structure that scales across multiple product domains.

Strategic Partnership:

Collaborate with product managers, engineering leads, designers, and operations teams to proactively identify opportunities, align on strategy, and guide data-informed decision-making.

Apply advanced statistical methods, causal inference, experimentation, and AI-assisted analytics to surface drivers of product performance, separating signal from noise.

Experimentation & Measurement:

In this role you will work closely with our Product, Engineering, Design, Finance, and other Data teams to become an expert in the data for your domain, define and track metrics that help us understand our business performance, and dive deep into our Payroll, Benefits, and HR data to deliver insights and answer questions. You’ll also integrate AI-assisted practices to accelerate analysis, enhance rigor, and expand the reach of insights across Gusto. We have multiple senior roles open, each focused on a different area of our business.