Lead Data Scientist
Lead Data Scientist
Scribd
Scribd is seeking a Lead Data Scientist to join their Data & Analytics team. The role involves translating product goals into measurable outcomes, designing experiments, and applying AI techniques to enhance user engagement with Scribd's content library. The company values flexibility, collaboration, and a GRIT mindset among its employees.
Qualification
- Proven experience as a Data Scientist or similar role
- Strong background in statistical analysis and experimental design
- Experience with AI techniques, particularly LLMs and embeddings
- Ability to translate complex data into actionable insights
- Strong collaboration skills to work with cross-functional teams
- Experience in building measurement architectures and metrics contracts
- Familiarity with recommendation systems and user engagement metrics
- Excellent problem-solving skills and a results-oriented mindset
Responsibility
- Own measurable outcomes across recommendation surfaces
- Translate product goals into metrics and lead roadmap bets
- Design and run experiments to diagnose performance variants
- Build prototype models in collaboration with Engineering
- Map goals to metrics with clear success criteria
- Focus on opportunity sizing and measurement
- Apply AI techniques to improve content retrieval and ranking
- Create leading indicators to predict long-term outcomes
