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Join us on this journey to create a positive impact and make a significant change in the world.\nThis role will be working on our Quora product.\nAbout the Team and Role:\nThe Data Team is highly empowered at Quora, helping navigate complexity and influencing product and company strategy directly. Quora's outsized commitment to data is visible in everything we do, from our sophisticated experimentation processes to the backgrounds of our leaders. With this emphasis on data and empirics, we aim to balance rigor and pragmatism, searching for scrappy solutions in pursuit of our mission. 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Example projects include modeling long-term growth, improving the relevance and personalization of the homepage feed, analyzing drivers of user engagement and question-asking behavior, optimizing marketplace efficiency, and evaluating the effectiveness of monetization initiatives.\nResponsibilities:\nOwn ambiguous, high-impact problem spaces across product and business domains, from question framing, to devising and conducting the analysis, to developing and implementing solutions with cross-functional partners\n\nPartner with cross-functional stakeholders and company leadership to shape product strategy and anticipate future challenges\n\nDesign and evaluate experiments to measure the impact of product and strategic changes\n\nAnalyze data from across the product to uncover root causes of metric movements\n\nDevelop tools, methodologies, and frameworks that help make both the data team and the company as a whole smarter about data\n\nMultiply the impact of other data scientists through mentorship and instilling industry best practices across the team\n\nMinimum Requirements:\nAvailability for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora's “coordination hours \" (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)\n\n7+ years work experience in an analytical or quantitative role, including 5+ as a Data Scientist or similar title, with a track record of success at a senior or staff level of scope and autonomy\n\nDemonstrated ability to tackle difficult data questions that few others could have taken on, such as those requiring deep ownership of a product area and/or leading cross-functional and cross-team efforts\n\nExpertise with statistical techniques (e.g. regression, hypothesis testing, causal inference) and their practical application\n\nExperience mentoring other data scientists and raising team standards through best practices and process improvements\n\nEffective communication skills, including the ability to translate ambiguous business needs into analytical questions and to explain technical results to executives and cross-functional partners\n\nExtensive experience using a procedural programming language (e.g. Python, R) for data manipulation, modeling, and analysis; comfort working in a production codebase\n\nStrong judgment that blends quantitative rigor with product intuition and common sense\n\nPreferred Requirements:\n2+ years of experience evaluating recommender systems in offline analysis and online experiments\n\nExperience setting technical direction or strategy for a team or major workstream\n\nExperience with large data sets and distributed computing tools (e.g. Presto/Trino)\n\nActive Quora user with curiosity about the product\n\nAt Quora, we value diversity and inclusivity and welcome individuals from all backgrounds, including marginalized or underrepresented groups in tech, to apply for our job openings. 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