Staff Data Scientist

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Want to help us help others? We’re hiring!

GoFundMe is the world’s most powerful community for good, dedicated to helping people help each other. By uniting individuals and nonprofits in one place, GoFundMe makes it easy and safe for people to ask for help and support causes—for themselves and each other. Together, our community has raised more than $40 billion since 2010.

Join us! GoFundMe is looking for a Staff Data Scientist to strengthen our marketing data science and analytics initiatives and enhance data science operations throughout the company. You will work with a skilled team to make a significant impact for both our users and our business.

Candidates considered for this role will be located in the following location : San Francisco Bay Area, CA

The Job

• Lead end-to-end data science projects : gather requirements, perform feature engineering, model development, validation, and deployment.
• Define and promote technical best practices in tools, systems, and processes (e.g., model versioning, scalable pipelines, experimentation frameworks).
• Drive R&D initiatives : explore novel modeling approaches, assess emerging techniques, and prototype innovative solutions for marketing challenges.
• Build, monitor, and report on key marketing KPIs; develop dashboards and present emerging trends and strategic recommendations to senior leadership.
• Apply advanced analytical techniques : A / B testing, causal inference, uplift modeling, clustering, time-series forecasting to solve high-impact marketing challenges.
• Partner with Product, Growth, Finance, and Engineering teams to identify and prioritize new analytics opportunities that drive user acquisition and revenue.
• Develop forecasting and ROI models to optimize budget allocation and inform roadmap prioritization.
• Collaborate with data engineering to design robust instrumentation, ETL processes, and data-quality monitoring.
• Mentor and coach junior data scientists and analysts; lead code reviews, knowledge-sharing sessions, and onboarding activities.

You

Experience & Education

Technical Skills

Leadership & Collaboration

Preferred

Why you’ll love it here

We live by our core values : impatient to be great , find a way , earn trust every day , fueled by purpose . Be a part of something bigger with us!

GoFundMe is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that actively pursues candidates of diverse backgrounds and experiences. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, ethnicity, nationality or national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, pregnancy status, marital status, age, medical condition, mental or physical disability, or military or veteran status.

The total annual salary for this full-time position is $166,500 - $249,500 + equity + benefits. The he salary range was determined by role, level, and possible location across the US. Individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range based on your location during the hiring process.

If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete a job application or a job interview or to otherwise participate in the hiring process, please contact us at accommodationrequests@gofundme.com.

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Learn More About GoFundMe

We’re proud to partner with GoFundMe.org, an independent public charity, to extend the reach and impact of our generous community, while helping drive critical social change. You can learn more about GoFundMe.org’s activities and impact in their FY ‘24 annual report.

Our annual “Year in Help” report reflects our community’s impact in advancing our mission of helping people help each other.

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Seniority level

Seniority level

Director

Employment type

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Full-time

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Engineering and Information Technology

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Technology, Information and Internet

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