Senior Data Scientist

We're looking for a Senior Data Scientist to deepen our understanding of how models and product experiences impact user outcomes. You'll work closely with Data Science, Machine Learning Engineering, and Analytics teammates on the recommendations and search systems that power personalized experiences.

We prioritize learning and teamwork and love giving people the opportunity to champion big challenges and grow into better versions of themselves. A great candidate is excited to grow our use of machine learning, AI, and other sophisticated algorithms to build a better user experience. Finally, they believe in Raya's vision, which is to enrich lives by fostering relationships through quality, in person interactions.

We offer comprehensive medical and dental coverage, $50 a day food delivery budget, equity based employment, a great culture, learning opportunities, unlimited vacation, 12 weeks paid parental leave, and we pay all employees $1,000 a year to go somewhere in the world that they've never been because of our values of human connection, empathy, and curiosity.

In this role, you will :

• Run causal and impact analysis for experiments and product changes, helping the team understand not just what happened, but why
• Design and maintain measurement frameworks for key systems like recommendations, ranking, and personalization
• Partner with ML Engineers to evaluate model performance and offline metrics, and to develop scalable evaluation pipelines
• Work closely with Analytics to ensure high-quality experimentation and metric consistency , supporting clear, reliable insights for product and model improvements
• Dig into user behavior and engagement patterns to generate insights and hypotheses that shape product direction
• Contribute to analytical data workflows - for example, defining custom metrics or refining evaluation tables to improve reproducibility and self-serve capability
• Communicate clearly and proactively with product and engineering partners, bringing clarity to complex systems and metric

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