Staff Data Scientist

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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.

We're looking for a Staff Data Scientist to help shape how GoFundMe uses data science to grow our impact across marketing, growth, and product. This role will serve as a senior individual contributor who leads high-impact workstreams across go-to-market and product surfaces, with a primary focus on helping the business make better decisions about audience strategy, acquisition, retention, personalization, experimentation, and investment efficiency.

You will partner closely with leaders across Data, Marketing, Product, Growth, Finance, and Engineering to define technical strategy, build scalable measurement and modeling frameworks, accelerate impact through modern AI-enabled workflows, and translate complex analyses into clear recommendations that improve outcomes for our users, customers, and business.

Candidates considered for this role will be located in the San Francisco Bay Area.

There will be an in-office requirement of 3x a week.

The Job

• Lead high-impact data science initiatives across marketing, growth, and product, from problem definition through methodology, execution, interpretation, and recommendation.
• Define org-level technical strategy, identify high-leverage opportunities, and establish best practices for experimentation, causal measurement, modeling, AI-assisted development, and decision science.
• Design, analyze, and interpret experiments and quasi-experiments; build scalable frameworks to estimate incrementality, treatment effects, and long-term business value.
• Develop ML, uplift, heterogeneous treatment effect,