Senior Data Scientist, Product Analytics

Department: Engineering

Location: San Francisco, CA

Compensation: $175K – $205K

Employment Type: FullTime

About the Role

We’re looking for a Senior Data Scientist, Product Analytics to lead analytics for Handshake’s Recruiting marketplace. You’ll drive measurement and strategy across marketplace health, liquidity, pricing, and product-led growth, partnering closely with Product, Engineering, and Leadership to shape the future of our marketplace.

This is a highly impactful, hands-on role where you’ll own analytics strategy, influence product direction, and work alongside our Relevance (ML) team to ensure our models deliver measurable business impact.

What You’ll Do

• Partner with Product, Engineering, and R&D leadership to define and measure marketplace health, liquidity, pricing, and growth.

• Own analytics strategy, domain metrics, goal setting, and reporting for your product area.

• Lead experimentation, including test design, instrumentation, analysis, and recommendations.

• Partner with our Relevance team to evaluate and benchmark machine learning models.

• Conduct deep analyses across user behavior, funnels, cohorts, and marketplace performance to uncover actionable insights.

• Collaborate with Analytics Engineering to define trusted metrics and scalable data models.

• Build dashboards and reporting that enable fast, data-driven decision making.

• Champion AI-powered workflows and help shape the future of Product Analytics at Handshake.

Desired Capabilities

• 5+ years of experience as a Data Scientist or Product Analyst driving product strategy through data.

• Expert-level SQL skills with experience analyzing large, complex datasets.

• Strong experience with experimentation, A/B testing, and statistical analysis.

• Experience partnering closely with Product Managers, Engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders.

• Python experience for analytics (e.g., Jupyter notebooks, pandas).

• Strong business intuition with the ability to translate data into strategic recommendations.

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence technical and executive audiences.

• High ownership mindset with the ability to independently drive ambiguous projects to completion.

Extra Credit

• Experience working on marketplace, pricing, or growth analytics.

• Experience supporting machine learning model evaluation or benchmarking.

• Experience with BI and visualization tools such as Hex, Mode, or similar platforms.

• Enthusiasm for AI-first ways of working and leveraging AI tools to accelerate analysis and decision making.

Perks

• Handshake delivers benefits that help you feel supported—and thrive at work and in life.

  The below benefits are for full-time US employees.

  🎯 Ownership: Equity in a fast-growing company

  💰 Financial Wellness: 401(k) match, competitive compensation, financial coaching

  🍼 Family Support: Paid parental leave, fertility benefits, parental coaching

  💝 Wellbeing: Medical, dental, and vision, mental health support, wellness stipend

  📚 Growth: Learning stipend, ongoing development

  💻 Remote & Office: Internet, commuting, and free lunch/gym in our SF office

  🏝 Time Off: Flexible PTO, 15 holidays + 2 flex days

  🤝 Connection: Team outings & referral bonuses

  Explore our mission, values, and comprehensive US benefits at joinhandshake.com/careers.