Data Scientist

Department: Data

Location: Mountain View

Compensation: $160K – $225K • Offers Equity

Employment Type: FullTime

About Us

At MAI (pronounced “my”), we're on a mission to democratize advanced advertising technology. We believe that cutting-edge marketing tools, once exclusive to large enterprises with massive budgets, should be accessible to everyone. Our platform uses AI agents to automate and optimize performance marketing, empowering small and mid-sized businesses to scale their ad spend profitably without the need for an agency or endless hours of manual campaign management.

Founded by ad platform veterans from Google and Instacart, we've successfully raised a $25 million Seed funding round led by Kleiner Perkins to accelerate our growth. This capital will be used to expand our product and engineering teams, bringing our vision of intelligent, autonomous marketing to life. Our AI agents have already proven their value, helping clients drive 40% more sales and managing millions in monthly Google Ads spend. Our client waitlist is growing by the day and we couldn’t be more excited about building the future of growth marketing.

Why Join Now

You won't just be a cog in a large machine. You'll be an athlete on a small, focused team with immense impact and the ability to shape the future of our company.

You'll have the unique chance to learn and grow your skillset. We encourage you to lean on your specializations while taking on new projects you've never done before, learning from your peers and becoming more well-rounded in your career.

What You’ll Do

• Become a Marketing Strategist: You'll dive deep into vast marketing datasets to uncover the "why" behind performance. You'll collaborate closely with our Machine Learning and Operations teams to translate your analytical insights into novel strategies that our AI agents will execute autonomously.

• Teach Our AI to Answer Questions: You will be a key architect of our analytics agent's "brain". This involves deep work in context engineering—crafting prompts, designing semantic data layers, building robust data pipelines, and developing evaluation frameworks to ensure our agent provides accurate, insightful answers to our customers' toughest data questions.

• Build the Data Foundation for Intelligence: You'll take ownership of the data that fuels our agents. You will wrangle messy, multi-platform data into a pristine and powerful asset. More importantly, you'll enrich our agents' capabilities by creating critical tools and signals, such as user funnel models, lifetime value (LTV) predictions, and marketing mix forecasts.

• Shape the Future of an AI-Native Product: You will partner directly with our Product and Engineering teams to see your work come to life. Your analysis and models will directly influence the product roadmap, solve real customer problems, and deliver tangible value.

What You'll Bring

• A PhD or Master's degree in a quantitative field (e.g., Statistics, Data Science, Math, Computer Science), OR a Bachelor's degree with 2+ years of relevant industry experience.

• Strong statistical and experimental design skills (A/B testing, regression, causal methods)

• Proficiency in SQL and Python (or R) for data analysis, modeling, and visualization

• Experience with BI tools (Tableau, Looker, Power BI) and modern data stacks (BigQuery, Snowflake, dbt)

• Deep understanding of marketing measurement: funnels, attribution, MMM, incrementality

• Ability to translate complex analyses into clear, actionable marketing insights

• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills

• (Nice-to-have) ML for marketing: propensity/LTV modeling, causal ML, budget optimization

Why You’ll Love Working at MAI

• Unparalleled Learning: You'll be at the forefront working with a world-class team.

• High Impact: As an early member of a lean and powerful team, your work will directly shape our core platform, data insights, our culture, and the success of our customers.

• A Culture of Curiosity: We're a tight-knit team of passionate builders who value transparency, first-principles thinking, and a relentless drive to solve hard problems together.

• True Ownership: We believe in empowering our team. You'll have significant autonomy over your work and a clear path for growth as the company scales.

Compensation and Benefits

We're offering a stake in our success and a commitment to your well-being. Our total compensation package is designed to support you, both professionally and personally:

• Salary: Depending on your years of experience, a base salary range of $160,000 to $225,000.

• Equity: We want you to feel invested in our mission, which is why we offer meaningful equity.

• Health and Wellness: Our medical, dental and vision coverage is designed to take care of you and your family.

• 401(k): We'll help you build for your future with a competitive 401(k) program.

Are you ready to build the future with us? We believe in a holistic approach to hiring. If you're passionate about our mission and have a drive to learn and grow, we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every single requirement. We value potential, curiosity, and hunger. We can't wait to hear from you.