New York City, New York, United States
Principal Data Scientist, Core Products
About Gusto At Gusto, we're on a mission to grow the small business economy. We handle the hard stuff — payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR — so owners can focus on their craft and their customers.
Company
Gusto
Compensation
Not listed
Schedule
Full-Time
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Principal Data Scientist, Core Products at Gusto in New York City. UpJobz keeps this listing high-signal for applicants targeting serious high-tech roles across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. About Gusto At Gusto, we're on a mission to grow the small business economy. We handle the hard stuff — payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR — so owners can focus on their craft and their customers.
Responsibilities
Day-to-day expectations
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- Strategic Leadership: Shape the analytical strategy for a major product or business area. Identify high-leverage opportunities, set long-term measurement and experimentation direction, and align executive stakeholders around data-driven priorities.
- Execution Excellence: Drive and execute on org-level analytical roadmaps that shape company strategy. Achieve alignment and ensure consistent analytical rigor and metric integrity across product domains.
- Scaled Impact: In addition to being an expert in statistical methods and driving impact through execution, you will drive frameworks for experimentation, causal analysis, and metric design that scale across multiple teams and influence org-wide decision quality.
- Thought Partnership: Serve as a trusted advisor to senior product, engineering, and business leaders. Anticipate emerging questions, proactively define success measures, and advocate for data-informed strategy across the org.
- Analytical Innovation: Push the boundaries of statistical modeling, experimentation, and AI-assisted analytics. Design methods and tools that expand how Gusto leverages data to drive customer and business impact.
- Mentorship: Mentor and coach more junior data scientists, raising the bar for analytical thinking and storytelling.
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- Strategic Leadership: Shape the analytical strategy for a major product or business area. Identify high-leverage opportunities, set long-term measurement and experimentation direction, and align executive stakeholders around data-driven priorities.
- Execution Excellence: Drive and execute on org-level analytical roadmaps that shape company strategy. Achieve alignment and ensure consistent analytical rigor and metric integrity across product domains.
- Scaled Impact: In addition to being an expert in statistical methods and driving impact through execution, you will drive frameworks for experimentation, causal analysis, and metric design that scale across multiple teams and influence org-wide decision quality.
- Thought Partnership: Serve as a trusted advisor to senior product, engineering, and business leaders. Anticipate emerging questions, proactively define success measures, and advocate for data-informed strategy across the org.
- Analytical Innovation: Push the boundaries of statistical modeling, experimentation, and AI-assisted analytics. Design methods and tools that expand how Gusto leverages data to drive customer and business impact.
- Mentorship: Mentor and coach more junior data scientists, raising the bar for analytical thinking and storytelling.
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- Strategic Leadership: Shape the analytical strategy for a major product or business area. Identify high-leverage opportunities, set long-term measurement and experimentation direction, and align executive stakeholders around data-driven priorities.
- Execution Excellence: Drive and execute on org-level analytical roadmaps that shape company strategy. Achieve alignment and ensure consistent analytical rigor and metric integrity across product domains.
- Scaled Impact: In addition to being an expert in statistical methods and driving impact through execution, you will drive frameworks for experimentation, causal analysis, and metric design that scale across multiple teams and influence org-wide decision quality.
- Thought Partnership: Serve as a trusted advisor to senior product, engineering, and business leaders. Anticipate emerging questions, proactively define success measures, and advocate for data-informed strategy across the org.
- Analytical Innovation: Push the boundaries of statistical modeling, experimentation, and AI-assisted analytics. Design methods and tools that expand how Gusto leverages data to drive customer and business impact.
- Mentorship: Mentor and coach more junior data scientists, raising the bar for analytical thinking and storytelling.
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