📈 Data Scientist (Staff)

Alpha is a product studio focused on the intersection of AI and consumer social – backed by a16z and many of the top investors in the world. Our goal is to create social products that we use, that our friends use, and that have the potential to reach billions of people.

Clubhouse was our first app, and we’ve been quietly growing that while building our next set of products. We have years of runway, millions of users, and find ourselves at a very interesting time, where AI is making entirely new things possible with voice.

If you are a talented builder who’s interested in joining us, we’d love to talk.

You'll be the senior technical anchor for our data science function , shaping how we do data science at Alpha, driving cross-functional data strategy, and helping the team do its best work. You’ll set direction for our experimentation practice and bring analytical clarity to the biggest strategic bets we’re making, across all product areas.

You’ll own data strategy across the company. You’ll set direction for our experimentation practice and bring analytical clarity to the biggest strategic bets we’re making, across all product areas. We're a small team (1 data scientist + a part-time data engineer) at a company with millions of users. Your work will be high-leverage and visible.

You’ll provide mentorship and thought partnership to our senior data scientists, and operate with the autonomy that comes with setting direction, not just executing within it.

We are a remote friendly-company — with a strong commitment to ensuring people can do great work here and thrive without having to live near an office. This role is open to candidates across the U.S.

You're technically deep. You have 7+ years of experience as a data scientist. You're highly fluent in SQL and Python — not just for analysis, but for influencing engineering decisions, defining data infrastructure standards, and being a credible technical voice in system design conversations. You're comfortable operating across an end-to-end data pipeline: you can triage pipeline issues, spec data engineering work, and lead a data engineer through complex problems when needed. You've designed and analyzed experiments, know the difference between a well-run test and a noisy one, and have deep expertise in predictive modeling and ML techniques.