Senior Data Scientist, Product
- Your alignment with the mission to increase economic freedom gives you a strong sense of purpose in this role.
- You can bring creativity to understanding user experiences and proposing insights that improve the consumer product journey.
- You may struggle with the high-intensity, push-past-limits culture, which can conflict with your need for a supportive and harmonious environment.
- The requirement to present data convincingly to stakeholders may be challenging, as you can be more introspective and less assertive in influencing decisions.
- Your preference for independent work fits the remote aspect, but frequent collaboration and quarterly surges could drain your energy.
Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase.
Data Science is an integral component of Coinbase’s product and decision making process: we work in partnership with Product, Engineering and Design to influence the roadmap and better understand our users. With a deep expertise in experimentation, analytics and advanced modeling, we produce insights which directly move the company’s bottom line.
As a Data Scientist in the consumer org, you'll apply these skills to improve the customer experience across Coinbase's consumer products—spot and advanced trading, yield, Coinbase One (CB1), international expansion, and new launches (including prediction markets and equities trading). You'll define and instrument key metrics, build measurement and causal frameworks, and translate insights into product strategy and shipped improvements.
What you'll be doing:
- Conduct analysis and deep dives on ambiguous problems for our business. Your work will result in insights and recommendations that guide the team’s decision making.
- Act as owner for a broad scope of data and metrics, from core logging to presentation of data visualizations.
- Guide code reviews, provide SQL and Python expertise, and create well-maintained ETL jobs.
- Maintain a high bar for statistical rigor on your team. Ensure that we’re conducting experimentation and causal analyses that build confidence with your stakeholders.
What we look for in you:
- A BA/BS in a quantitative field (ex Math, Stats, Physics, or Computer Science) with ≥5+ years of relevant experience or a PhD in a quantitative field with with ≥3+ years of relevant experience
- Demonstrated experience in driving impactful data science projects that tackle ambiguous problem spaces.
- Ability to influence external stakeholders by synthesizing data learnings into compelling stories.
- Practical expertise in applying complex modeling frameworks to practical business problems.
- Professional experience using SQL and Python.
- Experience working with digital products in an iterative development cycle.
- Demonstration of our core cultural values: clear communication, positive energy, continuous learning, and efficient execution.
- Demonstrates the ability to responsibly use generative AI tools and copilots (e.g., LibreChat, Gemini, Glean) in daily workflows, continuously learn as tools evolve, and apply human-in-the-loop practices to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in efficiency, cost, and quality.
Pay Transparency Notice: The target annual base salary for this position can range as detailed below. Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility and benefits (including medical, dental, and vision).
- Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
- Equal Opportunity Employer: Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information. Applicants with criminal histories will be considered consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
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Best personality fits for this role
Your strategic mindset excels at diving into ambiguous problems and turning data into actionable product roadmaps, directly matching Coinbase's need for insight-driven decisions.
Read the INTJ career guide →Your natural leadership and drive to influence product strategy fit perfectly with owning metrics and translating insights into shipped improvements.
Read the ENTJ career guide →Your love for complex modeling frameworks and causal analysis makes you a natural fit for the advanced analytics and experimentation this role demands.
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