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Staff Data Scientist - Quora (Remote)

Requirements:

  • Availability for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora's “coordination hours” (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)
  • 7+ years work experience in an analytical or quantitative role, including 5+ as a Data Scientist or similar title, with a track record of success at a senior or staff level of scope and autonomy
  • Demonstrated ability to tackle difficult data questions that few others could have taken on, such as those requiring deep ownership of a product area and/or leading cross-functional and cross-team efforts
  • Expertise with statistical techniques (e.g. regression, hypothesis testing, causal inference) and their practical application
  • Experience mentoring other data scientists and raising team standards through best practices and process improvements
  • Effective communication skills, including the ability to translate ambiguous business needs into analytical questions and to explain technical results to executives and cross-functional partners
  • Extensive experience using a procedural programming language (e.g. Python, R) for data manipulation, modeling, and analysis; comfort working in a production codebase
  • Strong judgment that blends quantitative rigor with product intuition and common sense

Preferred Requirements:

  • 2+ years of experience evaluating recommender systems in offline analysis and online experiments
  • Experience setting technical direction or strategy for a team or major workstream
  • Experience with large data sets and distributed computing tools (e.g. Presto/Trino)
  • Active Quora user with curiosity about the product

Responsibilities:

  • Own ambiguous, high-impact problem spaces across product and business domains, from question framing, to devising and conducting the analysis, to developing and implementing solutions with cross-functional partners
  • Partner with cross-functional stakeholders and company leadership to shape product strategy and anticipate future challenges
  • Design and evaluate experiments to measure the impact of product and strategic changes
  • Analyze data from across the product to uncover root causes of metric movements
  • Develop tools, methodologies, and frameworks that help make both the data team and the company as a whole smarter about data
  • Multiply the impact of other data scientists through mentorship and instilling industry best practices across the team

Perks and Benefits:

  • Medical/dental/vision coverage
  • Equity refreshers
  • Remote work reimbursement
  • Paid time off
  • Employee assistance programs
  • Competitive salaries
  • Country-specific benefits
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Quora

Germany, Ireland, UK, Estonia, Poland

Remote
Experience: Staff
Posted: June 1, 2026
Last seen: a few seconds ago
Python
dataengineering

Why we track Quora

Quora is remote-friendly and has a smaller engineering team. The product has shifted toward AI with Poe. If you're interested in LLM-powered products and knowledge platforms, they're doing interesting work in that space.

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