Position Details

Salary $150K – $240K USD / year

Type Full-Time

Experience mid

Exp. Years 3 years

Education Not specified

Category Data & Analytics

About this role

Data Scientist II on Zillow's Rentals Data Science – Shopping team solves high-impact problems in rental shopping by partnering with product and engineering to define metrics, run experiments, and derive data-driven insights to guide product decisions.

Key Responsibilities

Partner with product, engineering, design, and ML to define metrics and experiments
Design, run, and analyze A/B tests
Work with large-scale datasets to derive insights
Translate analyses into actionable recommendations
Leverage AI and data tooling to automate workflows

Technical Overview

Strong foundation in statistics and causal inference; experience with event/clickstream data and large-scale datasets; proficiency in Python and SQL; experience with production-scale data environments and modern analytics tooling.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a data scientist with 3+ years in product-focused analytics, strong grounding in statistics and causal inference, and hands-on experience with event/clickstream data. They should be proficient in Python and SQL and able to translate analyses into actionable product decisions.

Must-Have Skills

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a quantitative field or equivalent practical experience3+ years of experience in data scienceideally in a product-focused environmentStrong foundation in statisticsexperimentationand causal inferenceExperience working with event or clickstream data and large-scale datasetsProficient in Python and SQLAbility to scope and structure ambiguous problemsExcellent communication and collaboration

Nice-to-Have Skills

Experience in a product-focused environmentHands-on experience with PostHog or FullStory2+ years building AI/ML systems

Required Skills

PythonSQLPostgreSQLA/B testingcausal inferenceevent dataclickstreamGoogle Analytics

Hard Skills

PythonSQLPostgreSQLA/B testingcausal inferenceevent dataclickstreamGoogle Analytics

Soft Skills

communicationcollaborationindependenceproblem solvingstakeholder management

Industry & Role

Industry SaaS

Job Function Drive data-driven decision making for Zillow Rentals' shopping experience through rigorous experimentation and analytics.

Role Subtype Data Scientist

Keywords for Your Resume

data scientist iizillowremotepythonsqlcausal inferencea/b testingexperimentationevent dataclickstreamgoogle analyticsproduction-scale data environmentsdata toolingstakeholder collaborationcross-functionalproduct strategyanalytical projectsPythonSQLPostgreSQLA/B testingGoogle Analyticsdata analysis

Deal Breakers

Lack of experience with either Python or SQL, No product analytics background, Inability to communicate analyses to cross-functional partners

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