Data Scientist, Business Analytics

About the Business Analytics Team

The Business Analytics team’s mission is to unlock strategic opportunities and empower Thumbtack to reach its full business potential. We focus on driving business performance through thoughtful metrics, dashboards, and forums that help measure progress and deepen our understanding of the business. By uncovering transformative insights, we help shape company strategy and guide team execution. We also use data and visual storytelling to communicate Thumbtack’s narrative to investors, board members, our team, and the broader world. As a tight-knit group, we’re passionate about making an impact through data science while building a world-class team through hiring, coaching, and continuous learning.

About the Role

As a Data Scientist on the Business Analytics team, you will work with the leadership team on a daily basis to unpack business performance and insights to influence decision making and long-term strategy. You will work across reporting and infra, monthly business performance

What you'll do

• Define, measure, and track the key metrics that measure Thumbtack’s success
• Design and build key company data tables, dashboards, and insights tools that power decisions across the company, and evolve them as our product and business change
• Conduct in-depth analyses to answer key questions that are critical to Thumbtack’s strategy
• Support and improve company revenue forecasting model, and forecasting/planning process
• Partner effectively with teams across the company, including Product, Engineering, Marketing, Operations, Finance, as well as Thumbtack’s leadership team
• Contribute to our team and company data culture through peer collaboration, training, coaching, and more
  

In order to be successful, you must bring

• 2+ years of professional experience
• Advanced command of SQL
• Experience with data visualization tools
• Ability to develop compelling written narratives to explain analyses and make recommendations
• Exemplary analytical problem solving skills and business judgment; ability to ask the right questions, identify missing information and synthesize insights from data
• Effective collaboration with cross-functional partners (product marketing, finance, etc.) to think through product strategy and execution questions

Expected salary ranges

• For candidates living in San Francisco / Bay Area, San Jose, New York City, or Seattle metros, the expected salary range for the role is currently $127,600 - $156,000.
• For candidates living in Austin, TX or Washington DC metros or in California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, or Washington states, the expected salary range for the role is currently $114,800 - $140,400.
• For candidates living in all other US locations, the expected salary range for this role is currently $108,500 - $132,600.

Actual offered salaries will vary and will be based on various factors, such as calibrated job level, qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiency for the role.