Sr. Data Scientist

What we’re looking for   

The Senior Data Scientist will be pivotal in leveraging data-driven insights to enhance user experiences, improve data interpretability, streamline customer financial processes, and drive product growth. 

Your impact  

• Partner with Prod Dev teams to identify systemic constraints, missing data, or status inefficiencies that preclude AppFolio from being our customers’ Accounting System of Record.
• Identify and advocate for product changes that improve the interpretability of accounting data to define a metric framework for Net Operating Income, amongst other key metrics.
• Lead/own Product Analytics efforts in the Accounting Domain to drive strategic product decisions, optimize performance, and deliver outcomes surrounding key metrics (adoption, payables adoption, usability) through deep-dive analysis, experimentation, and automation.
• Partner with the multiple product development teams to align on and execute against Accounting Reporting and other data enablement priorities. 
• Serves as a key analytics advisor for cross-functional groups such as Engineering, Product, Marketing, and Sales. Acting as a consultant/first mover for accounting-related projects. 

 

 

Must-Have 

• Strong mathematics, statistics, analytical and problem-solving skills
• 5+ years of work experience in a Data team, including statistical software (e.g., R, Python) and relational database languages (e.g., SQL - Snowflake preferred).
• Experience building data models in DBT.
• 2+ Product Analytics and user behavioral data expertise.
• Data Visualization: Streamlit, Tableau, (Looker, PowerBI)

 

 

Nice to have 

• Data modeling experience using DBT.
• Experience building data products, data pipelines, tooling or automation
• Experience in one or any of the following:
• Customer Workflow Products (customer input data)
• Accounting software products 
• B2B SaaS Products

 

 

Compensation & Benefits 

 

The base salary that we reasonably expect to pay for this role is: $128,000-$192,000
The actual base salary for this role will be determined by a variety of factors, including but not limited to: the candidate’s skills, education, experience, etc.  

 

Please note that base pay is one important aspect of a compelling Total Rewards package. The base pay range indicated here does not include any additional benefits or bonuses/commissions that you may be eligible for based on your role and/or employment type.  

Regular full-time employees are eligible for benefits including but not limited to:  

• Paid Time Off (PTO) 
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits 
• Long-term and short-term disability insurance
• 401(k)
• Wellness benefits