Data Scientist, Duolingo

Data Scientist, Duolingo

Company Duolingo
Job title Data Scientist
Job location Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US
Type Full Time

Responsibilities:

  • Derive insights from data to influence product roadmaps and drive business results
  • Embed in teams with product managers and engineers to design, run, and analyze experiments to improve user experiences
  • Apply advanced analytical methods to model user behavior and estimate the impact of potential new features. Partner with product and engineering teams to develop and implement solutions.
  • Build dashboards, reports, and/or forecasts (e.g., Sigma, Tableau, Plotly) to analyze trends, make recommendations, and help preserve our culture of fact-based decision-making as we scale
  • Collaborate with other data scientists to level up our company’s scientific capabilities and data footprint
  • Ensure the quality of our tracking and data collection is high (and improving)

Requirements & Skills:

  • Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (e.g., Data Science, Economics, Business Analytics, Information Systems)
  • 1-2 years of experience in data science, advanced data analytics, business intelligence, or related role
  • Advanced SQL skills to build datasets that enable ad-hoc analyses and efficient visualization
  • Expertise in data visualization tools such as Sigma, Tableau, Hex, or Looker for full-stack data analysis, insight synthesis, and presentation
  • Professional or academic experience with experimentation, A/B testing, and/or causal inference
  • Experience in programming (e.g., Python, R) to extract, transform, clean, and analyze large amounts of data
  • Outstanding problem-solving abilities and the capacity to distill complex data into concise explanations and actionable insights
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills that facilitate collaboration with both technical and non-technical partners
  • Ability to relocate to and work in our New York or Pittsburgh office

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