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Vox Media · 3 hours ago

Data Scientist

Vox Media is a leading digital media company, and they are seeking a Data Scientist focused on their Consumer Revenue businesses. The role involves building tools and models to understand subscriber behavior, marketing strategies, and retention metrics while collaborating with various teams to enhance data-driven decision-making.

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Responsibilities

Solve problems like churn risk modeling, LTV calculations, retention impact measurement, paid marketing attribution, etc. and build tools and integrations to make their outputs actionable
Define measurement frameworks and build tools and dashboards to measure impact of initiatives across acquisition, engagement, and retention
Work closely with team leads on the Data and Consumer Revenue teams to understand problems, discuss approaches, and make decisions about approaches and tradeoffs
In partnership with data engineers and analysts, help with ongoing measurement and reporting needs for this business
Occasionally work in partnership with others on audience-facing initiatives like recommendations

Qualification

PythonSQLCloud-based data warehouseData science experienceExperiment designAI utilizationSelf-sufficiencyBusiness problem evaluationData visualizationAnalytical thinkingProblem-solvingCollaborationCommunicationAdaptabilityAttention to detail

Required

Familiarity with Python and SQL, particularly in the context of data science and analytics
Self-sufficiency. You feel comfortable owning a problem end-to-end, identifying the right approach, writing transformation logic to create a dataset, building a model, and a tool to consume its output
Experience working with a cloud-based data warehouse, like BigQuery or Snowflake. We use BigQuery with dbt for transformation and Dagster for orchestration
Demonstrable experience using data science to solve a business problem. This does not need to be cutting-edge ML. We're looking for someone who can evaluate tradeoffs and choose the right solution for the problem, even if that's rule-based logic
Adept at leveraging AI both to accelerate your own work and to automate data science and analytics workflows. Expect to use AI regularly in this role to understand new problem spaces and common approaches, write code and documentation, and build tools
Some experience with experiment design and measurement

Preferred

Experience with data and analytics in the context of a recurring subscription business model
Prior exposure to methodologies like survival analysis for retention measurement, Markov Chains for multi-touch attribution, frameworks for measuring and segmenting engagement levels
Experience with tools in our stack — BigQuery, dbt, Dagster, Hightouch, Looker

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits

Company

Vox Media

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Vox Media is an operator of an online media publishing agency created to influence editorial properties and premium advertising.

H1B Sponsorship

Vox Media has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (6)
2024 (1)
2023 (1)
2022 (6)
2021 (3)
2020 (1)

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$407.63M
Key Investors
Penske Media CorporationNBCUniversalGeneral Atlantic
2023-02-06Corporate Round· $100M
2015-08-12Series F· $200M
2014-12-01Series E· $46.5M

Leadership Team

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Jim Bankoff
Chairman and CEO
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Lauren Rabaino
Chief Operating Officer
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