[Remote] Senior Data Scientist I, Core

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Fetch is hiring a Senior Data Scientist I, Core to build and scale trusted company-wide KPI frameworks, reusable analytics, and measurement capabilities. The role owns analytical workstreams from delivery through adoption, connects product and business drivers to company outcomes, and supports planning with validated forecasts, scenarios, and actionable recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Independently own a company wide KPI, modeling, or measurement workstream through delivery and adoption
• Contribute to our core company KPI framework, including its driver tree and sensitivity model
• Contribute analysis to planning and points allocation
• Define certified metrics and resolve conflicting definitions with partners
• Build KPI trees and decompositions that connect product and business drivers to MAU, retention, ARPU, revenue, and margin
• Model KPI drivers and quantify the direction, sensitivity, predictive strength, and time horizon of KPI-to-North-Star relationships
• Distinguish arithmetic identities, predictive associations, and causal effects
• Build scenarios and translate company goals into workstream targets
• Apply established observational causal methods with diagnostics and robustness checks, making identification assumptions explicit
• Build reproducible diagnostics and analytical tools grounded in certified data
• Evaluate the accuracy, adoption, and sustained value of what you build
• Build reproducible, tested analytical workflows in SQL and Python
• Partner with Data Engineering on gold tables, data marts, and semantic layers
• Partner with cross-functionally with teams such as Product and Engineering to drive adoption
• Make actionable recommendations and communicate sensitivity, assumptions, and uncertainty clearly

Skills

• 5+ years of experience in data science, machine learning, or applied analytics, with demonstrated ownership of complex analytical problems in product-driven environments
• Experience working with multiple stakeholders to define KPIs and their hierarchy
• Ability to structure a complex space into a tackle-able project plan
• Track record of establishing trusted metric definitions and driving adoption across Product, Finance, Commercial, and Engineering
• Experience building and validating models that connect user behavior and business drivers to retention, monetization, or company outcomes
• Ability to show sensitivity estimates, leading indicators, time horizons, and out-of-sample predictive performance
• Experience using models in target setting or scenario planning while distinguishing prediction from causal impact
• Experience with ML modeling, including regression, causal inference methodology, and graph models
• Experience modeling multi-metric relationships
• Strong skills in SQL, Python, statistics, causal inference, and forecasting
• Track record of shipping reusable dashboards, diagnostic apps, or analytical frameworks with evidence of accuracy, adoption, and decision impact
• Experience building robust SQL/Python analytical assets and partnering on productionization
• Track record of documenting and sharing reusable methods
• Understanding of experimentation methodology sufficient to identify patterns, concerns, and frameworks that support product data scientists
• Consumer product analytics experience connecting acquisition, activation, engagement, retention, and monetization
• Experience owning KPI frameworks, causal measurement, or business planning
• Experience in centralized or platform data science
• Experience with experimentation platforms
• Experience with governed self-service analytics

Benefits

• Full-time employees receive equity in Fetch.
• Fetch matches 401(k) contributions dollar for dollar, up to 4% of eligible pay.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans for employees and their pets.
• $10,000 per year in education reimbursement.
• Employee-led Employee Resource Groups, with participation in the Inclusion Council alongside executive leadership.
• Flexible PTO, 9 paid holidays, and a year-end week-long break; holidays vary for Canada-based roles.
• 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all employees, plus 6 additional weeks of paid childbirth recovery leave for birthing parents, and a flexible return-to-work schedule.
• Employees welcoming new family members receive a one-time $2,000 incentive to help cover costs such as childcare, clothing, and diapers.
• For US-based roles, the option to work fully remotely from anywhere in the US (applicable for most roles), with the hardware and software needed to work from home; employees may also collaborate from a Fetch office.

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