Staff Data Scientist - Quora (Remote)

[Quora is a privately held, "remote-first" company quora. com/q/quora/Remote-First-at-Quora. This position can be performed remotely from multiple countries around the world. Please visit careers. quora. com/eligible-countries quora. com/eligible-countries for details regarding employment eligibility by country. ] ABOUT QUORA: Quora’s mission is to grow the world's collective intelligence. To do so, we have two platforms: - Quora com: a global knowledge sharing platform with millions of monthly unique visitors, bringing people together to share insights on various topics and providing a unique platform to learn and connect with others. - Poe com/: a platform providing millions of global users with one place to chat, explore and build with a wide variety of AI language models (bots), including GPT-5. 6-Sol, Claude-Opus-5, Claude-Fable-5, Grok-4.

6, Kimi-K3, and thousands of others. As AI capabilities rapidly advance, Poe provides a single platform to instantly integrate and utilize these new models. Behind these products are passionate, collaborative, and high-performing global teams. We have a culture rooted in transparency, idea-sharing, and experimentation that allows us to celebrate success and grow together through meaningful work. Join us on this journey to create a positive impact and make a significant change in the world. This role will be working on our Quora product. ABOUT THE TEAM AND ROLE: The Data Team is highly empowered at Quora, helping navigate complexity and influencing product and company strategy directly. Quora's outsized commitment to data is visible in everything we do, from our sophisticated experimentation processes to the backgrounds of our leaders. With this emphasis on data and empirics, we aim to balance rigor and pragmatism, searching for scrappy solutions in pursuit of our mission. In joining Quora's strong data team, you'll both benefit from and help advance our culture of rational decision making. As a member of our team, you'll work closely with product managers, product designers, engineers, and other cross-functional partners to devise appropriate measurements and metrics, design randomized controlled experiments, build visualizations, and tackle hard, open-ended problems that uncover usage patterns and opportunities across Quora. Quora has a wide range of rich data, giving you ample room for exploration and creativity. Data scientists at Quora work across multiple domains, including user growth, content quality, monetization, personalization, marketplace dynamics, and long-term company strategy. Example projects include modeling long-term growth, improving the relevance and personalization of the homepage feed, analyzing drivers of user engagement and question-asking behavior, optimizing marketplace efficiency, and evaluating the effectiveness of monetization initiatives. RESPONSIBILITIES: - Own ambiguous, high-impact problem spaces across product and business domains, from question framing, to devising and conducting the analysis, to developing and implementing solutions with cross-functional partners - Partner with cross-functional stakeholders and company leadership to shape product strategy and anticipate future challenges - Design and evaluate experiments to measure the impact of product and strategic changes - Analyze data from across the product to uncover root causes of metric movements - Develop tools, methodologies, and frameworks that help make both the data team and the company as a whole smarter about data - Multiply the impact of other data scientists through mentorship and instilling industry best practices across the team MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: - Availability for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora's “coordination hours