Staff Data Scientist

Role Description

Evolve's Data Product team builds data and machine-learning products that improve owner acquisition and retention, pricing, revenue performance, and how teams make decisions. We're hiring a hands-on Staff Data Scientist with applied ML engineering depth to lead the highest-impact work across that portfolio.

You'll turn ambiguous opportunities into durable production systems:

• Frame the problem and success measures.
• Develop and validate models.
• Build the pipelines and inference patterns needed to run them.
• Integrate them into products or workflows.
• Measure adoption and business impact.

You'll also contribute directly to our economic and pricing work, including:

• Forecasting.
• Demand and price-elasticity estimation.
• Causal measurement.
• Optimization.

This is an individual-contributor role for someone who enjoys both modeling and systems work. You'll set technical direction and pragmatic engineering standards for a lean data science team, mentor other contributors, and partner closely with Product, Engineering, Data Engineering, Revenue Management, and business leaders. The exact mix of initiatives will shift with company priorities, but end-to-end ownership and measurable business use will remain constant. This role reports to the head of Data Product.

Qualifications

• Typically 6+ years applying data science, statistics, econometrics, or machine learning to consequential business problems.
• Evidence of Staff-level scope: you have led ambiguous, cross-functional DS or ML work from idea through sustained production use, influenced technical direction beyond one project, and created leverage for other contributors.
• Strong Python and SQL skills, including the ability to write tested, maintainable production code and work effectively with large datasets.
• Experience owning production ML systems, including deployment or scoring, monitoring, failure handling, operational support, and iteration after launch.
• Strong applied-statistics and model-evaluation judgment, including experimentation or causal-inference fundamentals and the ability to contribute to economic or optimization work.
• Ability to connect technical decisions to business outcomes and communicate tradeoffs clearly to technical, product, business, and executive audiences.
• A self-directed, collaborative working style: you can prioritize across a broad problem space, receive and give direct feedback, influence without formal authority, and remain hands-on in a lean, remote team.

Helpful experience

• An advanced degree in a quantitative field, or equivalent depth demonstrated through applied work.
• Demand forecasting, dynamic pricing, revenue management, price-elasticity estimation, econometrics, causal inference, or optimization.
• Snowflake, dbt, cloud orchestration, and practical MLOps or model-governance patterns.
• Marketplace, travel, hospitality, or another domain where models influence high-frequency operating decisions.
• NLP, LLM, voice, or other unstructured-data products.

Compensation

Annual base salary range: $180,000–$195,000, depending on relevant experience. This role is also eligible for equity and a variable annual bonus based on both company and individual performance.

Location

All Evolve team members must live in one of our approved locations by their first day. We can hire from anywhere in the U.S. except D.C. and Hawaii. Some positions may also have restrictions based on compensation in the following states: California, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Washington. If you live in Colorado, you can work remotely anywhere in the state, at our downtown Denver office, or a hybrid of both! If you're planning to move soon, please let us know, and we'll be happy to review your application again.

Benefits

• Industry-competitive pay, equity in the company, and a 401(k) with a 4% immediate vesting match.
• 16-18 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents and 10 weeks for non-birthing parents, plus infertility coverage.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, with 100% employer-paid dental and vision for individual coverage, a low-cost medical option, 10 free mental health visits, and pet insurance.
• Generous PTO, RTO (for full-time exempt employees), sick leave, holidays, and a personal holiday to celebrate what matters most to you.
• Annual Evolve travel credit after one year and discounts on stays at all Evolve properties.
• World-class onboarding programs, learning, and development resources to help you grow your impact.
• Employee Resource Groups celebrating our diverse communities at Evolve.