Data Scientist - Quora

Quora is a privately held, remote-first company. This position can be performed remotely from multiple countries around the world.

About Quora

Quora’s mission is to grow the world's collective intelligence. To do so, we have two platforms:

• Quora: A global knowledge sharing platform with millions of monthly unique visitors, bringing people together to share insights on various topics.
• Poe: A platform providing millions of global users with one place to chat, explore, and build with a wide variety of AI language models (bots).

This role will be working on our Quora product.

About the Team and Role

The Data Team helps navigate complexity and influences product and company strategy directly. Quora's 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.

As a member of our team, you'll work closely with product managers, product designers, engineers, and 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.

Data scientists at Quora work across multiple domains, including user growth, content quality, monetization, personalization, marketplace dynamics, and long-term company strategy.

Responsibilities

• Own well-scoped, impactful problem spaces across product and business domains — from framing the question, to conducting the analysis, to working with cross-functional partners to implement solutions
• 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
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to inform product decisions with data
• Contribute to tools, methodologies, and frameworks that help make the data team and the company smarter about data

Minimum Requirements

• Availability for meetings and impromptu communication during Quora's coordination hours (Mon-Fri: 9am-3pm Pacific Time)
• 2+ years of work experience in an analytical or quantitative role, including 1+ years as a Data Scientist or similar title
• Demonstrated ability to independently drive data analyses that inform product or business decisions
• Proficiency with statistical techniques (e.g., regression, hypothesis testing, causal inference) and their practical application
• Effective communication skills, including the ability to translate business needs into analytical questions and explain technical results to cross-functional partners
• Experience using a procedural programming language (e.g., Python, R) for data manipulation, modeling, and analysis; comfort working in a production codebase
• Strong judgment that blends quantitative rigor with product intuition and common sense

Preferred Requirements

• Experience evaluating experiments or recommender systems in offline analysis and online experiments
• Experience with large data sets and distributed computing tools (e.g., Presto/Trino)
• Active Quora user with curiosity about the product

Compensation & Benefits

• US Salary Range: $122,000 - $173,117 USD + equity + benefits
• Canada Salary Range: $146,206 - $177,828 CAD + equity + benefits (varies by location)
• Benefits: Medical, dental, and vision coverage, equity refreshers, remote work reimbursement, paid time off, employee assistance programs, and country-specific benefits.