[Remote] Staff Decision Scientist (Strategic Insights)
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Life360 is a company focused on keeping families connected through innovative technology. They are seeking a Staff Decision Scientist to partner with various teams, shaping product and business strategies through data-driven insights and ensuring the organization remains AI-native.
Responsibilities
- Own the analytical narrative for your Operating Group (OG). Be the strategic thought partner across cross-functional teams (PMs, engineers, marketing, finance). You understand the roadmaps and users, and you set the agenda for the highest-leverage questions the OG should be asking
- Tell stories that move teams to act. You'll present to leadership and working teams with clear narratives and a point of view. A great insight that nobody acts on is a failed insight
- Establish causality with the right tools for the situation, including A/B testing, analytics, and causal inference. You work with engineering to implement event instrumentation and with Product to translate insights into action
- Define metrics strategies that measure what matters. Work backward from how users experience the product to develop and implement the measurement frameworks for your OG, in a complex ecosystem with multi-user engagement and many ways to interact with the product
- Build explanations on top of measurement, always grounding analysis in the reality that users are people with motivations and context the data alone won't tell you
- Shape the AI-native analytics stack. Lead evaluation and adoption of new tools, agent workflows, and practices that enable self-serve across the OG and move the team from reactive to proactive to autonomous
- Mentor senior ICs on causal thinking, experimental rigor, and AI-leveraged workflows. Raise the ceiling of the craft
Skills
- 8+ years in an analytics, data science, or decision science role at a consumer tech company
- Advanced degree in a quantitative field (economics, statistics, quantitative social science, operations research) or equivalent practical experience
- Demonstrated experience with causal inference methods in applied settings (e.g., difference-in-differences, instrumental variables, regression discontinuity, synthetic controls, propensity score matching)
- Track record of influencing product or business strategy through data, with specific examples of cross-functional impact
- Experience with experimentation platforms (Statsig, Optimizely, or similar)
- Proficiency in SQL and Python/R for statistical analysis
- Problem-solving mindset: You structure ambiguous problems precisely before reaching for a tool, AI or otherwise
- Ownership mentality: You take responsibility from framing the question through delivering the recommendation and tracking its impact. You're accountable for decisions changed, not analyses delivered
- AI-native working style: You use AI tooling (Claude Code or equivalent) as a genuine development partner: delegating discrete tasks, reviewing outputs critically, and running parallel workstreams
- Curiosity and initiative: You don't wait for the roadmap to tell you what to analyze. You dig into data because you're genuinely curious about how things work
- Influence at scale: You've shaped strategy at the business unit level by framing the right question and making the evidence impossible to ignore
- Experience with subscription or freemium business models
- Familiarity with international / multi-market analytics
- Experience building dbt models or contributing to analytics engineering workflows
- Background in growth, retention, or lifecycle analytics
- Experience with LTV modeling, incrementality testing, or marketing mix modeling
Benefits
- Competitive pay and benefits.
- Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance plans (100% paid for US employees). We offer supplemental plans for medical and dental for Canadian employees.
- 401(k) plan with company matching program in the US and RRSP with DPSP plan for Canadian employees.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental wellness.
- Flexible PTO and 12 company wide days off throughout the year.
- Winter and Summer Weeklong Synchronized Company Shutdowns
- Learning & Development programs.
- Equipment, tools, and reimbursement support for a productive remote environment.
- Free Life360 Platinum Membership for your preferred circle.
- Free Tile Products
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