Senior Data Scientist

Adobe

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Location
San Francisco, CA
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Full-time
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39 days ago
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Adobe Inc. is a global software company known for creative and multimedia software products including Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, and its cloud-based Creative Cloud and Document Cloud suites. Industry: Creative & Digital Experience Software

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TL;DR · Senior Data Scientist

JOB TITLE: Senior Data Scientist The Senior Data Scientist joins the Pro Design team to influence key business metrics for professional design tools like Illustrator and InDesign. In this role, you will map user funnels, build metrics, cohorts, and dashboards to track movement across free, trial, and paid tiers. You will develop propensity models for conversion, upgrade, churn, and expansion to power real-time targeting and in-product nudges. Your daily work involves sizing growth bets, setting north-star metrics, and standing up multivariate experiments across onboarding and pricing. You must be proficient in SQL and Python or R for data manipulation and modeling. The role requires experience with A/B testing, segmentation, and predictive modeling within a creative tools or subscription business context using modern data stacks like Databricks and Spark.

What does a Data Scientist earn in California?

Median $214500 from 114 postings across 26 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Map the user funnel and build metrics, cohorts, and dashboards to track movement across free, trial, and paid tiers.
  • Build propensity models for conversion, upgrade, churn, and expansion to power real-time targeting and in-product nudges.
  • Identify and size growth bets and work with Product teams to ship new features.
  • Define north-star, driver, and guardrail metrics in partnership with key stakeholders.
  • Design and execute multivariate experiments across onboarding, paywalls, in-product prompts, and pricing.
  • Translate ambiguous business questions into structured analyses and actionable recommendations.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5+ years of experience in data science, product analytics, or a similar quantitative role.
  • Proficiency in SQL and Python (or R) for data manipulation, analysis, and modeling.
  • Hands-on experience designing and analyzing A/B tests and interpreting statistical significance.
  • Experience building segmentation and predictive models (propensity, churn, LTV) and deploying them to drive product or marketing actions.
  • Experience building funnels, cohorts, and retention analyses.
  • Ability to translate ambiguous business questions into structured analyses and clear recommendations.
  • Fluency with AI-assisted and agentic workflows.
  • Master's or PhD in a field involving quantitative analysis (preferred).
  • Background in consumer product analytics, especially in creative tools, SaaS, or subscription businesses (preferred).
  • Experience modeling customer satisfaction and/or NPS (preferred).
  • Familiarity with modern data stacks, product analytics tools, and experimentation platforms (preferred).

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