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Join Alpaca as a Staff Data Scientist, Growth to drive data-driven growth strategies across the customer journey. Work in a remote environment with a competitive salary and stock options.
Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with our institutional-grade APIs. This includes broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totaling over 10 million brokerage accounts. Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. We're deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community, continuously enhancing our award-winning, developer-friendly API and the robust infrastructure behind it.
- Own the growth funnel end-to-end.
- Analyze acquisition, activation, retention, referral, and monetization across the full user journey; find and size the highest-leverage opportunities to grow the business.
- Run the growth experimentation engine.
- Design and execute A/B tests and causal/incrementality studies on onboarding, activation nudges, funding conversion, pricing, lifecycle/CRM campaigns, and referral loops—building the guardrails, metrics, and self-serve tooling that let teams experiment with rigor and velocity.
- Model growth.
- Build retention/cohort analyses, churn and LTV models, CAC/payback and unit-economics views, and forecasts of core growth metrics; identify the compounding levers and growth loops worth investing in.
- Measure what marketing and partnerships actually drive.
- Use attribution, incrementality testing, and channel/marketing-mix analysis to guide acquisition spend, CAC, and payback.
- Define the growth metrics that matter.
- Define and maintain activation, retention, engagement, and monetization metrics and a clear North Star; partner with analytics engineering to build governed, scalable metrics and dashboards teams rely on daily.
- Embed cross-functionally.
- Partner closely with Product, Marketing, Sales, Engineering, and Finance to shape strategy and turn insight into roadmap, campaigns, and go-to-market decisions.
- Turn data into narrative.
- Create compelling visualizations and narratives to communicate growth insights and recommendations to cross-functional partners and senior leadership.
- Enable self-serve and agentic analytics.
- Help operationalize growth analytics—moving ad-hoc requests into intuitive self-serve environments and contributing to text-to-analytics on top of our semantic layer.
- Mentor and set standards.
- Mentor other data scientists and analysts, contribute to best practices, and help foster a data-informed growth culture across the organization.
- Proven expertise in growth and/or product analytics and data science, with a strong background in statistical analysis and experimentation.
- Hands-on experience with growth/funnel analytics—acquisition, activation, retention/churn, LTV/CAC, cohort analysis, and lifecycle/CRM analytics.
- Experience designing and building experimentation tooling and frameworks for trustworthy A/B tests and causal-inference / incrementality analyses.
- Familiarity with marketing measurement—attribution, incrementality, or marketing-mix modeling—a strong plus.
- Competitive Salary & Stock Options
- Health Benefits
- New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
- Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card
- Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.