We are looking for a talented individual to join the Core Data Science team at LaunchDarkly – a small but mighty team responsible for core methodology within our product line.
Our remit includes:
Ensuring the statistical rigor and validity of our products
Developing new techniques to bring value to our users
Advocating for technically-sophisticated personas in our product development process
Raising the bar for data-driven decision making within our products
Many of the products at LaunchDarkly are inherently statistical – experimentation and release guardian especially. The value of these products is fundamentally tied to their statistical characteristics. Therefore, the work of the Core DS team is critical to ensuring that our users get the most out of these features.
What you’ll do as a member of Core DSBroadly, you’ll work cross-functionally with all areas of the team from engineering, design, and product.
Your core partners are the engineering team. You’ll be expected to do basic research on how features should be designed to satisfy certain statistical guarantees or performance expectations, create reference implementations or advise engineers on implementation details for production features, and occasionally get your hands dirty with production code.
You will also be an extremely valuable resource to our design and product teams. You can expect to be involved in most product decisions to help size and scope projects with a technical bent, and frequently contribute to design discussions when a technical eye is needed.
Finally, you’ll hold the torch for making data accessible and useful for everyone on the team. You’ll help create and tweak team metrics, pull and refine the queries for computing those metrics, and steward the processes and tooling for surfacing those to the team so that we everyone can be more data-driven.
Responsibilities:Ensuring the statistical rigor and validity of our products
Developing new techniques to bring value to our users
Advocating for technically-sophisticated personas in our product development process
Raising the bar for data-driven decision making within our products
Experience: 3+ years in industry
Technical Expertise: Masters or PhD in Statistics or a related field, or 3+ years experience specifically in online experimentation
Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Ability to clearly articulate technical ideas and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Bias for Action: A pragmatic and iterative approach to engineering that emphasizes incremental progress and continuous delivery.
Pay:
Target pay ranges based on Geographic Zones* for Level 2:
- Zone 1: San Francisco/Bay Area or NYC Metropolitan Area, Boston, Seattle - $121,800 - $167,530**
- Zone 2: Irvine, LA, Monterey, Santa Barbara, Santa Rosa, Austin, Portland, Philadelphia, Chicago - $109,700 - $150,810**
- Zone 3: All other US locations - $103,600 - $142,450**
LaunchDarkly operates from a place of high trust and transparency; we are happy to state the pay range for our open roles to best align with your needs. Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location.
*Within the United States, our geographic pay zones are defined by counties surrounding major metropolitan areas.
**Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), health, vision, and dental insurance, and mental health benefits in addition to salary.
Modern software delivery was supposed to be the foundation for a thriving digital business but reality has proven otherwise. Slow, inefficient development cycles, costly outages, and fragmented customer experiences are preventing developers from building their best software. The LaunchDarkly platform helps developers innovate on new features faster while protecting them with a safety valve to instantly rewind when things go wrong. Developers can target product experiences to any customer segment and maximize the business impact of every feature. And by gradually rolling out new application components, they escape nightmare "big-bang" technology migrations.
The LaunchDarkly platform was built to guide engineers to the next frontier of DevOps by:
- Improving the velocity and stability of software releases, without the fear of end customer outages
- Delivering targeted experiences by easily personalizing features to customer cohorts
- Maximizing the business impact of every feature through the ability to experiment and optimize
- Coordinating the release and optimization of software to provide consistent experiences across mobile platforms and device types
- Improving the effectiveness and productivity of engineering teams, by providing insights into engineering cadence and stability
At LaunchDarkly, we believe in the power of teams. We're building a team that is humble, open, collaborative, respectful and kind. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. LD invites any applicant to review our written Affirmative Action Plan. To do so, contact People Ops at [email protected].
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What We Do
LaunchDarkly isn’t just a leader in feature management — it’s the first scalable feature management platform. Feature management allows development teams to innovate faster by fundamentally transforming how software is delivered to customers. With the ability to gradually release new software features to any segment of users on any platform, DevOps teams can standardize safe releases at scale, accelerate their journey to the cloud and collaborate more effectively with business teams.
Today, LaunchDarkly deploys peaks of 20 trillion feature flags a day, and that number continues to grow. Founded in 2014 in Oakland, California by Edith Harbaugh and John Kodumal, LaunchDarkly has been named on the Forbes Cloud 100 list, InfoWorld’s 2021 Technology of the Year list, and the Enterprise Tech 30 list.
At LaunchDarkly, we believe in the power of teams. We're building a team that is humble, open, collaborative, respectful and kind. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Why Work With Us
We're Oakland-based but Remote-first and have one of the few women CEOs in our industry.
Top reasons to work at LaunchDarkly:
Great work/life balance and unlimited PTO, Awesome culture and human-centric values, Product is a "Need to have": Category leader in Feature Management, Competitive Pay and Healthcare Benefits, Pre-IPO Stock
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