About the Role
The Data Scientist, Product Growth and Experimentation will help drive decision making in support of our Product Led Growth function.
This role sits at the intersection of Data, Product, Growth, and GTM. You will work deeply embedded within the Product and Engineering teams focused on PLG. Your focus will be illuminating the user journey from initial interest to fully adopted and all the steps in between. You will surface friction points in the onboarding process and identify behaviors that are indicative of successful adoption. You will evaluate interventions that help us to bring the value of Temporal to more users.
You will work effectively across both large data, clean data sets and data sets with constraints in duration and sample size to provide well-informed recommendations and conclusions. You will bring deep knowledge and practical experience with statistical methods including matched comparisons, quasi-experimental methods, and uncertainty measurements to help overcome these constraints.
The ideal candidate possesses strong analytical judgment and practical product sense. Ambiguous business questions do not intimidate you. You have a keen sense for when additional data or analysis could materially change a conclusion, and when it wouldn’t. You apply analytical rigor while balancing what is functionally required to advance a project. Your aim is to drive better decisions and faster learning through measurable customer outcomes.
What You’ll DoAct as an embedded Data partner to Product, Design, and Engineering, helping shape strategy, product proposals, and experiments from the earliest stages.
Build analytical frameworks across the full PLG journey from acquisition and activation through engagement, adoption, expansion, monetization, and durability
Use funnel, cohort, journey, and sequence analysis to identify friction and opportunities for improvement.
Identify the behaviors and milestones that predict conversion, production readiness, expansion, churn, and long-term customer success, and translate them into leading indicators for successful or stalled accounts.
Analyze feature discovery and adoption patterns to recommend interventions that increase successful adoption and expansion.
Design and evaluate experiments and product changes, using matched comparisons, pre/post-intervention analysis, causal methods, and other appropriate techniques when conventional A/B testing is not practical.
Clearly distinguish observed results from assumptions, quantify uncertainty, and explain the confidence behind each conclusion.
Help prioritize growth opportunities based on potential impact, confidence, effort, and measurement feasibility.
Build reusable datasets, metrics, dashboards, and analytical tools that reduce ad hoc work and make insights accessible to Product, Marketing, Sales, and leadership.
Partner with Engineering and Data Engineering to improve event instrumentation, data quality, and the analytical models required for reliable product analysis.
Communicate findings through clear visualizations, written narratives, and practical recommendations for technical and non-technical audiences.
During your first several months, you will help the team:
Audit signals currently captured in the onboarding flow and recommend new instrumentation as needed
Establish reporting and repeatable analysis for PLG experiments.
Analyze user behavior after the first successful Activity or Workflow.
Identify signals of production readiness and common points where users stall.
Map feature-adoption paths across important product areas.
A strong foundation in statistics, experimental design, causal reasoning, and quantitative analysis.
Experience using product, behavioral, or event data to improve activation, engagement, retention, conversion, or expansion.
Experience working with small samples, noisy signals, imperfect control groups, or environments where standard A/B testing is not always possible.
Strong judgment in choosing methods that fit the decision, available data, and level of uncertainty.
Proficiency in SQL and Python for analysis, modeling, and automation.
Experience with cohort analysis, funnel analysis, segmentation, predictive modeling, and supervised or unsupervised machine-learning methods.
Ability to prototype quickly in notebooks and convert recurring analyses into reliable data products, models, or workflows.
Experience with modern data platforms and query engines such as Athena, Presto/Trino, BigQuery, or Snowflake.
Familiarity with cloud and object-store technologies such as AWS S3.
Experience building dashboards and reusable analytical assets in a modern business intelligence platform.
Comfort working with evolving definitions, incomplete instrumentation, and trade-offs between analytical precision and decision usefulness.
A results-oriented mindset and a record of translating analysis into product or business action.
Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain methods, uncertainty, and recommendations in plain language.
Curiosity about developer platforms, cloud infrastructure, usage-based products, and how customers adopt technically complex products.
A collaborative approach and the ability to work effectively with Product, Engineering, Marketing, Sales, Finance, and Data partners.
Temporal Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Temporal Technologies does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. We embrace and celebrate differences and diversity.
Temporal is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. If you need to request a reasonable accommodation, please let your Recruiter know so we can assist.
Skills Required
- Strong foundation in statistics, experimental design, causal reasoning, and quantitative analysis
- Experience using product, behavioral, or event data to improve activation, engagement, retention, conversion, or expansion
- Experience working with small samples, noisy signals, imperfect control groups, or situations where standard A/B testing is impractical
- Strong judgment in selecting analytical methods appropriate to the decision, data, and uncertainty
- Proficiency in SQL and Python for analysis, modeling, and automation
- Experience with cohort analysis, funnel analysis, segmentation, predictive modeling, and supervised or unsupervised machine learning
- Ability to prototype analyses in notebooks and convert recurring analyses into reliable data products, models, or workflows
- Experience with modern data platforms or query engines such as Athena, Presto/Trino, BigQuery, or Snowflake
- Familiarity with cloud and object-store technologies such as AWS S3
- Experience building dashboards and reusable analytical assets in a modern business intelligence platform
- Comfort working with evolving definitions, incomplete instrumentation, and trade-offs between analytical precision and decision usefulness
- Record of translating analysis into product or business action
- Strong communication skills, including explaining methods, uncertainty, and recommendations in plain language
- Curiosity about developer platforms, cloud infrastructure, usage-based products, and technically complex product adoption
- Ability to collaborate effectively with Product, Engineering, Marketing, Sales, Finance, and Data teams
Temporal Technologies Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as 100% employer-paid for medical, dental, and vision, with AD&D, short- and long-term disability, and life insurance included. Feedback suggests this breadth and cost coverage is a strong differentiator for a remote-first employer.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off includes unlimited PTO alongside 12 standard holidays and 2 floating holidays. Feedback suggests this structure supports rest and recharge across teams.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing and remote-work support include a home office stipend, internet reimbursement, WFH meals, Calm app access, a lifestyle spending account, and learning/professional membership budgets. Feedback suggests these perks enhance overall total rewards beyond base pay.
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What We Do
Temporal develops and distributes the world's leading open source durable execution system. We make code fault tolerant, durable and simple. Innovative companies like Datadog, Glovo, Indeed, Netflix, Qualtrics, Remitly, Snap and Yum! Brands build their services and applications with Temporal to make them reliable to run, productive to enhance and easy to troubleshoot and repair. More than a decade in the making, Temporal is powered by veterans behind some of the industry's most loved systems technologies, programming frameworks and open source communities as well as investors like Amplify Partners, Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures.









