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Fetch helps people live rewarded, with a vision to create the rewards destination for everyone.
The Role
Lead data science strategy for Fetch’s Play and Rewarded Apps business. The role develops predictive and machine learning models, designs experiments and causal analyses, builds scalable analytical workflows, and connects user behavior to revenue, engagement, retention, and marketplace outcomes. This senior individual contributor partners with Product, Marketing, Engineering, and executives, operationalizes analytical solutions, communicates recommendations, mentors data scientists, and establishes best practices for rigorous modeling, experimentation, documentation, and data storytelling.
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What we’re building and why we’re building it.
Fetch helps people live rewarded every day, with a vision to become the rewards destination for everyone. We turn everyday activities into meaningful rewards, whether it’s grocery shopping, grabbing a quick meal, or playing a favorite mobile game. To date, we’ve awarded more than $1 billion in Fetch Points to our users.
Each day, more than 13 million receipts are submitted on Fetch, providing visibility into over $212 billion in gross merchandise value. This creates the largest retail-agnostic, SKU-level view of household spending, powering Fetch as an outcomes-based advertising platform that helps brands acquire and retain lifelong consumers.
The Fetch app is available on the App Store and Google Play, with more than 6 million five-star reviews from a highly engaged and loyal user base.
It’s not just our users who believe in Fetch: with investments from Softbank, ICONIQ, DST, Greycroft, and partnerships ranging from challenger brands to Fortune 500 companies, Fetch is reshaping how brands and consumers connect in the marketplace. When you work at Fetch, you play a vital role in a platform that drives brand loyalty and creates lifelong consumers with the power of Fetch points. User and partner success are at the heart of everything we do, and we extend that same commitment to our employees.
At Fetch, we value curiosity, adaptability, and the confidence to explore new tools, especially AI, to drive smarter, faster work. You don’t need to be an expert, but you should be ready to learn quickly and think critically. We welcome learners who move fast, challenge the status quo, and shape what’s next, with us. Ranked as one of America’s Best Startup Employers by Forbes for two years in a row, Fetch fosters a people-first culture rooted in trust, accountability, and innovation. We encourage our employees to challenge ideas, think bigger, and always bring the fun to Fetch.
About the Role:
Fetch is looking for a Staff Data Scientist to serve as the senior analytical and scientific leader for our Play business and broader Rewarded Apps portfolio. Reporting to the Senior Director of User Analytics & Insights, you’ll partner with General Managers and leaders across Product, Marketing, Engineering, and other functions to shape how data, experimentation, and advanced analytics inform the future of Play.
This is a strategic, hands-on individual contributor role. You’ll set the analytical direction for Play, identify the highest-value questions for the business, and lead complex analyses and modeling initiatives that influence product strategy, monetization, engagement, and long-term growth. While this role has no direct reports, you’ll mentor analysts and data scientists, establish best practices, and raise the bar for analytical rigor across the organization.
What You'll Do at Fetch:
- Set the analytical and scientific strategy for Play, identifying high-impact opportunities across revenue, margin, engagement, retention, user experience, and advertiser performance.
- Serve as a senior thought partner to business, Product, Marketing, and Engineering leaders, proactively defining the questions analytics should answer.
- Translate ambiguous business and product challenges into structured analytical approaches that clearly communicate trade-offs, uncertainty, and expected impact.
- Develop a deep understanding of the Play P&L and connect user behavior and product performance to revenue, margin, and marketplace outcomes.
- Lead advanced analytics and data science initiatives across engagement, retention, monetization, personalization, segmentation, and marketplace dynamics.
- Build predictive and machine learning models that identify behavioral patterns, forecast outcomes, prioritize opportunities, and inform product and business strategy.
- Shape Play’s experimentation and measurement strategy, applying A/B testing, causal inference, quasi-experimental methods, and observational analysis as appropriate.
- Develop scalable analytical assets, feature pipelines, modeling frameworks, and trusted measurement systems using Python and SQL.
- Partner with Product and Engineering to operationalize models, scoring frameworks, and analytical outputs that improve the user experience and business performance.
- Translate complex findings into clear recommendations for senior and executive audiences, framed around customer outcomes, financial impact, strategic risk, and opportunity cost.
- Mentor analysts and data scientists, review high-impact analyses, and establish best practices for modeling, experimentation, documentation, reusable code, and data storytelling.
Minimum Qualifications:
- 8+ years of experience in data science, analytics, quantitative strategy, or a related field, including ownership of complex product or business domains.
- Advanced proficiency in Python and SQL, with experience building reusable analytical and modeling workflows.
- Experience developing, evaluating, and operationalizing machine learning and predictive models, including feature engineering and translating model outputs into business decisions.
- Strong foundation in statistics, experimental design, power analysis, metric selection, segmentation, and causal inference.
- Experience applying causal inference techniques such as difference-in-differences, matching, synthetic controls, or related methodologies.
- Experience developing models related to personalization, propensity, recommendations, forecasting, retention, or lifetime value.
- Demonstrated ability to independently structure and solve ambiguous, high-impact problems while balancing analytical rigor with business urgency.
- A track record of using analytics to drive measurable improvements in areas such as revenue, engagement, retention, product performance, or operational efficiency.
- Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Marketing, and business teams without direct authority.
- Experience mentoring analysts or data scientists and improving the quality of work across a broader team.
- Exceptional communication and data storytelling skills, including the ability to explain sophisticated analytical concepts to non-technical audiences.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in consumer technology, gaming, marketplaces, rewards, loyalty, or another high-frequency digital product.
- Experience with modern analytics engineering tools and practices, including dbt, Git/GitHub, Spark, or similar technologies.
- Experience working with businesses where user engagement, monetization, incentives, and marketplace economics are closely connected.
- Experience combining advanced analytics with both product and commercial strategy.
This is a full-time role that can be held from one of our US offices or remotely in the United States or any Canadian province (excluding Quebec), subject to appropriate work authorization. Canadian employment, if applicable, would be through Fetch’s Canadian Employer of Record.
Benefits for Canada-based employees may differ slightly to comply with applicable law(s) (e.g., paid time off, Holidays, etc.).
Fetch may use technology tools that incorporate artificial intelligence ("AI") capabilities to support certain activities within our recruiting and hiring process:
- Reviewing and organizing applications and resumes to help our recruiting team manage high volumes of submissions, including automated review of fraud signals to identify bad actors;
- Identifying candidates whose stated qualifications and experience appear relevant to an open position;
- Scheduling and coordinating interviews with candidates;
- Generating interview summaries or notes to assist recruiters and hiring managers in their review; and
- Conducting research on open roles and candidate pools to improve the effectiveness of our recruiting practices.
Fetch does not use AI tools to make hiring decisions. All decisions regarding whether to advance a candidate, extend an offer, or decline an application are made by Fetch employees, who are predominantly members of our Talent Acquisition team and relevant Hiring Managers. AI tools serve only to assist the process of recruiting talent and to inform the human review of candidate information. In no way does Fetch allow AI systems to make, finalize, or override any employment decision.
Compensation: At Fetch, we offer competitive compensation packages including base, equity, and benefits to the exceptional folks we hire. Discover our benefits and how our employees live rewarded at https://fetch.com/careers.
At Fetch, we'll give you the tools to feel healthy, happy and secure through:
- Equity: We offer full-time employees equity in Fetch, so that everyone can benefit from Fetch’s growth.
- 401(k): Fetch will match your contributions dollar for dollar, up to 4% of your eligible pay.
- Benefits for humans and pets: We offer comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans for everyone, including your pets.
- Continuing Education: Fetch provides ten thousand per year in education reimbursement.
- Employee Resource Groups: Take part in employee-led groups that are centered around fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace through events, dialogue, and advocacy. The ERGs participate in our Inclusion Council with members of executive leadership.
- Paid Time Off: On top of our flexible PTO, Fetch observes 9 paid holidays, as well as our year-end week-long break. (Holidays will vary for Canada-based roles)
- Robust Leave Policies: 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all employees, plus 6 additional weeks of paid childbirth recovery leave for birthing parents, and a flexible return-to-work schedule.
- Calvin Care Cash: Employees who are welcoming new family members will also receive a one-time $2,000 incentive to assist employees with covering the cost of childcare, clothing, diapers, and much more!
- Flexible Work Environment: Collaborate with your team in one of our stunning offices, or you can work fully remotely from anywhere in the US for US-based roles. We’ll ensure you are equally equipped with the hardware and software you need to get your job done in the comfort of your home. (applicable for most roles)
Fetch is an equal opportunity employer that embraces diversity, inclusion, and respect for all individuals. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, national origin, marital status, veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Our commitment to inclusivity ensures that everyone is treated with dignity and has the opportunity to succeed based on their talent, skills, and potential.
Fetch also provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities or those with sincerely held religious beliefs, as required by law. If you need assistance with the application process or require an accommodation, please contact us at [email protected].
Skills Required
- 8+ years of experience in data science, analytics, quantitative strategy, or a related field, including ownership of complex product or business domains.
- Advanced proficiency in Python and SQL, with experience building reusable analytical and modeling workflows.
- Experience developing, evaluating, and operationalizing machine learning and predictive models, including feature engineering and translating model outputs into business decisions.
- Strong foundation in statistics, experimental design, power analysis, metric selection, segmentation, and causal inference.
- Experience applying causal inference techniques such as difference-in-differences, matching, synthetic controls, or related methodologies.
- Experience developing models related to personalization, propensity, recommendations, forecasting, retention, or lifetime value.
- Ability to independently structure and solve ambiguous, high-impact problems while balancing analytical rigor with business urgency.
- Track record of using analytics to drive measurable improvements in revenue, engagement, retention, product performance, or operational efficiency.
- Ability to influence senior stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Marketing, and business teams without direct authority.
- Experience mentoring analysts or data scientists and improving the quality of work across a broader team.
- Exceptional communication and data storytelling skills, including explaining sophisticated analytical concepts to non-technical audiences.
- Experience in consumer technology, gaming, marketplaces, rewards, loyalty, or another high-frequency digital product.
- Experience with modern analytics engineering tools and practices, including dbt, Git/GitHub, Spark, or similar technologies.
- Experience working with businesses where user engagement, monetization, incentives, and marketplace economics are closely connected.
- Experience combining advanced analytics with product and commercial strategy.
Fetch Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Fetch and has not been reviewed or approved by Fetch.
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Healthcare Strength — Benefits information points to comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and life insurance coverage. Feedback suggests employees value the strong health offerings alongside mental-health support.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Policies include flexible or unlimited PTO, paid holidays and sick days, bereavement (including pet) and natural-disaster leave. Feedback suggests time-off breadth is a standout element of the package.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellness programs, 1:1 coaching, Gympass, team workouts, and nutrition counseling are provided. Office and remote perks such as home-office stipends, snacks, and pet-friendly spaces further enhance lifestyle support.
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The Company
What We Do
Through Fetch Points, the platform transforms everyday actions into rewarding moments, with more than $1 billion in Fetch Points awarded to date. Every day, more than 13 million receipts are submitted on Fetch, creating visibility into $212 billion in gross merchandise value and delivering the largest retail-agnostic, SKU-level view of household spending. This unmatched dataset powers Fetch as an outcomes-based advertising platform that acquires and retains lifelong consumers.
Why Work With Us
At Fetch, we back your ambition. You’ll have the scope, trust, and opportunity to turn bold ideas into meaningful impact for millions of people. Our builder-minded, high-agency, low-ego culture gives you room to shape what comes next and grow in ways that last, all while helping people live rewarded.
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