Staff Data Scientist, Ads
Mozilla
WorldwideremotePosted 1 month ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- Experience Level: 8+ years
- Key Requirement: Python and SQL proficiency
- Key Requirement: Experience with digital advertising/monetization
- Key Benefit: 100% immediate vesting retirement contributions
- Key Benefit: Quarterly all-company wellness days
Role overview
Mozilla Corporation is a non-profit-backed technology company focused on making the internet better for people. The Monetization Data Science team partners with Product, Engineering, Sales, Finance, and senior leadership to grow Mozilla’s advertising business while protecting user privacy. Mozilla is looking for a Staff Data Scientist to serve as a trusted data partner to the Ads organization. This highly visible role involves identifying critical questions, building measurement and analytical approaches, and moving between deep analytical work and executive-level decision-making in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a lead Data Science partner for Mozilla’s Ads business, working across Product, Engineering, Sales, Finance, and senior leadership to identify and prioritize high-impact opportunities
- Own complex analytical problems end-to-end, from framing the business question and determining the right approach to validating results, communicating recommendations, and driving follow-through
- Develop measurement frameworks for new and evolving advertising products, including success metrics, experimentation, instrumentation, and reporting
- Analyze advertising revenue and performance to identify key drivers, evaluate opportunities and trade-offs, and inform product and business decisions
- Translate complex findings, assumptions, and uncertainty into clear recommendations for audiences ranging from technical partners to senior executives
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in data science, analytics, or applied quantitative roles, with demonstrated ownership of complex, business-critical analytical work
- Experience with digital advertising or a related monetization business, with an understanding of how product, user, advertiser, and revenue outcomes interact
- Strong technical foundation in Python and SQL, with experience applying statistical, experimental, forecasting, and analytical methods to real-world business problems
- Demonstrated ability to independently frame ambiguous problems, identify what matters, and drive work from an open-ended question through a clear recommendation
- Excellent analytical judgment—balancing rigor with pragmatism, pressure-testing important results, setting realistic expectations, and communicating uncertainty appropriately
- Proven ability to build trusted relationships and communicate complex or challenging findings to audiences ranging from technical partners to senior executives
- Commitment to our values: Welcoming differences, Being relationship-minded, Practicing responsible participation, Having grit
Benefits
- Generous performance-based bonus plans to all eligible employees - we share in our success as one team
- Rich medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Generous retirement contributions with 100% immediate vesting (regardless of whether you contribute)
- Quarterly all-company wellness days where everyone takes a pause together
- Country specific holidays plus a day off for your birthday
- One-time home office stipend
- Annual professional development budget
- Quarterly well-being stipend
- Considerable paid parental leave
- Employee referral bonus program
- Other benefits (life/AD&D, disability, EAP, etc. - varies by country)
Additional details
- To learn more about our Hiring Range System, please click this link.
- The Mozilla Corporation is wholly owned by the non-profit 501(c) Mozilla Foundation.
- Mozilla exists to build the Internet as a public resource accessible to all because we believe that open and free is better than closed and controlled.
- Mozilla encourages applications from everyone, including members of all equity-seeking communities, such as (but certainly not limited to) women, racialized and Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, persons of all sexual orientations, gender identities, and expressions.
- Qualified individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, as appropriate.
- Mozilla is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race (including hairstyle and texture), religion (including religious grooming and dress practices), gender, gender identity, gender expression, color, national origin, pregnancy, ancestry, domestic partner status, disability, sexual orientation, age, genetic predisposition, medical condition, marital status, citizenship status, military or veteran status, or any other basis covered by applicable laws.
- Group: D
- Req ID: R2884
- Originally posted on Himalayas