Location: Remote, US

Employment Type: Regular

Team: Finance & Analytics

Tinder brings people together. With tens of millions of users and a presence in every country on earth, our reach is expansive and rapidly growing.

The Data Science/Analytics team provides Tinder with quantification and understanding of intent, behavior, value, and the potentially complicated ways in which they all interrelate. Our team offers a unique opportunity to impact product and engineering within Tinder and across the entire Match Group through the Tinder Service Platform team, which builds tools for use across the Match Group brands.

As a Senior Data Scientist on the Foundations team, you will leverage data and automation to help Tinder solve impactful product and engineering problems such as app performance, user happiness, and developer efficiency. Additionally, you will be an authority on the Analytics team, mentoring more junior data scientists, defining Analytics-led projects, and pushing the team to improve their knowledge, toolset, and processes.

An influential Senior Data Scientist at Tinder has a passion and curiosity about turning sophisticated problems into concrete hypotheses that can be answered through meticulous data analysis and A/B testing.

This position can also be located in Los Angeles, Palo Alto, or San Francisco, CA.

You will:

• Be an authority with a point of view for the organization and the team, using data to constantly challenge and reshape our understanding of customer behavior and business performance.
• Be a strategic partner for Foundations by identifying high-impact analytical problems and finding innovative ways to address these problems via data analysis, experimentation, and statistical modeling.
• Derive and communicate data-driven recommendations regarding both the prioritization of potential product/engineering initiatives and the performance of current initiatives.
• Evolve our measurement strategy by identifying novel metrics and measurement approaches to guide product strategy, goals, and experiments.
• Conceptualize, develop and maintain dashboards for risk detection and monitoring.
• Help set the team direction by driving cross-functional alignment on projects and priorities.
• Design and analyze experiments to rigorously test specific hypotheses
• Be a mentor/advisor for other Data Scientists on the Analytics team.

You have:

• 4+ years of professional working experience in Data Science and/or analytics.
• Background in the mobile consumer tech industry.
• Extensive experience with SQL and data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau or Mode).
• Proficiency in a scripting language (e.g., Python or R).
• An understanding of A/B testing and sophisticated statistical techniques.
• The potential to develop a multifaceted business understanding, testable hypotheses, and relevant findings from data
• Eagerness to identify and explore new product/marketing opportunities, potential improvements to our data infrastructure, and unanswered questions about customer behavior.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, and a willingness to collaborate with business partners.
• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field (e.g., Economics, Computer Science, Statistics), Master’s degree, or Ph.D. preferred.

At Tinder, we don’t just accept differences — we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our product, and our community. We strive to make our workplace an inclusive and diverse environment, giving people from all walks of life the opportunity to have a voice. We champion and encourage those who bring different perspectives, ideas, and creativity to join our team dedicated to bringing people together across the globe. Tinder is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace where we welcome all people regardless of sex, gender identity, race, ethnicity, disability, or other lived experience.

As part of our team, you’ll enjoy:

• Working on a product that has an immediate impact on people’s lives all around the world

• Collaborating with a team of creative, fun and driven colleagues

• Comprehensive health coverage, competitive salary, 401(k) employer match, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

• Other perks and wellness benefits like a fitness membership subsidy, paid concierge medical membership, pet insurance offerings, and a commuter subsidy

• A robust Learning + Development offering including our MentorMatch program, access to a library of 6,000+ online learning courses through Udemy, and an annual L+D stipend

• Access to mental health resources

• Fertility preservation benefits

• No Meeting Wednesdays and access to a wide range of product and service discounts through Perkspot

• Charitable donations match up to $15,000 annually

• Monthly and weekly interactive virtual events including Book Club, trivia with prizes and yoga workouts

• The opportunity to join six active Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)

At Tinder, we don’t just accept difference — we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our product, and our community. We strive to make our workplace an inclusive and diverse environment, giving people from all walks of life the opportunity to have a voice. We champion and encourage those who bring different perspectives, ideas, and creativity to join our team dedicated to bringing people together across the globe. Tinder is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace where we welcome all people regardless of sex, gender identity, race, ethnicity, disability, or other lived experience.