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Salary: USD 145,000 - 180,000 / annual
Vox Media is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to drive growth in its Subscriptions business. You will own end-to-end data science problems that directly impact business decisions, working on a small, high-agency data team that maintains the data warehouse, operates recommendation models in production, enables marketing personalization, and owns the experimentation platform.
Key responsibilities include: building retention and engagement models to identify at-risk subscribers and measure intervention effectiveness; developing lifetime value models to inform acquisition channel strategy; extending recommendation systems to new surfaces and optimizing the iteration loop; and designing and analyzing experiments that validate which experiences reach production.
The role emphasizes practical impact over cutting-edge complexity—you'll choose right-sized solutions and own problems across their full lifecycle: framing, dataset building, modeling, shipping, and measurement. The team embraces an AI-native working style, using AI daily for coding, analysis, and learning new techniques while maintaining judgment, problem framing, and accountability.
You'll bring a track record of using data science to change business decisions (not just inform them), comfort owning problems end-to-end, fluency in Python and SQL for data science and analytics, and rigor in experiment design. Nice-to-haves include experience with subscription/recurring-revenue businesses (survival analysis, uplift modeling, multi-touch attribution), exposure to production recommender systems, and familiarity with the stack (BigQuery, dbt, Dagster, Google Cloud, Looker).
This is a permanent, full-time, benefits-eligible position based in the NYC office on a hybrid schedule.
