data
Posted Mar 25Senior Data Scientist, Feed Relevance
at Patreon
New York, United StatesHybrid
Requirements
- experience on Patreon feel personally relevant.
- Our cross-functional pod includes ML Engineers, Product Managers, Backend Engineers, Client Engineers, and Data Scientists working together to improve content discovery, deepen fan engagement, and drive creator monetization.
- ABOUT THE ROLE - You'll own the analytics foundation for Patreon's feed — building and maintaining the trustworthy metrics infrastructure that powers dashboards, experiment analysis, ML training data, and leadership reporting.
- - You'll design and analyze ranking experiments across Home Feed, Membership Feed, Post Page Recs, and Niches, working closely with ML Engineers to evaluate relevance changes and new ranking signals.
- - You'll be a thought partner to Product and ML Engineering, helping the team prioritize ranking experiments and measure what matters — from scroll depth and CTR to Discovery Attributed TPV.
- Experience working on a content feed, ranking system, or recommendation platform — including familiarity with retrieval, scoring, and tradeoffs involved in optimizing for multiple objectives. - Deep expertise in A/B testing on ranking or recommendation changes, with a strong statistical inference foundation. -
- Experience building metrics and reporting infrastructure that teams rely on as a source of truth — dashboards, data quality pipelines, and alerting. - Strong SQL proficiency and
- experience using Python or R for statistical analysis. -
- Experience making tradeoffs between speed and accuracy when analytical direction is unclear. -
- Experience working closely with product, ML engineering, and data engineering partners — including translating between technical findings and business priorities. - Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Economics, Engineering, Mathematics, a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
- The final offer will be based on candidate’s experience, skills, competencies, and geographic location, aligning with the appropriate job level within Patreon’s leveling framework.
Benefits
- And we're leaders in that space, with: - $8 billion+ in revenue generated since Patreon's inception - 60 million+ free new memberships for fans who may not be ready to pay just yet, and - 10 million+ fans paying each month for exclusive access to creators' work and community.
- benefits package including and not limited to salary, equity plans, healthcare, flexible time off, company holidays and recharge days, commuter benefits, lifestyle stipends, learning and development stipends, patronage, parental leave, and 401k plan with matching.
- Patreon operates under a hybrid work model, where employees based in office locations are expected to come into the office two days per week, excluding sick time and paid leave.
- At Patreon, we believe in fair and transparent pay.
- In compliance with New York and California pay transparency laws, we are sharing the expected salary range for this role.
- The posted salary range is dependent on the location and the level.
- For remote employees located outside CA and NY, salary may vary based on location and local market conditions.
- Patreon reserves the right to modify or update compensation and benefits at any time.
Contact
- If you need a reasonable accommodation during the interview process, please let us know via email at accomodations@patreon.
Additional details
- Patreon is a media and community platform where over 300,000 creators give their biggest fans access to exclusive work and experiences.
- We offer creators a variety of ways to engage with their communities and build a lasting business including: paid memberships, free memberships, community chats, live experiences, and selling to fans directly with one-time purchases.
- Ultimately our goal is simple: fund the creative class.
- We're continuing to invest heavily in building the best creator platform with the best team in the creator economy and are looking for a Data Scientist to support our mission.
- This role is based in New York or San Francisco and open to those who are able to be in-office 2 days per week on a hybrid work model.
- ABOUT THE TEAM The Relevance team owns feed ranking and recommendations across Patreon's core surfaces — Home Feed, Membership Feed, Post Page Recommendations, and Niches.
- We're building the systems that decide what content fans see and in what order, with the goal of making every fan's
- We're at an exciting inflection point: our ranking and recommendation systems are being built largely from scratch, which means you'll have outsized influence on the technical direction and measurement frameworks that shape how millions of fans discover creators.
- - You'll conduct exploratory analyses to surface data-backed hypotheses about feed health, content mix, engagement patterns, and discovery conversion — and translate those into actionable ranking improvements.
- - You'll develop feed health and engagement dashboards with drill-downs by surface, user segment, platform (iOS vs.