# Senior Data Scientist, Causal Inference

**Company**: Lyft
**Location**: Seattle, WA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Growth Products team at Lyft drives rider and driver acquisition to scale the business and balance the marketplace. As a Senior Data Scientist expert in causal inference and marketing mix models (MMM), you will lead efforts to measure and optimize investments across marketing channels.

Responsibilities:

- Deliver results across the entire lifecycle of data science solutions for Growth, from defining problems with cross-functional stakeholders to deploying production models.

- Own complex domains and develop long-term roadmaps to maximize business impact.

- Build statistical pipelines, write production code, and design/analyze experiments.

- Participate in the science on-call rotation to ensure automated campaigns operate successfully.

Experience:

- Advanced degree in statistics, economics, mathematics, or equivalent industry experience.

- 4+ years of industry experience in causal inference or data science.

- Proven ability to apply statistics to unstructured problems and deliver measurable results.

- Deep technical expertise in causal inference and tackling challenging measurement problems.

- Expertise in marketing mix modeling is highly preferred.

- Expertise in SQL and experience with large-scale data platforms.

- Proficiency in Python and working within production coding environments.

Benefits:

- Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options with additional programs available.

- Mental health benefits.

- Family building benefits.

- Child care and pet benefits.

- 401(k) plan with company match.

- Discretionary paid time off for salaried team members and 15 days paid time off for hourly team members.

- 18 weeks of paid parental leave.

- Subsidized commuter benefits.

- Monthly Lyft credits and complimentary Lyft Pink membership.

## Skills

### Required
- statistics
- economics
- mathematics
- causal inference
- data science
- SQL
- Python

### Nice to have
- marketing mix modeling

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