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Data Science Manager, Safety
Location
United States
Posted
144 days ago
Salary
$248K - $279K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Data Science Manager, Safety
Discord
• Directly manage a 6-person Analytics Data Science team across junior to senior levels, providing right-sized coaching, feedback, and development support. • Participate in Safety Leads group, building strong cross-functional relationships and contributing data-driven perspectives to safety strategy. • Ensure quality of deliverables across the team through direct review or delegation to senior team members, maintaining and improving existing processes. • Up-level the team’s ability to have more strategic impact by improving processes, stakeholder management, and driving ruthless prioritization. • Develop your own strategic point of view of how Safety can be improved at Discord and drive change via thought leadership and/or deliverables from your team.
Job Requirements
- Direct experience on Safety or Integrity teams at consumer tech companies, with background in content moderation, scaled abuse detection (spam/scams), and/or teen safety initiatives.
- 2+ years directly managing teams of 3+ individuals with demonstrated ability to build and maintain high-performing DS teams.
- 5+ years in data science or analytics as an IC with proficiency in SQL and R or Python, plus willingness to contribute technically when needed.
- Expertise in product analytics, experimentation, A/B testing, and product strategy.
- Excellent communication and proven ability to translate complex technical findings into clear insights for stakeholders across all technical levels.
- Experience scaling and automating self-service analytics through tools like Tableau, Looker, or PowerBI.
- Experience or strong perspective in safety or risk domains with ability to apply data science to these business areas.
- Strong management philosophy aligned with building autonomous, accountable teams while driving business impact.
- Collaborative, low‑ego, and user‑obsessed. Bias to action and learning.
- Bonus Points
- Experience collaborating with compliance, legal, or litigation cross-functional teams.
- Experience with mature data platforms and engineering stacks including DBT, Dagster, or Airflow.
- Experience applying causal inference or ML to guide product decisions at scale.
- Passion for Discord, gaming, and/or online communities.
Benefits
- equity
- benefits
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