Staff Data Scientist (Business Analytics) - Remote

Overview

• We re hiring a Staff Data Scientist (Business Analytics) to lead strategic analytics and causal measurement for high-impact growth initiatives.
• In this role, you ll build the frameworks that guide leadership decisions forecasting outcomes, sizing opportunities, measuring ROI, and uncovering true incrementality across the business.
• You ll work closely with senior stakeholders to ensure resources are directed toward the highest-value opportunities.
• This is a senior individual contributor role for someone who combines deep statistical expertise with strong business judgment and the ability to communicate insights clearly.
• Discover the Responsibilities
• Design and maintain forecasting models for revenue, GMV, merchant growth, and other key drivers
• Lead opportunity sizing across new products, pricing strategies, and market expansion efforts
• Develop causal measurement frameworks (e.g., synthetic control, diff-in-diff, geo-experiments) to evaluate true business impact
• Build a scalable measurement playbook covering incrementality, attribution, and counterfactual analysis
• Create segmentation and scoring models to drive prioritisation across sales, marketing, and merchant success
• Define and evolve decision-grade metrics and KPIs with Finance, Product, and Commercial teams
• Translate complex analyses into clear, actionable insights for senior leadership
• Mentor and elevate analytical rigor across the data science team
• Discover the Requirements
• 7+ years of experience in data science, product analytics, or applied statistics within a tech environment.
• Strong experience designing, running, and analysing large-scale A/B experiments (including pitfalls like SRM, peeking, and novelty effects).
• Deep understanding of event tracking and analytics instrumentation best practices.
• Advanced proficiency in SQL and Python (pandas, scipy, statsmodels, etc.).
• Solid grounding in statistics: hypothesis testing, power analysis, causal inference, and experimentation design.
• Experience defining product health, guardrail, and north-star metrics.
• Proven ability to translate data into strategic recommendations.
• Strong communication skills with experience influencing senior stakeholders.
• Discovered the Desired
• Are fluent in Arabic language.
• Based in Saudi Arabia (Jeddah or Makkah preferred).
• Experience in e-commerce, marketplaces, or SaaS environments.
• Familiarity with experimentation tools (Eppo, Statsig, LaunchDarkly, Optimizely).
• Experience with BI tools (Looker, Metabase) and modern data stacks (dbt, ClickHouse, BigQuery).
• Knowledge of Bayesian methods, sequential testing, or bandit algorithms.
• Experience working in the GCC region.