Principal Data Scientist

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Analytics & Data Science | Remote, India | Remote, Remote

Are you an analytics champion with a deep toolset who thrives on helping business partners strategize, implement and measure data-driven initiatives? Do you relish the opportunity to dive headfirst into vast, high-impact projects and make foundational contributions across analytics, strategy and operations? Are you energized working closely with the business to turn data into beautiful, high impact visualizations to power leadership decisions? If so, this role is for you!

As a Principal Data Scientist on our Team, you will partner closely with key business leads, focusing on some of the most exciting challenges Atlassian faces.

Working at Atlassian

Atlassians can choose where they work whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity.

• Collaborate on a variety of product and business problems with a diverse set of cross-functional partners and become a trusted strategic partner through the structure and clarity of your work.
• Apply technical expertise with quantitative analysis, experimentation, and the presentation of data to develop strategies for our business and help solve the business's biggest challenges.
• Focus on developing hypotheses through analytical approaches, different methodologies, frameworks, and technical approaches to test them.
• Define, understand, and test opportunities to improve the products and business and influence roadmaps through insights and recommendations.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to inform, influence, and execute strategy decisions
• Identify and measure the success of product efforts through forecasting and monitoring of key product metrics to understand trends.
• You will use data to shape product development, quantify new opportunities, identify upcoming challenges, and ensure the products we build bring value to people, businesses, and Atlassian.
• You will use storytelling techniques to communicate insights broadly, including to company leadership teams.

• 8+ Years of Experience in Data Science or related fields
• Proficiency in SQL AND another data manipulation programming language (e.g Python, R)
• Expertise at telling stories with data and familiarity with at least one visualization tool (e.g. Tableau, R-Shiny, Microstrategy, SAP Business Objects, Looker, etc.)
• Expertise in applying a broad variety of statistical concepts (e.g. regressions, A/B tests, clustering, probability) to business problems and a strong sense of when to adapt/combine approaches to suit the problem at hand
• Experience driving projects or programs which have had proven impact on business strategy and performance through your analytics skills
• A proven track record for crafting analysis into well-written content
• Experience advising, presenting to and serving as a thought partner to senior executives

• 10+ Years of Experience in Data Science or related fields
• An understanding of the SaaS business model and key metrics

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