Data Scientist - Prachub (Early-stage Startup)

Prachubabout 1 year ago
Los Angeles, California, United States
Remote
Full-time
Junior Level (1-3 years)

Job Description

Position Overview

Prachub, an early-stage startup committed to making tech interview prep more transparent and accessible, is seeking a founding Data Scientist to join our core team. This unique role offers you the opportunity to shape our product and culture from day one. Please include a short cover letter sharing your thoughts on how Prachub could be improved.

Key Responsibilities

  • Analyze user data to uncover insights that drive product and growth decisions.
  • Build data pipelines and dashboards to track engagement, retention, and conversion metrics.
  • Design and evaluate A/B tests for new features and growth experiments.
  • Collaborate with engineers and product teams to define data-driven roadmaps.
  • Contribute to creating a data-first culture at Prachub.

Required Qualifications

  • Degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Data Science, or a related field.
  • 1–5 years of experience in data science or analytics.
  • Strong SQL skills and experience with Python or R.
  • Experience designing and analyzing experiments (A/B testing, causal inference).
  • A startup mindset: ownership, adaptability, and a willingness to get hands dirty.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Familiarity with modern data stacks (e.g., dbt, Airflow, BigQuery, Snowflake).
  • Bonus: Experience with LLMs, recommender systems, or NLP.

Benefits & Perks

  • Impact: Be one of the first data hires, shaping product decisions that affect thousands of job seekers.
  • Ownership: Build systems from scratch, not just maintain legacy pipelines.
  • Mission-driven: Help students and professionals land jobs at FAANG and top tech companies.
  • Growth: Play a defining role in scaling Prachub from 0 → 1.

Required Skills

Python
Statistical Modeling
Dashboard Development
Experiment Design
Data Analysis
SQL
Data Pipelines
A/B Testing