Staff data scientist, data products

Do you want to empower organizations to build smarter compensation strategies while ensuring fair pay for all employees?

Syndio is the leading pay governance and compensation intelligence platform. We help organizations make better pay decisions at every stage of the compensation lifecycle, from leveling and offers to promotions and merit. Our platform gives HR, compensation, and finance leaders the data and decision support they need to govern pay fairly, compliantly, and with confidence. We partner with many of the world’s most recognized and respected enterprises, helping them implement leading-edge compensation solutions with expert guidance and analyzing pay for over 10 million employees across the world.

Join us in our mission to help companies make smarter pay decisions they can trust!

About the role

We are looking for a Staff Data Scientist, Data Products to serve as a senior analytical and product partner across Syndio's product and data-product portfolio. You will own measurement strategies for our product platform, translate usage and business data into product decisions, and help turn those signals — together with pay-equity, policy, job architecture, market, and workforce data — into customer-facing analytical products.

This is a high-autonomy, high-visibility staff role. You will lead ambiguous, cross-functional work from opportunity discovery through methodology, validation, production, and launch; partner with Product, Data Science, Engineering, Privacy, Legal, Sales, and Customer Success; and set standards for analytical rigor, interpretability, data quality, and responsible data use. The role is an individual contributor position with broad influence.

Why this job is exciting

Product Measurement & Decision Support

• Own measurement strategies for Syndi's core user workflows — including offer endorsement, approval, and acceptance — defining events, metrics, and success criteria that guide product decisions.
• Partner with engineering to design and validate event instrumentation for new features, ensuring tracking is accurate, consistent, and privacy-safe from the start.
• Conduct deep-dive analyses into feature adoption, workflow completion, user engagement, customer outcomes, and operational patterns to surface actionable insights.
• Build and maintain production-grade dashboards and self-serve reporting in Mixpanel, BigQuery, and BI tooling that give product teams and senior leaders visibility into product health.
• Translate complex, ambiguous usage data into clear, prioritized recommendations for technical, product, and executive audiences.

Data Product Development

• Define and lead analytical strategies for new compensation and workforce data products that make Syndio more valuable, differentiated, and difficult to replicate.
• Identify high-value opportunities to combine Syndio's aggregated and anonymized first-party data with compensation market data, job-posting and skills data, and other third-party sources.
• Develop diagnostics that measure compensation governance and execution health, including policy-versus-practice gaps, job-architecture health, governance adoption, strategic alignment, and overpayment risk.
• Lead complex initiatives from early exploration and hypothesis formation through analytical validation, productionization, commercialization, and launch.
• Evaluate whether proposed data products are analytically defensible, interpretable, commercially valuable, privacy-preserving, and responsible to use.
• Contribute to the give-to-get data strategy by identifying which product and customer signals can strengthen Syndio's broader data assets over time.

Cross-functional Leadership & Standards

• Serve as a senior analytical partner in product discovery, sprint planning, roadmap discussions, business reviews, and product planning cycles.
• Partner with Data Science on experiment design, causal analysis, model evaluation, and measurement of model-assisted workflows.
• Work with Customer Success and Sales to connect product usage and data-product insights to customer value, health, and renewal risk.
• Establish and champion standards for event data, analytical quality, documentation, interpretability, privacy, and responsible data use.
• Provide technical and analytical leadership to other practitioners, raise data literacy across the product organization, and build self-serve capability.

About you

• 8+ years of experience in product analytics, data science, analytics engineering, or a closely related role, including substantial experience supporting software products and/or developing analytical products.
• Proficiency with AI-assisted development tools and workflows, using them to accelerate analysis, prototyping, code generation, documentation, and data-product development while validating outputs and exercising sound judgment.
• Familiarity with emerging AI and BI innovation — including natural-language interfaces, automated insights, semantic layers, and agentic workflows — and the ability to evaluate where these capabilities can improve analytical products and customer experiences.
• A track record of setting direction and leading complex, cross-functional initiatives with significant product or business impact.
• Deep proficiency in SQL and strong working proficiency with Python, R, or a comparable analytical language.
• Advanced knowledge of statistical measurement, benchmarking, experimentation, data modeling, segmentation, data quality assessment, and analytical validation.
• Experience designing event schemas, product measurement strategies, funnels, dashboards, and self-serve reporting using tools such as Mixpanel, Amplitude, Looker, Tableau, or equivalent.
• Experience combining large, imperfect datasets into analytically defensible, interpretable, and commercially valuable products or insights.
• Exceptional judgment and comfort operating in ambiguous, evolving problem spaces; able to determine when approximation is appropriate and when precision is required.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders, communicate complex methodologies clearly, and drive alignment across technical and non-technical audiences.

Extra Credit

• Experience instrumenting or evaluating a GenAI-native product, including model-assisted workflows.
• Deep familiarity with compensation, pay equity, workforce planning, labor-market data, job architecture, skills taxonomies, or people analytics.
• Experience with compensation surveys, job-posting data, privacy-preserving analytics, or third-party data licensing and governance.
• Familiarity with GDPR/CCPA and related privacy considerations for user-level event data and aggregated or anonymized customer data.

Why you'll love it here:

• 💰 Competitive Compensation. For this role our salary is targeted at $180,000 -$205,000 per year. Final offer amounts are determined by factors such as experience and expertise. We take a geo neutral approach to compensation within the US, meaning that we pay based on job function and level, not location.
• 🏆 Syndio Equity. So you can share in Syndio’s success.
• 🏝 Flexible Vacation Policy. We encourage our team to recharge when they need to, plus paid sick & safe time, compassion leave, and voting leave.
• Paid parental leave
• 🩺 Medical, Dental, Vision. Syndio pays 90% of employee premiums, and 50% for dependents.
• 🏥 Life Insurance & Disability. Syndio covers the full premium.
• 🏦 401(k). To help you save for your future
• Fully remote model - #LI-Remote

The interview overview

Below you'll find an outline of the interview plan for our Staff Data Science position. Please note that this is what we expect the process to look like; we may ask you for supplemental information or require an additional step before making a final decision.

• 30 min interview with a member of our Talent Team
• 45 minute zoom interview with the Hiring Manager
• Three video interviews with several team members
• Final interviews with executive

At Syndio, we're building a diverse team that values candor, curiosity, and community. If you share these values and are interested in joining us, we'd love to talk with you even if you don't 100% meet the "about you" listed here. We don't expect anyone to have all the answers, as long as you're willing to learn and grow with us.

Syndio is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are building an inclusive and collaborative workplace as we grow, and we welcome team members regardless of gender/identity, sexual orientation, race or cultural background, religion, physical disability and age.