Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Life360 is a company dedicated to keeping people close to their loved ones through innovative mobile applications and tracking devices. The Lead Decision Scientist will partner with product and engineering teams to shape product development and resource allocation through data-driven insights, focusing on establishing causality and implementing metrics strategies that enhance user experience.
Responsibilities
- Be the strategic thought partner for cross-functional teams (PMs, engineers, marketing, finance).You understand the roadmaps and users, and you notice the gap between what the data shows and what the team assumes
- Tell stories that move teams to act. You'll present to leadership and working teams with clear narratives and a point of view. A great insight that nobody acts on is a failed insight
- Establish causality with the right tools for the situation, including A/B testing, analytics, and causal inference. You work with engineering to implement event instrumentation and with Product to translate insights into action
- Work backward from an understanding of how users experience our product to develop and implement metrics strategies that measure what matters to our users and our business. This enables a deep understanding of our users and their motivation, in a complex ecosystem with multi-user engagement and many ways to interact with our product
- Build explanations on top of measurement, always grounding analysis in the reality that users are people with motivations and context the data alone won't tell you
- Use AI to multiply your impact. You'll use coding agents and automated analysis daily, and help shape what our AI-native analytics stack looks like, contributing to how we move from reactive to proactive to autonomous
Skills
- 6+ years in an analytics, data science, or decision science role at a consumer tech company
- Advanced degree in a quantitative field (economics, statistics, quantitative social science, operations research) or equivalent practical experience
- Demonstrated experience with causal inference methods in applied settings (e.g., difference-in-differences, instrumental variables, regression discontinuity, synthetic controls, propensity score matching)
- Track record of influencing product or business strategy through data, with specific examples of cross-functional impact
- Experience with experimentation platforms (Statsig, Optimizely, or similar)
- Proficiency in SQL and Python/R for statistical analysis
- Problem-solving mindset: You structure ambiguous problems precisely before reaching for a tool, AI or otherwise
- Ownership mentality: You take responsibility for your work from framing the question through delivering the recommendation and tracking its impact
- AI-native working style: You use AI tooling (Claude Code or equivalent) as a genuine development partner: delegating discrete tasks, reviewing outputs critically, and running parallel workstreams
- Curiosity and initiative: You don't wait for the roadmap to tell you what to analyze. You dig into data because you're genuinely curious about how things work
- Experience with subscription or freemium business models
- Familiarity with international / multi-market analytics
- Experience building dbt models or contributing to analytics engineering workflows
- Background in growth, retention, or lifecycle analytics
- Experience with LTV modeling, incrementality testing, or marketing mix modeling
Benefits
- Competitive pay and benefits.
- Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance plans (100% paid for US employees). We offer supplemental plans for medical and dental for Canadian employees.
- 401(k) plan with company matching program in the US and RRSP with DPSP plan for Canadian employees.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental wellness.
- Flexible PTO and 12 company wide days off throughout the year.
- Winter and Summer Weeklong Synchronized Company Shutdowns
- Learning & Development programs.
- Equipment, tools, and reimbursement support for a productive remote environment.
- Free Life360 Platinum Membership for your preferred circle.
- Free Tile Products
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