Staff Data Scientist Growth

Alpaca is a brokerage infrastructure company providing developer APIs for stocks, options, fixed income, and crypto trading, plus tokenization infrastructure for TradFi–DeFi markets.

San Mateo, California, United States
About Alpaca

Alpaca provides API-first brokerage infrastructure for fintechs, institutions, algorithmic traders, and developers. Its offerings include Broker API, Trading API, market data, self-clearing brokerage services, crypto services, and the Instant Tokenization Network for in-kind minting and redemption of tokenized assets.

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Skills

About the Role

You will own growth analytics across acquisition, activation, retention, and monetization. You will design experiments, build growth models and metrics, measure marketing impact, enable self-service analytics, communicate insights, and mentor data practitioners.

Requirements

  • Expertise in growth or product analytics and data science
  • Strong background in statistical analysis and experimentation
  • Experience with acquisition, activation, retention, churn, LTV, CAC, cohort analysis, and lifecycle or CRM analytics
  • Experience designing experimentation tooling and frameworks for A/B tests and causal-inference or incrementality analyses

Responsibilities

  • Analyze the end-to-end growth funnel and identify high-leverage opportunities
  • Design and execute A/B tests and causal or incrementality studies
  • Build experimentation guardrails, metrics, and self-service tooling
  • Build retention, cohort, churn, LTV, CAC, payback, unit-economics, and forecasting models
  • Measure marketing and partnership impact through attribution and incrementality testing
  • Define and maintain growth metrics and a North Star
  • Partner with Product, Marketing, Sales, Engineering, and Finance to shape strategy
  • Create visualizations and narratives for growth insights
  • Operationalize self-service and agentic analytics
  • Mentor data scientists and analysts and set best practices

Benefits

  • Stock options
  • Health benefits
  • One-time USD 500 new-hire home-office setup
  • USD 150 monthly stipend via a Brex Card