Senior Data Scientist, Product Analytics & Experimentation (Contract)
Russell Tobin is seeking a Data Scientist for a 4-month remote contract with a global technology company. This role focuses on product analytics, experimentation, and user behavior analysis for account access, user appeals, and platform integrity. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive insights impacting user engagement and platform safety.
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Technical Skills Required
Benefits & Perks
Job Description
Data Scientist (Contract) – Product Analytics & Experimentation
Location: UK – Fully Remote
Contract Length: 4 Months
Start Date: January 2026
About the Role
We are partnering with a high-scale global technology company to hire a Data Scientist for a 4-month remote contract. This role sits within a team focused on account access, user appeals, and platform integrity for millions of users.
You will work closely with product, engineering, measurement, and security teams to deliver insights that have a direct impact on daily and monthly active users, as well as overall platform safety.
This is a fast-paced, product-focused analytics role that combines experimentation, user behaviour analysis, and data storytelling.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead product analytics to identify behavioural trends and opportunities for improving user access flows.
- Design, run, and analyse experiments; guide teams on power analysis, metrics (precision/recall), and testing frameworks.
- Translate complex data into clear, actionable insights for cross-functional partners.
- Use causal inference methodologies to evaluate the impact of product and policy changes.
- Partner with engineering, product managers, and security teams to understand reasons for account blocks, identify trade-offs, and improve appeal systems.
- Support two core areas:
- Actor Appeals – analysing mistakes in automated blocking systems.
- Content Appeals – improving clarity and fairness for users challenging decisions.
- Work with a sister team that supports hacked account recovery and user safety.
What Makes This Role Unique
- Your insights directly influence platform trust, user safety, and key engagement metrics used in quarterly business reporting.
- Opportunity to work within a large-scale, consumer-facing tech environment with billions of interactions.
- Exposure to highly cross-functional, product-led workflows.
Top 3 Must-Haves
- Advanced SQL (product-oriented queries, large datasets)
- Hands-on experimentation experience (A/B testing, power analysis, precision/recall)
- Strong product analytics mindset (user journey understanding, problem framing, decision-making)
Experience Level: 5–7+ years (flexible as long as skills align)
Candidate Profile
You thrive in user-centric problem solving, can navigate ambiguity, and enjoy partnering with cross-functional groups to define next steps. You understand the trade-offs between safety, access, and user experience, and can communicate insights clearly to both technical and non-technical partners.
Candidates with a pure ML research background (not product or experimentation-focused) may not be the best fit.