About this role

Nearly $900B is spent on recruiting every year, yet the process remains broken. Paraform is building the global talent infrastructure where companies come to fill their most critical roles.

Through every search, placement, and interaction on our platform, we capture proprietary hiring data at scale. That data powers the agentic systems we are building to make hiring faster, smarter, and more precise.

We believe AI will create more jobs, not less by removing constraints and enabling companies to move faster and hire more ambitiously.

The role

We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist to drive high-impact work across Growth, Core Product Flows, Incentives, and more.

You will partner closely with Product, Engineering, Design, and Go-to-Market to:

Define the right metrics and causal questions
Instrument data so we can measure what matters
Build models and decision systems that improve outcomes for recruiters, candidates, and customers
Ship analysis and data products that change how the product behaves

This is a high-ownership role. You will work end-to-end from problem framing to deployment and measurement, and you will help establish the foundations for how Paraform does experimentation, measurement, and applied ML.

What you will work on

The current product roadmap focuses on:

Growth: Define and measure the funnel, run experiments, and build models to improve acquisition, activation, retention, and revenue.
Core product flows: Improve match quality and workflow speed across sourcing, outreach, CRM, and placements through metrics, analysis, and ML.
Incentives: Design and evaluate pricing and payout incentives, forecast impact, and build guardrails against gaming and adverse outcomes.

What we are looking for

Product-minded: You connect analysis and modeling work to user outcomes and shipped product decisions.
Strong causal thinking: You can distinguish correlation from causation and choose appropriate experimental or observational methods.
Analytical excellence: You are fluent in SQL and can do rigorous analysis in Python (or similar).
Modeling & ML: You can build, evaluate, and iterate on models used in production, and you know how to set up monitoring.
Communication: You write and present clearly, and you can align cross-functional partners on definitions and decisions.
High ownership: You can independently take ambiguous problems from 0 → 1.

Qualifications

4+ years of experience in data science, applied ML, analytics, or a closely related role.
Strong experience with experimentation and/or causal inference in product settings.
Strong experience with SQL and a general-purpose language (Python preferred).
Experience partnering with engineering teams to ship models, metrics, or data products.
Experience with data integration and pipeline development is a plus.
Experience in marketplaces, growth, incentives, or pricing is a plus.
Experience working with AI-assisted or agentic workflows is a plus.

Why this role matters

Paraform sits at the intersection of a high-velocity marketplace and AI-native workflows. Your work will shape how we grow, how our core product performs, and how incentives drive behavior across recruiters and customers.

If you want to build systems that improve outcomes at scale while working at the intersection of data, product, AI, and business, this is the job.

Compensation & logistics

Salary: $150K – $250K
Equity: Competitive
Visa sponsorship: Case-by-case
Employment type: Full-time
Location: San Francisco Bay Area
Report to: VP of Engineering

About Paraform:

Paraform is a marketplace modernizing one of the largest and most fragmented markets in the world: hiring. We partner with industry leaders like Cursor, Palantir, Windsurf, Decagon, Shopify, Coinbase, and Hightouch to hire world-class talent, and are growing quickly - 8×-ing revenue last year.

Paraform is the first end-to-end AI recruiting marketplace that connects companies with thousands of specialized recruiters and AI agents that work together to fill roles faster and more accurately.

Our mission is to make hiring fast, reliable, and scalable for every company in the world.

At Paraform, we believe recruiting works best when the right people are working on the right problems, combining human judgment with AI that truly understands hiring. That’s why we’re building a new foundation for how companies hire, bringing together specialized recruiters and modern AI tools.

We treat recruiters like entrepreneurs, not vendors – and we’re building the financial, operational, and technical infrastructure that powers their success.

We are backed by the best investors and technology leaders: Felicis, A*, BOND, Liquid 2, DST Global, the founders of YouTube, Instacart, Canva, and more.

Senior Data Scientist - Product