# Staff Data Scientist at Courtyard

- Company: Courtyard
- What the company does: Rip digital packs, reveal physical trading cards. Buy and sell Basketball, Baseball, Football, and Pokémon cards graded by PSA, CGC, and BGS. Redeem worldwide. Backed by NEA and Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://courtyard.io/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-08-03
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/courtyardinc/jobs/4343723009
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/courtyard-staff-data-scientist/

## About the role

Courtyard is hiring a Staff Data Scientist who operates more like a founder within the data function than a traditional big-tech analyst — someone self-driven enough to spot where DS can move the business, dig in unprompted, and land on a recommendation, not just an observation. You'll work across marketing, product, finance, and operations, in a business with a genuinely probabilistic core, so you should think naturally in ranges and likely outcomes.

## What they're looking for

- Self-driven — finds the valuable problem before it's handed to you, doesn't stop at "here's what the data shows"
- Comfortable with real ambiguity and messy system — digs until you understand what's happening
- Broad enough technically to navigate engineering/data infra and pair with AI on the hard parts, not just research
- Strong quantitative intuition, including reasoning under uncertainty
- Experience spanning multiple functions (marketing, product, finance, operations), not one narrow domain
- Sharp communicator — turns analysis into recommendations leadership can act on

Tags: Engineering