# Staff Data Scientist, Grant at Kikoff

- Company: Kikoff
- What the company does: Kikoff's credit building app is the the fastest way to build credit safely, with plans from $5/month. Backed by Lightspeed.
- Company website: https://kikoff.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-25
- Apply by: 2026-11-09
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/kikoff/jobs/4421304009
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/kikoff-staff-data-scientist-grant/

## About the role

You'd be the fourth Data Scientist focused on the Grant business, and part of a larger Kikoff wide Data team. You'll take on a product area within Grant as its data lead, working day to day with the leads for that area, and you'll bring a staff-level view to the Grant-wide conversations on where the business goes next.

## What they're looking for

- Experience partnering with product, engineering, and marketing peers across the whole arc of the work: strategy, goal setting, approach, and execution, not just the analysis at the end
- A track record of defining metrics from scratch and getting a team to run on them
- Designed and run experimentation programs, including changes where clean randomization wasn't available. Comfortable with quasi-experimental and causal inference methods, and clear about their limits
- Hands-on with production-quality SQL and Python. You build pipelines, analyses, and models yourself
- Experience building or working closely with models that drive decisions in a product, in any domain: ranking, fraud, forecasting, personalization, underwriting, detection. We care about the judgment, not the vertical
- AI tools are a core part of your daily analytical work and you can show how they changed the speed and quality of what you ship

Tags: Data