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Lead Data Scientist

Life360 · Remote, USA; Remote, Canada · Remote

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About Life360

Life360 is the leading family location safety app. Stay connected with your loved ones to ensure their safety with Life360. Backed by Bessemer and 500 Global.

About the role

As a Lead Data Scientist, you will own the path from revenue opportunity to production ML for Direct Revenue, the business unit responsible for growing active users, subscriptions, revenue-generating transactions, and in-app advertising across Life360's more than 100 million monthly active users. You will find the opportunities, size them, agree on priorities with business leads, and ship the models alongside the team's data scientists and engineers. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Education: advanced degree in a field that relies on sophisticated statistical analysis or equivalent industry experience
  • Professional Experience: 6+ years of experience scoping, building, and analyzing ML-powered systems, including models you have shipped to production
  • Causal Inference: Technical training and professional experience applying modern causal inference and causal analysis techniques
  • Instrumentation and Measurement: Significant experience working with found data, guiding instrumentation to generate new data, and implementing data transformations to support complex analyses and ML system development
  • Experimentation: Hands-on experience setting up experiments in the consumer technology space, including experiment design, monitoring, and analysis of results
  • Consumer Product Experience: Experience building ML or running experiments at a consumer (B2C) technology company, ideally on revenue work such as subscriptions, transactions, or ads
More about this role

Life360’s mission is to keep people close to the ones they love. Our category-leading mobile app, Tile tracking devices, and Pet GPS tracker empower members to protect the people, pets, and things they care about most with a range of services, including location sharing, safe driver reports, and crash detection with emergency dispatch. Life360 serves approximately 102.4 million monthly active users (MAU), as of June 30, 2026, across more than 180 countries.

Life360 delivers peace of mind and enhances everyday family life with seamless coordination for all the moments that matter, big and small. By continuing to innovate and deliver for our customers, we have become a household name and the must-have mobile-based membership for families (and those friends who are basically family).

Life360 has more than 500 (and growing!) remote-first employees. For more information, please visit life360.com .

Life360 is a Remote First company, which means a remote work environment will be the primary experience for all employees. All positions, unless otherwise specified, can be performed remotely (within the US and Canada) regardless of any specified location above.

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