Sr. Manager, Data Science

What We Do

The Data Science team partners with stakeholders across product, engineering, growth marketing, and finance to uncover insights that drive key business decisions. We focus on understanding the business problem first and then use data to solve it — whether through analysis, experimentation, or building scalable data products.

As a Senior Manager of Data Science, you’ll lead and grow a team of data scientists, build scalable analytics processes, and foster cross-functional partnerships that ensure data is always driving outcomes in service of Calm’s mission.

What You’ll Do

• Lead, mentor, and support a team of data scientists, providing clear objectives, effective feedback, and career development opportunities
• Collaborate with stakeholders across product, growth marketing, finance, and engineering to translate business problems into impactful data science solutions
• Lead and conduct analytics focused areas of product development: ideation, exploration, opportunity sizing, metric design, experimentation, and impact measurement
• Partner with product teams to perform deep-dive analysis on user engagement, growth, and retention to guide product development and business strategy
• Define and evolve Calm’s data science and analytics architecture, ensuring systems and tools (Amplitude, Tableau, Mode, internal platforms) scale with business needs
• Automate data flows, build internal data products, and empower decision-makers with timely and actionable insights
• Make strategic “buy vs build” decisions on tooling and infrastructure investments for data science
• Establish and roll out best practices for experimentation, measurement, and cross-functional collaboration
• Align team initiatives with Calm’s broader mission and company-wide goals

Who You Are

• 6+ years of analytics experience, ideally with digital consumer products or subscription businesses
• 2+ years of experience directly managing data scientists or analysts
• You have led teams with expertise in experimentation and causal inference
• Growth mindset: receives feedback easily and incorporates it quickly
• Proactive executor: thoughtful in approach and decisive in decisions
• Pragmatic: balance scrappiness and rigor
• You are proficient in SQL, and Python/R. You can roll up your sleeves when necessary
• Strong relationship management and executive presentation skills
• Possess an understanding of data modeling techniques, warehouses, and event streams
• Ability to translate complex analysis into insights that are accessible to non-technical stakeholders, and prioritize work based on highest business impact vs technical complexity

Nice to Haves

• User Acquisition Pipeline Experience in a D2C App Setting
• Experience working in Healthcare Analytics

Calm uses a geographic pay model that determines salaries based on the location where an employee lives. For this position, the base pay ranges across Calm’s pay tiers is as follows: $198,000 - $275,000. The base pay range represents the low and high ends of Calm’s salary range for this position. Not all candidates will be eligible for the upper end of the salary range. Exact salary will ultimately depend on multiple factors, which include the successful candidate's geographic location, skills, experience, and other qualifications. Calm uses employee zip code to determine which pay range applies. This role is also eligible for equity + comprehensive benefits + 401k + flexible time off.