Prodigy Education is a global leader in game-based learning. Our mission is to help every student in the world love learning, motivating more than 20 million students a year to practice standards-aligned math and English. More than 800,000 teachers use Prodigy as a free instructional tool. Fun, motivating, and research-based, Prodigy is the EdTech platform students actually ask to use. Visit www.prodigygame.com to learn more.

As a Senior Data Scientist on our data team, you'll leverage your analytical expertise, deep understanding of user behaviour, and strong experimental design capabilities to drive strategic decision-making and optimize product engagement. You'll collaborate closely with Product Managers, Designers, Engineers, and other data professionals to uncover actionable insights, identify impactful opportunities, and improve the user experience of our platform.

This role uniquely positions you to shape Prodigy’s educational tools and directly influence how millions of teachers and students interact with our product. Your insights and analysis will guide the development and iteration of features, ensuring a user-centered approach to product enhancements.

Your Impact

• Drive high-impact, strategic product analytics projects aligned with Prodigy's organizational objectives and OKRs, significantly influencing product decisions and user experience.

• Collaborate effectively with product stakeholders to consistently define complex problems, identify data-driven opportunities, and implement solutions that deliver meaningful, long-term impact.

• Design, execute, and evaluate statistically rigorous experiments to measure the effectiveness of new features and updates, ensuring rapid, high-quality insights to guide product iteration.

• Break down complex and ambiguous projects into clearly defined tasks and deliverables, working collaboratively with cross-functional data team members to ensure timely and impactful execution.

• Enhance data accessibility and transparency by developing and maintaining dashboards and visualizations tracking key user behavior KPIs, enabling teams to quickly identify trends, opportunities, and actionable insights.

• Champion data quality and best practices, closely collaborating with Data Engineering and cross-functional teams to maintain reliable, accurate data assets that empower effective decision-making.

• Provide clear, concise communication of analytical findings to diverse stakeholders, ensuring insights are accessible, actionable, and aligned with strategic product objectives.

• Serve as a key advisor to product teams and stakeholders, fostering data-informed decision-making aligned with Prodigy’s strategic goals and long-term vision.

• Foster a collaborative environment by sharing knowledge and elevating the team's analytical expertise through mentorship, resource sharing, and active participation in continuous learning.

• Actively contribute feedback and propose enhancements to data tooling, workflows, and processes, improving overall team efficiency and effectiveness.

About You

• 4+ years of experience in data science, product analytics, and experimentation, demonstrating measurable impact through statistical methods (e.g., hypothesis testing, regression analysis, causal inference).

• Strong communicator, adept at translating complex analytical insights into clear, actionable recommendations for technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Proven ability to drive key product roadmap decisions using user-centric analytics, experimentation, and incremental impact analysis.

• Passionate about continuous learning, regularly exploring and applying advanced analytical methods, experimental frameworks, and innovative data technologies to solve product-focused problems.

• Proficient in SQL and Python/R for data extraction, analysis, modeling, and automation.

• Experienced in building comprehensive dashboards and visualizations using Databricks, Tableau, Looker, or Sigma, with proficiency in creating data assets using DBT.

• Experience deploying production-level ML models impacting user experience.

• Demonstrated expertise in user behavior analytics, engagement funnels, and interpreting key product KPIs to measure and enhance user experience.

Bonus Points

• Demonstrated success influencing product roadmaps through deep user behavior analysis.

• Advanced familiarity with Bayesian experimentation methodologies

• Non-traditional background: We highly value diverse career paths and perspectives.

Core Technologies

• Languages: SQL, Python (R optional)

• Tooling: Databricks, DBT, MLFlow

• Distributed Computing: Spark

• BI Platforms: Sigma, Tableau, Looker

Working at Prodigy

• Be part of a mission-driven organization dedicated to helping every student in the world love learning! At Prodigy Education, your work positively impacts the lives of millions of students and teachers worldwide.

• Join a company which empowers a Growth Mindset among its team members, so you grow as we do. You’ll also work on award-winning products which harness the magic of math and power of language for students in grades 1st-8th.

• We understand that a thriving team is at the core of our success. So, on top of an inspirational mission and rewarding work, our Total Rewards Program reflects our commitment to your financial, physical, and mental well-being.

• It’s not just about the work though; it's about the culture. As the Toronto Star reports in a recent feature on Prodigy: "Prodigy’s secret sauce is that it sees its corporate culture as something that is built slowly from the ground up and is always evolving.” Check it out here.

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Prodigy Math is used by almost one million teachers a year, and was named the most popular supplemental education platform in classrooms in the United States! Our products have also won numerous consumer awards, including the Mom’s Choice Award, Parent and Teacher Choice Awards, and National Parenting Product Award.

Come as you are. We believe the power of our collective potential will transform education. We are building towards a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace to empower and create access and opportunity for all. We welcome applications from people from all underrepresented groups, including (but not limited to) people of any gender, age, or religion, members of the LGBTQIA2+ community, BIPOC and other underrepresented races and nationalities, people with disabilities, veterans, and anyone who may contribute to the further diversification of Prodigy Education. If you feel like you don’t have all the qualifications for this position and are willing to use your initiative to learn the rest, we’d still love for you to apply!

We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to providing employment accommodation in accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005 (AODA). Prodigy Education will provide accommodations to job applicants with disabilities throughout the recruitment process. If you require accommodation, please notify us at jobs@prodigygame.com, and we will work with you to meet your needs.