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# Data Scientist at Retool

- **Company:** Retool
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $183k–$250k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-02-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/retool/am9icG9zdDqBGHD-VZVGcilDoagUDjbG

## Job description

## WHY WE'RE LOOKING FOR YOU

Retool is rapidly growing, and we’re tackling increasingly complex questions about our customers, product, and business. We’re looking for a Data Scientist to join our Data Science & Analytics team to help Retool make better, faster decisions at scale.

This is a generalist role for someone who’s excited by ambiguity, motivated by impact, and comfortable partnering across teams to shape strategy—not just report on outcomes. You’ll focus on understanding why things are happening, what signals matter most, and what Retool should do next, with success measured by real business and customer impact. Your work will inform company‑wide decisions across Product, GTM, and Leadership.

## WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Analyze customer behavior, product usage, and business performance to surface insights tied to core metrics like ARR, retention, and sales efficiency
- Frame ambiguous business questions into clear analytical approaches and recommendations
- Build models, frameworks, and narratives that influence strategy, prioritization, and tradeoffs
- Identify customer friction and risk early—and help teams act before issues escalate
- Enable teams to self‑serve on foundational analytics so you can stay focused on higher‑impact work

## WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH

Data science and analytics  is a centralized, company‑level function that partners closely across teams at Retool.

- Product and Engineering to inform product direction, roadmap, and prioritization
- GTM teams, such as Marketing, Sales, Customer Success, and RevOps, to understand acquisition, expansion, and retention dynamics
- Executive leadership—supporting strategic decisions across the company with clear, customer‑grounded insights

## THE SKILLSET YOU'LL BRING

We’re looking for someone who’s comfortable operating in fast‑moving, evolving environments, is comfortable making progress with imperfect information, and who enjoys owning problems end‑to‑end.

- 5+ years of experience working in data science and/or product analytics
- Experience working in startup or high‑growth environments, especially B2B SaaS
- Strong SQL proficiency with an eye for writing performant, robust queries
- Comfort operating in ambiguity and proactively identifying and defining business problems
- Experience helping teams shift from intuition‑driven to data‑informed decision‑making
- Exposure to experimentation, forecasting, or predictive modeling
- Experience designing data models and building pipelines to unblock yourself
- Strong ability to synthesize complex information (data, context, and constraints) into clear, concise narratives for business stakeholders
- Comfort moving quickly by default to produce actionable insights—and slowing down when the cost of a wrong decision is high
- Ease context‑switching across problem areas and teams, from high‑level strategy to low‑level details as needed

## About Retool

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Retool provides a platform for building, deploying, and managing custom internal software and AI applications by connecting to any database, API, or LLM.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: David Hsu (CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Software Development, Enterprise Internal Tools, AI Application Platform
- **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise, SMB; specifically developers, IT teams, and business operators building internal software
- **Mission or purpose**: To enable companies to build production-ready internal software and AI applications dramatically faster, with enterprise-grade security and governance, so that domain experts and developers alike can solve critical business problems.

## Products & Services
- **Retool App Builder**: A low-code platform to build custom internal apps (dashboards, admin panels, CRUD tools) by connecting to databases and APIs. Type: SaaS/Platform.
- **Retool Workflows**: A visual automation tool to build and orchestrate complex business processes and backend logic. Type: SaaS/Platform.
- **Retool AI**: An AI-powered app generation capability that transforms natural language into production-ready applications, agents, and workflows, integrating with any LLM. Type: AI Feature/Platform.
- **Retool Mobile**: A solution to build and deploy internal mobile apps from the same Retool platform. Type: SaaS/Platform.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (last round was Series C).
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of $5 million (as per LinkedIn company data); Total Funding of $141.3 million.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sequoia Capital (lead), Nat Friedman, John Collison, Daniel Gross. Customers include Amazon, Stripe, Brex, and Orangetheory Fitness.
- **Growth Signals**: Over 10,000 organizations use Retool. The company has automated over 100 million hours of work. It has 6 offices across the US and UK. Despite a recent headcount reduction (-11% YoY), it maintains a strong brand in the enterprise internal tools space and is aggressively pivoting into AI-powered app generation.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Enterprise Governance from Day One**: Unlike point solutions, apps built in Retool are production-ready and pass security reviews, eliminating the need for rebuilds or audit scrambles.
- **Deep Data Connectivity**: Securely connects to existing databases, APIs, and internal systems, ensuring apps run on real data with real permissions.
- **Unified Platform**: One platform to manage, orchestrate, and scale all internal apps, agents, and workflows, providing centralized visibility and governance for IT.
- **Trusted by Large Enterprises**: A strong customer base of high-profile companies (Amazon, Stripe, Brex) serves as a powerful validation of its enterprise readiness.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI as the Core Platform**: Retool is positioning itself as the "first enterprise AppGen platform," where AI is used to generate production-ready code from natural language, expanding the definition of "developer" to include analysts and operators.
- **Scaling Enterprise Features**: The company is focused on building out governance, security, and platform capabilities to support large-scale deployments across complex organizations.
- **International Expansion**: With offices in London and a German-speaking Sales Engineer role, Retool is actively expanding its presence in the European market.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: The company values ambition, intense curiosity, energy, and deep care. They emphasize moving fast, acting like an owner, and being both demanding and supportive.
- **Work Environment**: Hybrid model with offices in San Francisco, New York, Salt Lake City, and London. The company believes great work happens when teams collaborate in person.
- **Product Impact**: Employees are close to the product and use Retool internally, giving them a direct voice in improving it. The mission is to enable a wider community of builders to create production-grade software safely.
- **Hiring Process**: Structured, with initial recruiter/hiring manager chats, a technical evaluation or practical exercise, and a final round of 3–5 interviews. The company aims for transparency and candidate preparation.
- **Employee Sentiment**: Employer rating of 3.4/5.0 (127 reviews). Strengths include Work-Life Balance (4.1) and Culture (3.7). Compensation (3.4) and Career (3.4) are areas for potential improvement.

## Sources
1. [retool.com](https://retool.com/)
2. [retool.com/careers](https://retool.com/careers)
3. [retool.com/about](https://retool.com/about)
4. [linkedin.com/company/tryretool](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tryretool)
5. [jobs.gem.com/retool](https://jobs.gem.com/retool)

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