---
title: 'Senior Data Scientist - Product at Paraform'
canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-data-scientist-product-paraform-san-francisco-q183k0nxff3z'
type: 'job'
last_seen: '2026-09-06'
---

# Senior Data Scientist - Product at Paraform

- **Company:** Paraform
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $150k–$250k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-08-21
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/paraform/6c965457-f5bf-4a21-af96-1ab940c47335

## Job description

We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist to drive high-impact work across Growth, Core Product Flows, Incentives, and more. This is a high-ownership role. You will work end-to-end from problem framing to deployment and measurement, and you will help establish the foundations for how Paraform does experimentation, measurement, and applied ML.

Paraform sits at the intersection of a high-velocity marketplace and AI-native workflows. Your work will shape how we grow, how our core product performs, and how incentives drive behavior across recruiters and customers. If you want to build systems that improve outcomes at scale while working at the intersection of data, product, AI, and business, this is the job.

## WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

The current product roadmap focuses on:

- Growth: Define and measure the funnel, run experiments, and build models to improve acquisition, activation, retention, and revenue.
- Core product flows: Improve match quality and workflow speed across sourcing, outreach, CRM, and placements through metrics, analysis, and ML.
- Incentives: Design and evaluate pricing and payout incentives, forecast impact, and build guardrails against gaming and adverse outcomes.

## WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

- Product-minded: You connect analysis and modeling work to user outcomes and shipped product decisions.
- Strong causal thinking: You can distinguish correlation from causation and choose appropriate experimental or observational methods.
- Analytical excellence: You are fluent in SQL and can do rigorous analysis in Python (or similar).
- Modeling & ML: You can build, evaluate, and iterate on models used in production, and you know how to set up monitoring.
- Communication: You write and present clearly, and you can align cross-functional partners on definitions and decisions.
- High ownership: You can independently take ambiguous problems from 0 → 1.

## QUALIFICATIONS

- 4+ years of experience in data science, applied ML, analytics, or a closely related role.
- Strong experience with experimentation and/or causal inference in product settings.
- Strong experience with SQL and a general-purpose language (Python preferred).
- Experience partnering with engineering teams to ship models, metrics, or data products.
- Degree in data science, computer science, statistics, math, or another related field.

## PREFERRED

- Experience with data integration and pipeline development.
- Experience in marketplaces, growth, incentives, or pricing.
- Experience working with AI-assisted or agentic workflows.

## TECH STACK

- SQL, Python

## ABOUT PARAFORM:

Paraform is a marketplace modernizing one of the largest and most fragmented markets in the world: hiring. We partner with industry leaders like Decagon, Palantir, Rippling, Abridge, and Hightouch to hire world-class talent, and are growing quickly - 8×-ing revenue last year.

Paraform is the first end-to-end AI recruiting marketplace that connects companies with thousands of specialized recruiters and AI agents that work together to fill roles faster and more accurately.

Our mission is to make hiring fast, reliable, and scalable for every company in the world.

At Paraform, we believe recruiting works best when the right people are working on the right problems, combining human judgment with AI that truly understands hiring. That’s why we’re building a new foundation for how companies hire, bringing together specialized recruiters and modern AI tools.

We treat recruiters like entrepreneurs, not vendors – and we’re building the financial, operational, and technical infrastructure that powers their success.

We are backed by the best investors and technology leaders: Scale, Felicis, A*, BOND, Liquid 2, DST Global, the founders of YouTube, Instacart, Canva, and more.

## About Paraform

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Paraform is an Agentic Hiring Platform where expert recruiters and custom AI agents collaborate to help companies fill critical roles faster and more accurately.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B – $65M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, CA, USA
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: John and Jeff (co-founders; full names not publicly disclosed)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Internet Marketplace Platforms, Talent Acquisition, HR Technology
- **Target customers**: B2B – high-growth startups to category-leading enterprises (e.g., Palantir, Rippling, Abridge, Decagon, Cognition, Thomson Reuters); also serves SMB and mid-market companies
- **Mission**: “Building the talent infrastructure of the 22nd century” – making hiring exceptional talent as easy as pressing a button.

## Products & Services
- **Agentic Hiring Platform**: Combines a marketplace of specialized expert recruiters with proprietary AI agents that learn from hiring outcomes to surface and match the best candidates. Includes tools for sourcing, candidate matching, CRM, notetaking, scheduling, and back-office support.
- **Recruiter Marketplace**: Connects companies with vetted recruiters who have deep domain networks; recruiters get access to high-quality clients, AI tools, and business development support.
- **AI Recruiting Agents**: Custom AI agents that act on matching intelligence – running workflows, surfacing candidates, and automating follow-ups.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Total Funding**: $65M (Series B announced March 2026)
- **Key Metrics**: 1,000+ customer companies; 90 team members; recruiters on the platform have earned over $50M to date; average candidate hired earns ~$260K/year (total comp often $300K–$400K).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Led by Scale Venture Partners, with participation from Felicis, A* Capital, Liquid 2 Ventures; angel investors include CTO of Palantir, co-founders of Canva and YouTube, COO of Stripe, President of Shopify, CPO of Uber.
- **Growth Signals**: Rapid customer growth (1,000+ companies), high recruiter earnings (some exceed $300K/month, $1M+/year), expansion into verticals with acute talent scarcity.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Data Moat**: Proprietary data on hiring outcomes that compounds with every placement – creating signals no other platform has.
- **Human + AI Synergy**: AI agents handle repetitive tasks and pattern matching, while expert recruiters provide contextual insight (e.g., motivation, culture fit) that AI cannot easily infer.
- **Network Effects**: More recruiters attract more companies, which generate more data and better matches, reinforcing the platform’s intelligence.
- **Speed**: Companies typically meet their eventual hire within ~12 days, significantly faster than traditional processes.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale the marketplace**: Grow both customer and recruiter bases rapidly.
- **Deepen AI capabilities**: Invest in models that learn from real hiring outcomes and expand the agentic platform.
- **Vertical expansion**: Target talent-scarce verticals (engineering, GTM, finance, legal) and build infrastructure for modern, outcome-driven hiring.

## Why Work Here
- **Compensation & Equity**: Competitive salaries (e.g., Software Engineer $140K–$290K, Applied ML Engineer $190K–$240K, Product Manager $150K–$250K) plus meaningful equity.
- **Benefits**: 100% healthcare coverage (medical, dental, vision) with dependent plans; 401k; flexible PTO; daily catered meals by an in-house chef; Bay Club gym membership; Ramp corporate card; annual company offsites (e.g., Hawaii, Tokyo, Sydney, New York).
- **Office Policy**: In-person at San Francisco headquarters; roles listed as “San Francisco” with no explicit remote option.
- **Culture**: “We hire the best and treat them accordingly” – ownership mindset, high autonomy, focus on impact.

## Sources
1. [paraform.com/about](https://www.paraform.com/about)
2. [paraform.com/careers](https://www.paraform.com/careers)
3. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/paraformxyz)
4. [paraform.com/blog/series-b](https://www.paraform.com/blog/series-b)
5. [paraform.com](https://www.paraform.com/)

## Other roles at Paraform

- [Engagement Manager](https://feeny.ai/job/engagement-manager-paraform-san-francisco-mqpdr81h3chj) — San Francisco, CA
- [Talent Sourcer and Coordinator](https://feeny.ai/job/talent-sourcer-and-coordinator-paraform-san-francisco-fgrswstgn1af) — San Francisco, CA
- [Founding Technical Recruiter](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-technical-recruiter-paraform-san-francisco-kdcy6eep3ye5) — San Francisco, CA
- [Lead, Sales Strategy and Operations](https://feeny.ai/job/lead-sales-strategy-and-operations-paraform-san-francisco-1dzefnh8s5ar) — San Francisco, CA
- [Director, Account Management (Supply)](https://feeny.ai/job/director-account-management-supply-paraform-san-francisco-6r66k327mhmy) — San Francisco, CA
- [Founding Enablement Leader, GTM](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-enablement-leader-gtm-paraform-san-francisco-wshxqgrgncdm) — San Francisco, CA
- [Growth Marketing Manager](https://feeny.ai/job/growth-marketing-manager-paraform-san-francisco-4prbk78xkqyk) — San Francisco, CA
- [Associate Corporate Counsel](https://feeny.ai/job/associate-corporate-counsel-paraform-san-francisco-s0kjzpf4pn0k) — San Francisco, CA
- [Technical Lead Manager, AI Platform](https://feeny.ai/job/technical-lead-manager-ai-platform-paraform-san-francisco-zfvy64f58ffr) — San Francisco, CA
- [Senior FP&A Manager](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-fp-a-manager-paraform-san-francisco-nf2d9cqg4jgy) — San Francisco, CA