Senior Data Scientist

calm

San Francisco, CA; New York City, NY; Minneapolis, MN, US Remote · San Francisco · US Remote

Posted Aug 21, 2026

Other
Engineering

Job description

About Calm

Calm is a leading consumer mental health company on a mission to support everyone on every step of their mental health journey. Known for its flagship consumer app—ranked #1 in its category with over 180 million downloads and availability in seven languages across 190 countries—Calm helps people sleep better, stress less, and live more mindfully through content and tools from experts and beloved celebrity voices. Building on this foundation, Calm has created a broader portfolio including evidence-based solutions like Calm Health, offered through employers, health plans and providers, designed to expand access to mental health and sleep support, boost benefits engagement, and drive positive health outcomes. Today, Calm supports more than 3,500 organizations and reaches over 42 million covered lives through Calm Health. Calm has been recognized as a TIME100 Most Influential Company and one of Fast Company’s Brands That Matter. Learn more at calm.com.

What We Do

We are a team of insights specialists that focus on finding insights relevant to driving business outcomes across the Calm organization. For us, the business problem comes first (what are we trying to solve?) and the analysis follows (how do we best solve this problem?). Sometimes the solution is straightforward and sometimes it is highly complex, but in all cases we rely on data to drive our solutions.

What You’ll Do

As a Senior Data Scientist you will leverage Calm’s consumer data to help prioritize product and growth investments, identify opportunities to improve acquisition, conversion, engagement, retention, and subscriber growth, and automate analyses and data products for key decision-makers. In this role, you will partner across product and growth marketing to turn ambiguous business questions into clear analyses, experimentation plans, and actionable recommendations. You will use data to understand user behavior, measure the impact of product and marketing initiatives, and help teams make better decisions faster. This position is ideal for candidates who enjoy diving into new domains, building business intuition, and balancing statistical rigor with practical decision-making.

You Will:

Collaborate with stakeholders across product and growth marketing to analyze and communicate how trends in key metrics affect business performance
Partner with product teams to perform deep-dive analysis to understand user engagement behavior
Design, implement and analyze experiments to measure the impact of new features on core product metrics
Collaborate with partners across technical and non-technical teams to bridge the gap between data and action
Help key-decision makers stay informed about the state of the business through internal data products built in tools like Amplitude, Tableau and Mode
Develop strong cross-functional partnerships across Calm to drive our team's success

Who You Are

Strong proficiency in SQL
Comfortable manipulating data with Python or R
BA/BS in quantitative field such as Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline
Experience with designing, analyzing, and interpreting experiments
Ability to translate non-technical business requirements into technical solutions, and translate technical solutions into business outcomes
Strong relationship management and presentation skills
Pragmatic and impact-oriented, with the ability to balance scrappiness and rigor

Nice to Haves

Experience working on digital consumer products or subscription businesses
Experience supporting product analytics, experimentation, user acquisition, lifecycle marketing, or retention
Experience with causal inference, incrementality testing, attribution, or marketing measurement
Experience working with product analytics and BI tools such as Amplitude, Tableau, and Mode
Experience building scalable analyses, reporting, or measurement frameworks that enable self-service decision-making

Minimum Requirements

5 years of data science experience

Calm uses a geographic pay model that determines salaries based on the location where an employee lives. For this position, the base pay range across Calm’s pay tiers is as follows: $172,200 - $225,000. The base pay range represents the low and high end 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.

Calm may incorporate artificial intelligence technology to support the application review process, but rest assured that human reviewers are involved in all stages of the hiring process.

Calm is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities, including disabled veterans. If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application or interview process, please contact Calm’s Recruiting team at recruitingaccommodations@calm.com. All accommodation requests will be handled confidentially and assessed on a case-by-case basis.

We believe that mental health is health, and every person should be considered in the discussion. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity workplace, committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military or veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

Calm is deeply committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. We strive to create a mindful and respectful environment where everyone can bring their authentic self to work, and experience a culture that is free of harassment, racism, and discrimination.

Employment offers are contingent upon the successful completion of a background check. Roles which require access to certain types of information may also require the successful completion of a drug screening.

FOR US BASED POSITIONS: Calm participates in e-verify. E-verify provides the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.