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About Cantina:
Cantina Labs is a social AI company, developing a suite of advanced real-time models that push the boundaries of expression, personality, and realism. We bring characters to life, transforming how people tell stories, connect, and create. We build and power ecosystems. Cantina, our flagship social AI platform, is just the beginning.
If you're excited about the potential AI has to shape human creativity and social interactions, join us in building the future!
About the Role:
As a Data Scientist at Cantina, you’ll be a founding member of our data team and help lay the foundation for how data science is done here. And as an early team member in a new product category, you’ll partner with our product, marketing, and engineering teams to shape the future of AI-native social platforms. You’ll define product success, build models and surface insights that inform product decisions, and create systems that help the entire company work smarter with data.
What You’ll Do:
Work closely with product managers, marketers, engineers, and designers to define success metrics and inform our product and growth strategy
Design and analyze A/B tests and experiments to guide product and growth decisions
Build and maintain dashboards, reporting pipelines, and monitoring tools that turn product data into actionable insights
Research user behavior, and use the results to drive product innovation
Help foster a data-informed culture across product and leadership teams
What You’ll Bring:
5+ years of experience in a data science, product analytics, or similar quantitative role
Strong proficiency in SQL and hands on experience with data warehouses (Redshift, Snowflake, Bigquery) and tools like dbt or Airflow
Proficiency in Python for data analysis and machine learning. Experience with Hex is a plus.
Ability to translate ambiguous questions into structured analyses with clear takeaways
Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence decisions across technical and non-technical stakeholders
Compensation:
The anticipated annual base salary range for this role is between $180,000-$240,000. When determining compensation, a number of factors will be considered, including skills, experience, job scope, location, and competitive compensation market data.
Benefits:
Competitive salary and generous company equity
Medical, dental, and vision insurance – 99.99% of premiums covered by Cantina
42 days of paid time off, including:
15 PTO days
10 sick days
15 company holidays
2 floating holidays
Generous parental leave & fertility support
401(k) retirement savings plan
Lifestyle spending account – $500/month to use however you’d like
Complimentary lunch and snacks for in-office employees
One Medical membership, and more!
Cantina Labs San Francisco, California, USA Office
1 Letterman Dr, San Francisco, California, United States, 94129
Cantina Labs Sunnyvale, California, USA Office
111 W Evelyn Ave, STE 210, Sunnyvale, California, United States, 94086
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