Data Scientist - Product Analytics

About the company
Kodex revolutionizes how organizations handle sensitive subpoenas and data requests from law enforcement and government agencies. Founded by a former FBI agent and backed by leading investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, and Thiel Capital, Kodex has become the industry standard for secure data exchange. Our platform supports over 15,000 government agencies in 190 countries and is trusted by industry leaders like Coinbase, Stripe, and AT&T.
By transforming a traditionally complex and manual process into a streamlined digital workflow, Kodex helps organizations strengthen compliance, enhance security, and reduce operational costs by millions each year. We bridge the gap between companies and authorized requestors, ensuring that sensitive data is handled with uncompromising security, transparency, and efficiency.

The Role

Kodex is seeking an experienced and strategic Senior Data Scientist – Product & Platform Analytics to lead data-driven decision-making across our platform. You’ll help define how we measure success, uncover insights that shape our product roadmap, and partner across Product, Engineering, Operations, and Marketing to optimize business performance. You will also play a critical role in scaling our analytics infrastructure and developing models to uncover behavioral patterns, detect anomalies, and drive intelligence into our products.

This is a highly visible, high-impact role for someone who thrives in ambiguity, builds clarity from data, and influences product direction through evidence-backed insights.

Key Responsibilities

• Refine ambiguous questions and generate hypotheses through a deep understanding of our data, customers, and product dynamics.

• Define how teams measure success by developing and maintaining KPIs and user/business metrics in close partnership with Product, Engineering, Operations, and Marketing.

• Lead the design and interpretation of A/B tests and other experiments to evaluate product features and business strategies.

• Collaborate with data scientists and engineers to improve the availability, reliability, and accuracy of logging, data pipelines, and data infrastructure.

• Build large-scale data architectures and modeling frameworks to identify user behavior patterns, flag anomalies, and surface risk signals across Kodex workflows.

• Perform deep-dive analysis to uncover user behavior patterns, operational inefficiencies, and product opportunities.

• Develop compelling, data-driven stories and present findings to senior leadership to guide product strategy and business decisions.

• Build and maintain dashboards and automated reports that enable real-time monitoring of platform health, product performance, and business impact.

• Support prioritization of product and optimization initiatives through clear, actionable insights grounded in rigorous analysis.

• Support and guide other technical team members to foster a strong data culture across the organization.

What you bring

• Bachelor’s degree with 6+ years of experience or Master’s/PhD with 4+ years of experience in a quantitative field such as Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, Economics, or Mathematics.

• Advanced proficiency in SQL and Python, with experience using libraries such as Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, and scikit-learn.

• Expertise in experimental design, causal inference, and applied statistics, including real-world implementation of A/B testing and observational studies.

• Strong data modeling and analytical problem-solving skills, with a track record of generating insights that have influenced high-stakes product and business decisions.

• Proven experience working with data visualization tools (e.g., Databricks, Looker, Tableau) to create impactful visual stories.

• Experience with data pipeline architecture and workflow orchestration (e.g., dbt, Airflow, Spark) is a plus.

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence across disciplines and levels of seniority.

• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and moving quickly in a fast-paced, startup environment.

Benefits

• Remote-first within the U.S.

• Biannual offsites in exciting locations. Past trips include Seattle, Miami, Nashville, and San Francisco

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity

• Unlimited PTO + 14 company holidays

• 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave, with a flexible return-to-work policy

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans

• 401(k) retirement plan

• Dynamic Environment: Work on impactful, high-priority matters with opportunities for professional growth.

Equal Employment Opportunities at the Company

Kodex is committed to hiring talented and qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds for all of its tech, non-tech, and leadership roles. Kodex believes that the gathering and celebration of unique backgrounds, qualities, and cultures enriches the workplace.