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full-timeSenior Data Scientist, AI Product Insights
Mixpanel · San Francisco, US (Hybrid)
Mixpanel provides a product intelligence and analytics platform that helps companies understand how users interact with their digital products. The Proactive Insights team is building an AI-first layer that automatically surfaces explanations for changes in key metrics and recommends actions. As the first Data Scientist embedded in product engineering, you will design and validate the statistical methods behind features such as Signals, Forecasting, Simulation, and Cohort Detection. Day-to-day work includes selecting causal inference or time-series models, running experiments, documenting methodology, and collaborating with product engineers to translate model outputs into clear, natural-language insights for customers. You will also work with AI platform, analysis, and data-infrastructure teams to scale these solutions across the product. The role suits experienced data scientists with strong backgrounds in causal inference, statistical modeling, or machine learning, who enjoy high-autonomy, cross-functional collaboration and want to shape the analytical direction of a new analytics offering.
About Mixpanel Mixpanel is the leading product intelligence and analytics platform, trusted by more than 29,000 companies to help understand how people use the products they build. By combining powerful analytics with AI that knows your business, Mixpanel helps teams see what’s working, diagnose what’s not, and decide what to build next. Learn more at mixpanel.com . About the Team The Proactive Insights team is a newly formed team at the center of Mixpanel's AI-first analytics vision. With a greenfield charter, we're building the intelligent layer that transforms Mixpanel from a tool you query into a partner that works for you. We answer the question every data-driven team asks: "What changed, why, and what should I do about it?" We proactively keep users informed about what matters in their data, delivering the right insights and recommendations at the right time, to the right places, both inside and outside of Mixpanel. Some examples of what we are building: Signals : Statistical analysis that automatically identifies which user behaviors cause downstream business outcomes — such as which actions genuinely improve 30-day retention — using causal inference to move beyond correlation Forecasting : Time-series modeling that projects whether a KPI (e.g. Signups) will hit its goal by end of quarter — including trend decomposition, seasonality adjustment, and confidence bands against a target. Simulation : Causal impact modeling that estimates how moving one metric (e.g. weekly sharing rate) by a given amount will ripple through to downstream KPIs like retention or revenue — giving teams a quantified basis for prioritization Cohort Detection : Automated identification of at-risk user cohorts by finding active users who resemble known churned segments across both behavioral patterns and descriptive characteristics, before they churn. Offline batch survival analysis models that estimate each user's probability of a future outcome (e.g. likelihood to churn or convert within 30 days). About the Role As the first Data Scientist embedded in product engineering, you'll champion integrating cutting-edge data science techniques into Mixpanel's products and serve as a methodological resource for cross-functional teams tackling problems that benefit from deeper DS expertise — such as adaptive experimentation. You won't just advise on Proactive Insights; you'll be the analytical brain driving how Signals, Forecasting, Simulation, Predictions, and Cohort Detection actually work. Your models are the reasoning layer behind an AI system that proactively tells customers what changed, why, and what to do next — and increasingly, the layer behind an agent that acts on their behalf. As more of this experience becomes agentic, rigorous causal grounding is what separates a trustworthy recommendation from a plausible-sounding one. You'll be the person who makes sure it's the former. You'll design and validate causal inference approaches that go beyond surface-level correlation, and partner on how those outputs get translated — often via LLMs — into clear, natural-language, actionable experiences for Mixpanel's customers: you own the rigor, the system owns the explanation. You'll partner closely with strong product engineers who own the implementation — your job is to make sure the methodology is rigorous, well-documented, and grounded in real outcomes. You'll also collaborate cross-functionally with teams like AI platform, analysis, and data infrastructure to scale your analytic solutions beyond what you could build alone. This is a high-impact, high-autonomy role on a small, fast-moving team. You'll have significant influence over the analytical direction of a new product category at Mixpanel that helps thousands of companies understand what truly drives their most important metrics. Responsibilities Own the end-to-end analytical design for Signals, Forecasting, Simulation, and Cohort Detection — including methodology selection, statistical validation, and iteration based on results Assess data quality and trust prerequisites before extending forecasting or predictive features to customers — a model is only as trustworthy as the data feeding it Design and apply causal inference methods to move beyond correlation and establish which user behaviors genuinely drive downstream business outcomes Build and own time-series forecasting models that project KPI trajectories against goals — extending our existing use of TimesFM into customer-facing forecasting features Build survival analysis and retention models that underpin Signals and Simulation outputs Develop clustering and behavioral similarity approaches for Cohort Detection that are both statistically sound and interpretable to end users Document methodology clearly — including assumptions, validation approaches, and expected output behavior — so engineers can implement reliably without ambiguity Review and validate that production results match expected statistical behavior, partneri
| Role | Senior Data Scientist, AI Product Insights |
|---|---|
| Company | Mixpanel |
| Location | San Francisco, US (Hybrid) |
| Type | internship |
| Compensation | Not disclosed |
| Posted | 2026-09-30 |
| Deadline | Rolling |
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