Data Scientist: Measurement and Decision Sciences

Job Title:Data Scientist: Measurement and Decision Sciences

Role Overview:

This role partners with Marketing, Product, and Business leaders to measure impact, evaluate strategic opportunities, and drive data-informed decisions through experimentation, causal inference, econometrics, statistical analysis, and business insight generation.
This role serves as a trusted analytical partner, translating complex business questions into rigorous measurement frameworks and actionable recommendations that influence growth, customer experience, and commercial performance. The role combines experimentation, causal inference, econometrics, and business analytics to help leaders understand what drives performance, quantify impact, and make better strategic decisions.

About the role:
Lead experimentation and measurement initiatives

• Design, execute, and analyze A/B tests, holdouts, geo-experiments, and quasi-experimental studies.
• Conduct power analyses, sample sizing assessments, and experiment health reviews.
• Partner with stakeholders to define success metrics, guardrails, and decision criteria.
• Communicate experiment results and recommendations to business leaders.
• Develop measurement plans that enable rigorous evaluation of business initiatives and strategic investments.

Drive decision support and strategic analytics

• Perform deep-dive analyses to identify drivers of acquisition, conversion, retention, customer value, and business performance.
• Evaluate business opportunities using statistical and econometric methods to create customer segmentations.
• Apply causal inference and econometric techniques such as difference-in-differences, synthetic controls, panel data methods, instrumental variables, regression discontinuity, propensity score methods, and time-series analysis to estimate business impact.
• Develop frameworks for measuring incrementality, marketing effectiveness, customer behavior, and long-term business outcomes.
• Build decision-support models and scenario analyses to evaluate strategic alternatives and business tradeoffs.
• Translate ambiguous business problems into structured analytical approaches and actionable recommendations.

Define and operationalize business metrics

• Establish KPI definitions, measurement standards, and analytical best practices.
• Partner with engineering and analytics teams to improve data quality, telemetry, and reporting foundations.
• Ensure consistency of reporting and metric interpretation across business functions.
• Improve measurement frameworks that enable accurate tracking of business performance.

Partner cross-functionally

• Collaborate closely with Marketing, Product, Finance, Operations, and other business stakeholders.
• Influence roadmap prioritization, investment decisions, and strategic planning through analytical evidence.
• Present findings and recommendations to senior stakeholders in a clear and compelling manner.
• Act as a trusted advisor on measurement, experimentation, and business performance questions.

About you:

• 3-5 years of experience in analytics, statistics, econometrics, data science or relevant advanced quantitative degree
• Hands-on experience designing and analyzing experiments and observational studies. 
• Experience applying econometric and causal inference methods to real-world business problems. 
• Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences.

Company Overview

McAfee is a leader in personal security for consumers. Focused on protecting people, not just devices, McAfee consumer solutions adapt to users’ needs in an always online world, empowering them to live securely through integrated, intuitive solutions that protects their families and communities with the right security at the right moment.

Company Benefits and Perks:

We work hard to embrace diversity and inclusion and encourage everyone at McAfee to bring their authentic selves to work every day. We offer a variety of social programs, flexible work hours and family-friendly benefits to all of our employees.

• Bonus Program
• 401k Retirement Plan
• Medical, Dental, Vision, Basic Life, Short Term Disability and Long-Term Disability Coverage
• Paid Parental Leave
• Support for Community Involvement
• 14 Paid Company Holidays
• Unlimited Paid Time Off for Exempt Employees
• 96 Hours of Sick Time and 120 Hours of Vacation for Non-Exempt Employees Accrued Each Year

We're serious about our commitment to diversity which is why McAfee prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other legally protected status.

The starting pay range for this position is $81,120.00-$133,260.00. McAfee takes into consideration an individual’s skillset, experience and location in making final salary determinations. For further details, please discuss with the Talent Acquisition Partner.

Please click here to view and download the Job Applicant Privacy Notice, which applies to all McAfee job applicants who are residents of the state of California.