<p><strong>Senior Data Scientist</strong></p><p>Hybrid | Austin, TX | Contract</p><p><br></p><p>Robert Half is partnering with an Austin-based client to hire a Senior Data Scientist for a long-term contract. Applicants must have a PhD in Statistics, Economics, or related quantitative discipline.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></p><ul><li>Lead the design, execution, and interpretation of A/B tests and quasi-experiments to evaluate user migration initiatives, growth marketing efforts, and campaign effectiveness.</li><li>Partner closely with cross-functional teams across product, engineering, and marketing to embed experimentation into product development and iteration cycles.</li><li>Serve as a subject-matter expert on experimentation best practices, including hypothesis formulation, metric selection, experimental design, and results interpretation.</li><li>Apply advanced causal inference techniques when randomized experiments are not feasible, or to inform prioritization and design.</li><li>Contribute to the development and scaling of centralized experimentation frameworks, tools, and documentation across the organization.</li><li>Independently extract, transform, and analyze data from complex, large-scale systems using SQL, Python, and related analytics tools.</li><li>Communicate insights and experimental results clearly and effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders to drive informed business decisions.</li><li>Stay current on emerging methodologies in experimentation, causal analysis, and applied statistics, and bring new ideas into practice.</li></ul>