<h2><strong style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Role</strong></h2><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">As a Senior Data Scientist on Linktree’s Trust team, you will play a key role in protecting the integrity and health of our platform. You will apply your expertise in data science and statistical modeling to define how we measure harm, assess platform risk, and continuously improve our detection and mitigation systems.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">In this role, you will build and scale the core measurement framework that underpins Trust at Linktree, establishing clear, defensible definitions of harm prevalence, enforcement effectiveness, and user impact. You will partner closely with Engineering, Product, Policy, Legal, and Operations to identify emerging abuse patterns, size their impact, and ensure our mitigation systems are effective and aligned with our risk tolerance.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">You will also play a central role in evaluating and strengthening our ML and LLM-based safety systems. This includes defining high-quality ground truth datasets, establishing statistically sound evaluation benchmarks, and implementing monitoring frameworks to ensure model quality and reliability in production. In partnership with Engineering, you will identify failure modes, improve detection quality, and build monitoring frameworks that keep our systems effective as abuse patterns evolve.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Your work will directly shape how Linktree understands and prioritize platform risk and measures the effectiveness of its trust and safety investments.</span></div><div><br></div><h2><strong style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">What You’ll Own</strong></h2><div><br></div><ul><li class=""><span style="background-color: transparent;">Define and operationalize the core Trust metric frameworks that anchors company-wide north star goals and cross-functional team performance</span></li><li class=""><span style="background-color: transparent;">Refine and validate the scoring model used to assess Linktree quality and risk, ensuring heuristic logic is measurable, calibrated, and aligned with policy standards</span></li><li class=""><span style="background-color: transparent;">Build and maintain production-grade datasets and dashboards that provide reliable visibility into platform risk and system performance</span></li><li class=""><span style="background-color: transparent;">Identify and size emerging abuse patterns through deep-dive analysis, and translate findings into clear product, policy, operations and engineering priorities</span></li><li class=""><span style="background-color: transparent;">Partner with Engineering to define evaluation frameworks for ML detection and LLM-based safety systems, including ground truth design and performance benchmarking</span></li><li class=""><span style="background-color: transparent;">Monitor model health in production (e.g., precision, recall, calibration, drift) and proactively surface degradation, bias, or failure model</span></li><li class=""><span style="background-color: transparent;">Support Trust incident response through rapid analysis, impact sizing, and postmortem insights that drive durable improvements</span></li><li class=""><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Communicate risk trends and model performance insights through clear visualizations and executive-ready narratives</span></li></ul><div><br></div><h2><strong style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">What You'll Bring</strong></h2><div><br></div><ul><li class=""><span style="background-color: transparent;">5+ years as a Data Scientist in a product-driven technology company</span></li><li class=""><span style="background-color: transparent;">Direct experience in Trust & Safety, Integrity, Fraud, Security, or other risk-focused domains </span></li><li class=""><span style="background-color: transparent;">Proven ability to define and operationalize metric frameworks (e.g., Prevalence, Recall, and False Positive Rates) to evaluate the effectiveness of product, policy, or ML-driven interventions</span></li><li class=""><span style="background-color: transparent;">Experience evaluating machine learning models, including offline methodology, performance tradeoffs (precision/recall, calibration), and production monitoring</span></li><li class=""><span style="background-color: transparent;">Advanced SQL proficiency and fluency in Python (or R) for advanced analytics and modeling</span></li><li class=""><span style="background-color: transparent;">Strong foundation in statistics, experimentation design, and causal inference</span></li><li class=""><span style="background-color: transparent;">Experience working within mature data platforms and analytics engineering stacks (e.g., DBT, Dagster, Airflow)</span></li><li class=""><span style="background-color: transparent;">Experience designing intuitive, decision-oriented dashboards and compelling data visualizations using tools such as Hex, Looker, Tableau, or PowerBI</span></li><li class=""><span style="background-color: transparent;">Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate complex statistical findings and risk tradeoffs into clear recommendations for cross-functional stakeholders</span></li><li class=""><span style="background-color: transparent;">Bachelor’s Degree in a quantitative field (Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Physics, Economics, or related); an advanced degree (MS/PhD) is a strong plus.</span></li></ul><div><br></div><div><em style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Linktree is committed to providing a fair and competitive compensation package including cash, equity, and benefits. Final offers depend on multiple factors including location, experience, expertise, and role scope, and may vary from the range listed.</em></div><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">P.S. If you don’t tick every box in this listing, please don’t rule yourself out. We take pride in inclusion and hiring incredible human beings with great potential over ticking boxes – so if this role resonates with you, hit that apply button!</span></div><div><br></div><h2><strong style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Our Story</strong></h2><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We’re on a mission to empower anyone to curate, grow, and monetize their digital universe. We created the “link in bio” category — and we’re just getting started. From creators, artists, and entrepreneurs to global brands, we’re redefining how people connect with their communities, showcase their content and promote products — all in one link.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Today, a community of 70+ million use Linktree, including icons like Adidas, TikTok, the UN Environmental Program, The NFL, Manchester United, World Central Kitchen, Sabrina Carpenter, Olivia Rodrigo, and Selena Gomez. With 48,000 new accounts created every day, Linktree is the fastest-growing leader in our space.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We’ve teamed up with some of the world’s biggest platforms including TikTok, Snap, YouTube, GoFundMe, Spotify, Google, Stripe, Reddit, Laylo, and Kajabi, to unify Linkers’ digital spaces, and we partner with retail brands Amazon, Lululemon, Nike, Target, Sephora, Lululemon, and more to share products they love.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We’re a tight-knit, passionate team building best-in-class tools that make online presence simple, powerful, and yours. If you're excited by the idea of shaping a new category, setting the standard, and making space for everyone to be seen and succeed, we’d love to meet you.</span></div><h3><br></h3><h2><strong style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Where and How We Work</strong></h2><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We're a global, diverse team spread across continents with offices in London, Los Angeles, Melbourne, and San Francisco. We work together flexibly and you can choose the setup that works best for you: fully remote or a hybrid mix of office and home.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We offer autonomy in how you structure your days and weeks. While we’re mindful of time zones and occasionally collaborate outside the typical 9–5, we lean into async work to keep things flowing. Our culture is family-friendly and Zoom-casual where kids, pets, and delivery drivers are welcome.</span></div><div><br></div><h2><strong style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">How we’ll help you thrive</strong></h2><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Our approach to benefits considers the whole person and the unique contributions they bring to Linktree. We want the experience at Linktree to be one that enables people to truly thrive so we can Go Further Together (one of our values). Some ways we support you:</span></div><div><br></div><ul><li class=""><span style="background-color: transparent;">An annual wellbeing allowance to use on things like (but not limited to) fitness memberships, development courses, childcare, travel, charitable donations, pet insurance, home office set-up - the choice is yours!</span></li><li class=""><span style="background-color: transparent;">100% coverage (and 80% for your dependents) of your monthly premiums for medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance for US-based employees.</span></li><li class=""><span style="background-color: transparent;">Employer contribution towards your retirement.</span></li><li class=""><span style="background-color: transparent;">Generous time off for vacation, holidays, parental leave, volunteer time, and other categories.</span></li><li class=""><span style="background-color: transparent;">Employee stock option program - we want each and every employee to share in the company’s success.</span></li></ul><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">At Linktree, we believe in promoting a culture that celebrates unique backgrounds, talents, and experiences, and we’re proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are creating an inclusive workplace where every individual feels valued, respected, and has equal opportunities to thrive. We aim to foster a diverse and inclusive environment where all team members have a sense of belonging. Linktree welcomes all people regardless of sex, gender identity, race, ethnicity, disability, pregnancy, age, or other lived experience. If you require accommodations to fully participate in our opportunities, please don't hesitate to reach us at talent@linktr.ee – your needs are important to us.</span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
