Localyst Data Scientist (Full Time, Remote)

Position: Localyst Data Scientist (Full Time, Remote)

Organization: Localyst

Reports to: VP of the Data & Tech, Mariia Vysochina

Direct Reports: N/A

Location: Full-time, 100% remote position in the United States (from home or co-working space) with occasional travel once every 2-3 months

COVID-19: We take Covid-19 safety very seriously. Employees must follow our Covid safety protocols and be fully vaccinated and boosted. Accommodations are provided to the extent required by law. For employees based in the state of Florida and Texas, the COVID-19 vaccine is encouraged but not required due to Florida and Texas state laws.

About Localyst

Localyst is a mission-driven non-profit dedicated to making a meaningful impact in the fight against the climate crisis. Localyst attracts and engages subscribers through innovative digital storytelling on Facebook Messenger and Instagram. By regularly broadcasting stories that resonate with diverse communities, Localyst builds long term relationships with subscribers based on highly engaging content, and encourages subscribers to take various forms of civic action, like registering to vote, and casting votes on Election Day.

Localyst is a digital media venture within Accelerate Change (AC), which is a nonprofit media lab dedicated to catalyzing new scalable and sustainable digital media models for citizen engagement. See “The Secret of Scale” for more on AC’s model for scalable citizen organizing read and see “The Promise of Lean Experimentation” for AC’s approach to experimentation using Lean Startup methodologies and other business strategies, both from the Stanford Social Innovation Review.

About the Position

Localyst is seeking a focused, mission-driven Data Scientist to lead our experimentation strategy and help us understand how different audience segments respond to campaigns. You’ll scope A/B tests, evaluate results with statistical rigor, and build lightweight models to help us target more effectively. You won’t be building data pipelines or dashboards, you’ll be working with clean data from our warehouse, supported by the data team.

This role is a fit for someone who’s great at designing tests, interpreting user behavior, and turning findings into usable insights, especially in a fast-moving, high-impact environment.

Here’s what you could expect to do as Data Scientist (key responsibilities):

• Design and validate A/B and multivariate experiments with clear hypotheses, metrics, and lift thresholds

• Analyze engagement performance by geography, audience type, message variation, and more

• Build simple clustering or scoring models (e.g., KMeans, logistic regression) to support targeting

• Collaborate with analysts and engagement leads to interpret results and identify next steps

• Maintain documentation of experiments, test logic, and learning

• Work with the VP of Data & Tech to ensure models and experiments are scalable and sound

We’ll also look for the Data Scientist to:

• TBD. As part of a rapidly growing organization, you’ll need to embrace change and that your responsibilities will shift over time. Pitching in to help with the needs of your department and the overall Central Team is an important part of your role.

• Help advance our goal of becoming an anti-racist organization. Within your role, apply equitable work practices, challenge white supremacy, and help make our programs more inclusive. Center our understanding that multiple systems of oppression intersect with racism and be an active part of our values work.

• Take an entrepreneurial approach to their work and learning new skills. In our fast-paced, unstructured environment, we love it when staff first try to figure things out on their own and then ask for help