Sr. Manager, Data Science

About Calm

Calm is a leading consumer mental health company on a mission to support everyone on every step of their mental health journey. Known for its flagship consumer app—ranked #1 in its category with over 180 million downloads and availability in seven languages across 190 countries—Calm helps people sleep better, stress less, and live more mindfully through content and tools from experts and beloved celebrity voices. Building on this foundation, Calm has created a broader portfolio including evidence-based solutions like Calm Health, offered through employers, health plans and providers, designed to expand access to mental health and sleep support, boost benefits engagement, and drive positive health outcomes. Today, Calm supports more than 3,500 organizations and reaches over 17 million covered lives through Calm Health. Calm has been recognized as a TIME100 Most Influential Company and one of Fast Company’s Brands That Matter. Learn more at calm.com.

Location: We are hiring primarily remote team members for this role, based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York City, or Minneapolis areas. While the role is primarily remote, you may be asked to come into the office as needed for in-person collaboration or team events. At this time, only candidates currently living in one of these locations will be considered. We’re currently unable to consider candidates outside these areas or offer relocation.

What We Do

The Data Science team partners with stakeholders across product, engineering, growth marketing, and finance to uncover insights that drive key business decisions. We focus on understanding the business problem first and then use data to solve it — whether through analysis, experimentation, or building scalable data products.

As a Senior Manager of Data Science, you’ll lead and grow a team of data scientists, build scalable analytics processes, and foster cross-functional partnerships that ensure data is always driving outcomes in service of Calm’s mission.

What You’ll Do

• Lead, mentor, and support a team of data scientists, providing clear objectives, effective feedback, and career development opportunities
• Collaborate with stakeholders across product, growth marketing, finance, and engineering to translate business problems into impactful data science solutions
• Lead and conduct analytics focused areas of product development: ideation, exploration, opportunity sizing, metric design, experimentation, and impact measurement
• Partner with product teams to perform deep-dive analysis on user engagement, growth, and retention to guide product development and business strategy
• Define and evolve Calm’s data science and analytics architecture, ensuring systems and tools (Amplitude, Tableau, Mode, internal platforms) scale with business needs
• Automate data flows, build internal data products, and empower decision-makers with timely and actionable insights
• Make strategic “buy vs build” decisions on tooling and infrastructure investments for data science
• Establish and roll out best practices for experimentation, measurement, and cross-functional collaboration
• Align team initiatives with Calm’s broader mission and company-wide goals

Who You Are

• 6+ years of analytics experience, ideally with digital consumer products or subscription businesses
• 2+ years of experience directly managing data scientists or analysts
• You have led teams with expertise in experimentation and causal inference
• Growth mindset: receives feedback easily and incorporates it quickly
• Proactive executor: thoughtful in approach and decisive in decisions
• Pragmatic: balance scrappiness and rigor
• You are proficient in SQL, and Python/R. You can roll up your sleeves when necessary
• Strong relationship management and executive presentation skills
• Possess an understanding of data modeling techniques, warehouses, and event streams
• Ability to translate complex analysis into insights that are accessible to non-technical stakeholders, and prioritize work based on highest business impact vs technical complexity

Nice to Haves

• User Acquisition Pipeline Experience in a D2C App Setting
• Experience working in Healthcare Analytics

Calm uses a geographic pay model that determines salaries based on the location where an employee lives. For this position, the base pay ranges across