Lead Growth Data Scientist
FairSquare · San Diego, CA
$150,000–$170,000
Jul 15, 2026
San Diego, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor role focused on building and maintaining predictive models, recommendation systems, and analytical tools to support business decisions across areas such as marketing, credit risk, and sales. The work spans the full data science lifecycle — from wrangling disparate datasets and exploratory analysis through to model deployment, monitoring, and stakeholder consultation. Suits an experienced data scientist with a background in machine learning and statistical modeling who has also mentored others.
Senior level · 5+ years · San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA · Bachelor's required · Full-time
Pay in the description: $150,000–$170,000
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 100 people in the San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (data scientists). range 60–160
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $133,871 (middle half $95,474–$167,770). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The title says 'Lead Growth Data Scientist' but carries no explicit seniority level word (Junior/Senior/Staff/etc.), so advertised seniority is Unspecified; the 5+ years requirement, mentoring responsibility, and end-to-end model ownership support a Senior classification.
The role lists three possible office locations (San Diego CA, Atlanta GA, and Orlando FL); San Diego is listed first and is the company's apparent headquarters, so it is used as the primary CBSA. Hiring managers should note the role may be filled in any of the three metros.
Python and R are listed together as interchangeable fluency requirements ('R, Python, SQL'); Python is named as primary with R as an alternative.
AWS is explicitly called out as 'a plus' and FinTech/Credit experience is similarly framed — both treated as preferred.
Tableau and Salesforce are listed together under 'preferred,' so Tableau is the primary skill with Salesforce as an alternative.
The alt SOC (15-2031 Operations Research Analysts) is noted because the role spans both predictive modeling/ML (15-2051) and business-decision analytics/reporting; 15-2051 is the stronger fit given the explicit ML and recommendation-system requirements.
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