Data Scientist

As a Data Scientist and Business Intelligence Lead at OP Labs, you own the business analytics and reporting that inform the company's commercial and strategic decisions. You combine business judgment, crypto knowledge, and clear communication to explain performance and recommend action across a team building Optimism, a blockchain network powering the next generation of financial infrastructure.

What you'll do

• Own recurring business reporting by defining and maintaining metrics, dashboards, and business reviews that explain changes in revenue, customer activity, commercial pipeline, and ecosystem position.
• Partner with leadership, Business Development, Product, and Finance to identify and prioritize business questions, scope the analysis, and translate findings into decisions.
• Own analytical SQL, metric definitions, and data validation. Reconcile commercial and onchain sources, document discrepancies, and partner with engineering on production data infrastructure.
• Analyze customer segments, pipeline conversion, revenue concentration, retention, and performance drivers across OP Enterprise, OP Mainnet, and the Superchain. Test competing explanations and make uncertainty explicit.
• Produce concise memos, presentations, and dashboards that state the finding, supporting evidence, business implications, and recommended action.
• Evaluate crypto market and competitive developments, including adoption, liquidity, stablecoin activity, and fees, in the context of customer needs and business economics.
• Build pricing analyses, revenue scenarios, market assessments, and partnership business cases with explicit assumptions and sensitivities. Track results after decisions are made.
• Improve repeatable reporting and research workflows using SQL, BI tools, and AI-assisted analysis while remaining accountable for accuracy and source traceability.

What you bring

• 6+ years of experience in business analytics, business intelligence, strategy, management consulting, strategic finance, or a related analytical role.
• A relevant degree or equivalent practical experience. Management consulting experience, an MBA, or deep crypto industry knowledge are equally valued.
• Strong commercial judgment and experience building financial models and business cases that informed pricing, customer prioritization, partnerships, or resource allocation.
• Experience owning recurring reporting and analytical work across business functions, including agreeing metric definitions, reconciling sources, and resolving conflicting interpretations.
• Strong SQL, spreadsheet modeling, and data visualization skills, with the ability to inspect underlying data and validate results independently.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including concise executive recommendations, clear explanations of uncertainty, and constructive challenge with senior stakeholders.
• Demonstrated crypto knowledge: a working understanding of Ethereum, Layer 2s, stablecoins, DeFi, and crypto business models, with the ability to explain what onchain metrics do and do not establish.
• Ability to independently identify and scope ambiguous business questions, prioritize work, manage stakeholders, and follow recommendations through to measurable results.
• Experience using AI tools to accelerate analysis and reporting while checking source data, calculations, and conclusions.

Nice to have

• Python for analysis and automation.

What we offer

• Health insurance fully covered, including medical, dental, and vision plans.
• 401(k) with a 4% company match.
• $2,000 annual wellness stipend.
• $1,000 work-from-home setup stipend and $1,000 learning budget.
• Competitive compensation, including performance bonus and token grants.
• Flexible time off with no fixed allotment.
• 14 paid holidays plus two Collective Pause weeks each year (the first week of July and the week between Christmas and New Year).
• Four-week sabbatical after three years, with three weeks paid and equity and tokens vesting throughout.
• New York hybrid or location-flexible depending on team. Commercial and growth teams work from the SoHo office three days a week; engineering and technical roles are location-flexible.
• In-person team gatherings with travel budgets for remote teammates to join in New York and company-wide offsites twice a year.

About OP Labs

OP Labs builds Optimism, a blockchain network powering the next generation of financial infrastructure. Hundreds of companies, from enterprises like Sony, Coinbase, Kraken, Uniswap, OKX, and Bitpanda to early-stage builders, use the OP Stack to launch their own blockchains. Over 65% of Layer 2 activity on Ethereum runs through the OP Stack. The company has raised $178M from a16z, Paradigm, and others.