Senior Data Scientist
What research roles in crypto pay
36 salaries · our own dataThis role pays $182k-$191k, above the $143k median for research roles in crypto on this board.
As a Senior Data Scientist on the Consumer team at Coinbase, you'll improve the customer experience across Coinbase's consumer products including spot and advanced trading, yield, Coinbase One, international expansion, and new launches such as prediction markets and equities trading. You'll define key metrics, build measurement and causal frameworks, and translate insights directly into product strategy and shipped improvements. Data Science sits at the heart of how Coinbase builds products and makes decisions, partnering with Product, Engineering, and Design to shape roadmaps, understand users, and move the company's bottom line through rigorous experimentation, analytics, and advanced modeling.
What you'll do
- Drive analysis and deep dives on ambiguous business problems, delivering insights and recommendations that guide team decision-making
- Own a broad scope of data and metrics, from core logging to polished data visualizations
- Lead code reviews, contribute SQL and Python expertise, and maintain reliable ETL pipelines
- Uphold a high bar for statistical rigor, ensuring experimentation and causal analyses build genuine confidence with stakeholders
What you bring
- A BA/BS in a quantitative field such as Math, Stats, Physics, or CS with 5+ years of relevant experience, or a PhD with 3+ years of relevant experience
- A proven track record of delivering impactful data science work in ambiguous problem spaces
- The ability to synthesize complex data into compelling narratives that influence stakeholders
- Practical expertise applying advanced modeling frameworks to real business problems
- Professional proficiency in SQL and Python
- Experience working with digital products in an iterative development cycle
- Strong alignment with core values: clear communication, positive energy, continuous learning, and efficient execution
- Comfort using generative AI tools such as LibreChat, Gemini, and Glean responsibly in daily workflows, applying human-in-the-loop practices to drive measurable gains in quality and efficiency
What we offer
- Annual base salary of $181,545-$191,100 SGD, with total compensation also including equity and bonus eligibility
- Benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Quarterly in-person working sessions called "surges"
- Remote-first work arrangement
About Coinbase
Coinbase is on a mission to increase economic freedom. The company builds products and infrastructure for the crypto economy, serving consumers, institutions, and developers worldwide.
Context for this role
From the live jobs we track on CryptoJobsHQ, updated daily.
Coinbase has 174 open roles on CryptoJobsHQ: 50 in Engineering, 26 in Legal & Compliance and 21 in Finance. 86% are fully remote, most of the rest in the US and Canada. 27 were posted in the last 7 days. The median advertised base salary is $202k, from 106 listings that publish pay.
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