Sr. Data Scientist, Forward-Deployed
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Key details
Why this role is notable
A predictive-analytics vendor is staffing data scientists as 'forward deployed' engineers who sit with customers and build bespoke models, suggesting that selling ML-driven account intelligence now requires hands-on, embedded implementation work rather than software alone.
Job Description
Our Mission:
6sense's mission is to multiply what matters: growth, retention, and efficiency. We envision a future where companies, teams and people reach their full potential.
Our People:
People are the heart and soul of 6sense. We serve with passion and purpose. We live by our Being 6sense values of Win as One Team, Stay Curious, Do The Right Thing, Own the Outcome, and Create Belonging. Every 6sensor plays a part in defining the future of our industry-leading technology. 6sense is a place where difference-makers roll up their sleeves, take risks, act with integrity, and measure success by the value we create for our customers. We want 6sense to be the best chapter of your career.
Data Scientist, Forward Deployed (Impact & Analytics)
Forward Deployed Engineering · Predictive track
TEAM
Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE), Predictive track, in Data Science & AI Engineering
REPORTS TO
Director of Data Science
LEVEL
Sr. (5+ years) — measures engagement impact and works on customer models
LOCATION
United States
About 6sense
Our mission. 6sense's mission is to multiply what matters: growth, retention, and efficiency. We envision a future where companies, teams and people reach their full potential.
Our people. People are the heart and soul of 6sense. We serve with passion and purpose. We live by our Being 6sense values of Win as One Team, Stay Curious, Do The Right Thing, Own the Outcome, and Create Belonging. Every 6sensor plays a part in defining the future of our industry-leading technology. 6sense is a place where difference-makers roll up their sleeves, take risks, act with integrity, and measure success by the value we create for our customers. We want 6sense to be the best chapter of your career.
6sense is Intelligence for Agentic GTM. We turn every signal — yours and ours — into intelligence that every team, tool, and AI agent can act on and trust. Every day, the 6sense Signalverse™ captures one trillion signals to power AI that pinpoints who's ready to buy, how to engage them, and when to act. 6sense was named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Revenue Marketing Platforms for B2B, Q1 2026.
THE ROLE IN ONE PARAGRAPH
We're hiring a Sr. Data Scientist to show the impact our work has for customers. You'll measure how each engagement moves customers' pipeline and renewals, build the value analysis customers and leadership rely on, and work hands-on with the senior data scientists on customer models.
This role sits where analytics meets modeling. It suits someone who wants to see the business outcome of their work and grow into a forward-deployed data scientist.
What You'll Do
Build for the customer
- Set a baseline for every engagement before work starts, then track the results: account health, renewal outcome, and how predictive scores perform for the customer's sales team.
- Measure how scored accounts perform against unscored ones: close rate, sales cycle length and deal size.
- Assess the impact of model and configuration changes on model performance, qualified-account volume and pipeline timing.
- Run before-and-after and holdout-style analyses that separate a change's real effect from noise.
- Work on live engagements with the senior data scientists: validate account lists, compare a customer's CRM fields with 6sense firmographic data, and help tailor and tune models.
Productize for everyone
- Build value analysis Data Science can run for any customer on demand, such as qualified-account efficiency, deal journeys and conversion by score bucket.
- Build the dashboards and reporting the team, Customer Success and leadership use to follow engagement outcomes.
What You'll Bring
- Required: 5+ years in data science or advanced analytics, with experience building models and measuring business outcomes.
- Strong SQL and Python, and experience turning messy data into analysis people trust, including matching records across systems by ID.
- Solid grounding in statistics and experiment design: baselines, control groups, and knowing when a difference is real.
- Experience building dashboards or reporting for business stakeholders.
- Clear communicator who can explain what the numbers mean, and what they don't.
- Comfortable switching between several projects at once.
- Nice to have: B2B go-to-market or SaaS customer data (CRM, renewals, pipeline, customer health); a customer-facing, consulting or analytics-for-clients role; BI tools such as Tableau; data platforms such as SingleStore, Snowflake or Hive.
What Success Looks Like
- In 3 months: every active engagement has a documented baseline and an agreed success measure.
- In 6 months: leadership reviews engagement results from reporting you built, and you've contributed to at least one customer model.
- In 12 months: the team can show the business value of its work across all engagements, and you're leading data science work on engagements of your own.
Why this role is different: you see the business outcome of the work directly, and you're the one who shows customers and leadership what it's worth. It's also a direct path into forward-deployed data science.
Base Salary Range: $168,349.50 - $230,912.60. The base salary range represents the anticipated low and high end of the base salary range for this position. Actual salaries may vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors, including but not limited to work location and experience. The base salary is one component of 6sense’s total compensation package for this position. Other compensation may include a bonus program or commission plan, and stock options if approved by 6sense’s board. In addition, 6sense provides a variety of benefits, including generous health insurance coverage, life, and disability insurance, a 401K employer matching program, paid holidays, self-care days, and paid time off (PTO). #Li-remote
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Our Benefits:
Full-time employees can take advantage of health coverage, paid parental leave, generous paid time-off and holidays, quarterly self-care days off, and stock options. We’ll make sure you have the equipment and support you need to work and connect with your teams, at home or in one of our offices.
We have a growth mindset culture that is represented in all that we do, from onboarding through to numerous learning and development initiatives including access to our LinkedIn Learning platform. Employee well-being is also top of mind for us. We host quarterly wellness education sessions to encourage self care and personal growth. From wellness days to ERG-hosted events, we celebrate and energize all 6sense employees and their backgrounds.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
6sense is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employers. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to jobs@6sense.com.
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