Forward Deployed Data Scientist
San Francisco Bay Area
Sundial is a top VC-backed early-stage startup headquartered at San Francisco Bay Area, US with a second office in Bengaluru, India. Our founders are industry veterans Chandra Narayanan, previously Chief Data Scientist at Sequoia Capital, and Julie Zhuo, previously VP, Design and Research at Facebook, author of a bestselling management book. We are a small team of top talent, high caliber Engineers, Data Scientists, Designers and PMs and rapidly growing.
We are on a mission to help builders make meaningful use of data to fulfill their vision. Sundial automatically diagnoses a product's data to explain the "what" and the "why" to enable faster and better decision making.
Pull up a chair! We're excited to tell you about our vision for Sundial!
By now, you've probably visited our website and maybe our LinkedIn page and browsed around the profiles of our team members. If you haven't yet, please take a moment to do so. We'll wait.
Okay, now you know at a high level that we are focused on data storytelling. The data space has over $100B in market opportunity ahead of it, and modern Business Intelligence tools are growing at over 15% year over year.
Currently most data-centric organizations have a large team that builds dashboards and manually generates reports to communicate the product story broadly. But a large part of this process can be easily productized. We do this by leveraging decades of our founders’ experience in helping organizations understand their product metrics into easily accessible and actionable stories that are automatically generated. The core part of this effort is building Sundial’s library of analytical insights and packaging them together to form analysis templates.
As a Sundial Forward Deployed Data Scientist, you will...
Work directly with clients to understand their product, growth, and analytics challenges, translating them into Sundial-powered solutions.
Envision, design, and build reusable analysis templates (e.g., funnels, retention, user growth, churn diagnostics).
Code up advanced analyses in Python/SQL that power these templates.
Partner with PMs, designers, and engineers to translate data into clear, compelling product stories that scale across customers.
Embed yourself with customers and act as the bridge between customers and product, bringing back insights from the field that shape Sundial’s roadmap.
You will have...
Strong background in analytics and data science, with fluency in Python (Pandas) and SQL.
Experience writing production-grade code (Python, Golang, Java, or similar) and working with GitHub or equivalent tools.
The ability to weave data into clear narratives for both technical and business audiences.
Comfort and experience working directly with clients — gathering requirements, guiding analysis, and shaping solutions.
Sundial is a good fit for you if...
You love the ownership and learning of a startup. Things move quickly, hats are many, and the impact of your work is immediate.
You’re a learner with a growth mindset. Slope > intercept. We share knowledge, teach each other, and reflect on our growth.
You’re fascinated by how companies grow and how data drives strategy. You’ll become an expert in the mechanics of growth and value creation.
You’re energized by solving data problems and crafting stories. Insights only matter if they can be understood, acted upon, and trusted.
This role is ideal if you want to sit at the intersection of analytics, data science, strategy and customer success — solving client problems in the field while helping us build the product backbone that scales those solutions to everyone.
Interested? We’d love to hear from you!
