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Staff / Principal Product Data Scientist - Slack

Slack

Location

San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Atlanta, GA, Seattle, WA

Type

Full-time

Posted

9/18/2026

Compensation

$172,500 - $344,700 per year

Undergraduate with 5+ Years of Experience
H-1B FY202697.2% approval+26% YoY
👑 Elite sponsor

Job description

Salesforce is seeking Staff & Principal Product Data Scientists to enhance its data ecosystem at Slack. The role focuses on collaborating with cross-functional teams to define product strategies and derive actionable insights. Candidates will play a key role in designing Slack's data delivery platform, enabling data self-serve capabilities. The ideal candidate will thrive in a diverse, collaborative environment and contribute to product development and decision-making.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in product data science in related tech industries.
  • A consistent record of using data to drive product teams to achieve ambitious goals and influence company-level outcomes.
  • Advanced proficiency in SQL and at least one programming language for data science, such as Python, R, or Scala.
  • Strong foundation in statistics, experimentation, causal inference, ML, and analytical problem-solving.
  • Experience working with large-scale data technologies such as Spark, Presto, Hive, Hadoop, or similar distributed data platforms.
  • Proven ability to communicate complex analytical findings clearly to executive and cross-functional audiences.
  • A related degree required, with a BS degree in a quantitative field being essential and an advanced degree (MS, PhD) being a strong plus.

Responsibilities

  • Establish strong partnerships with product stakeholders to identify opportunities, prioritize roadmaps, and implement execution excellence.
  • Evangelize evidence-based decision-making by partnering with key leaders and driving the general accessibility of data and insights.
  • Perform evidence-based evaluations of the most important drivers for increased adoption of Slack product capabilities.
  • Build key success metric frameworks and self-serve reporting to monitor Slack product health.
  • Prototype foundational data models and partner with Data Engineering functions to elevate these into canonical sources of truth.
  • Contribute to the design and implementation of Slack's agentic data delivery platform.
  • Quantitatively identify potential product opportunities to improve user experiences and unlock business value.
  • Partner closely with Product Researchers to align roadmaps and collaborate on projects to answer complex questions.

Benefits

  • Employees at Slack, as part of Salesforce, are often offered comprehensive benefits focused on wellbeing and inclusion, including competitive health-care coverage, time off to rest, recharge and volunteer, and holistic programs that support mental health, family planning and overall work–life balance.

H-1B filing history

Public USCIS petition and DOL LCA counts · latest USCIS FY2026, LCA FY2026

Filing entity: Salesforce Inc

As of Aug 23, 2026

Initial approvals

169

FY2026

Approval rate

97.2%

FY2026

LCA certified

1,585

FY2026

Entry-level share

0.2%

FY2026

Initial approvals YoY

+26%

Trend

LCA certified YoY

-21%

Trend

Initial approvals by fiscal year

Approval rate by fiscal year

Continuing vs initial approvals

LCA certified positions by quarter

LCA certified positions by fiscal year

Based on public USCIS and DOL filings; not a sponsorship guarantee.

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