You will partner with investors and founders on high-stakes decisions, bringing a quantitative approach to venture capital. By leading end-to-end analytical diligence on potential investments and running deep-dive engagements for portfolio companies, you will use rigorous data analysis to form investment conviction and accelerate growth outcomes for world-class consumer startups.
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Deals Data Scientist at Goodwater Capital
Are you a Senior Data Scientist looking to move beyond tuning minor features? This rare role within a leading consumer-focused venture capital firm puts you at the center of the startup ecosystem. You will lead deep-data diligence for multi-million dollar investments and act as a strategic advisor to portfolio founders. Instead of optimizing a single product, you'll develop elite pattern recognition by analyzing dozens of the world's most exciting companies across AI, fintech, and health. If you want to build the future of data-driven investing while working directly with top-tier partners and founders in the Bay Area, this is your launchpad.
About this role
Role overview
About the company
Goodwater Capital
Goodwater Capital is a venture capital firm focused exclusively on consumer technology, prosumer, and SMB. The firm invests in Series A through growth-stage consumer tech startups around the world, backing entrepreneurs building products and services in fintech, healthcare, education, entertainment, workplace, and more.
What you'll do
What you will do
- Lead deep analytical diligence on potential investments to translate complex product questions into concrete, data-driven narratives.
- Conduct 1-4 week post-investment engagements with portfolio companies to solve existential growth and retention challenges.
- Prototype and build new internal data products and analytical frameworks to modernize how the firm evaluates the consumer startup ecosystem.
Who you are
Who this is a fit for
- Senior-level experience independently scoping and executing complex analyses in high-stakes, ambiguous environments like startups or growth teams.
- Strong technical proficiency in Python and SQL combined with sharp product intuition regarding user behavior and growth drivers.
- Exceptional communication skills with the ability to defend data-driven opinions to founders, partners, and board members in person.
Why this role
Why this role is remarkable
- Massive learning velocity through analyzing dozens of companies annually across fintech, AI, healthcare, and education sectors.
- Direct C-level access and mentorship from partners who are former board members and senior operators at world-class organizations.
- High-impact ownership where your analytical insights directly influence multi-million dollar investment decisions and the existential strategy of portfolio founders.
Jack & Jill
How Jack & Jill work together
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I recruit from Jack’s network and make the intro when I spot a great match.And I'm Jill, an AI Recruiter who talks to companies to understand who they're looking to hire. Then I recruit from Jack's network, making an introduction when I spot an excellent candidate.
Meet Jack
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