Principal Data Analyst (Search Product)

Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States; Home Office

Salary: $117,000–$234,000 per year, plus performance-based bonuses and possible stock compensation.

Company

hirify.global supports Walmart's eCommerce and retail ecosystem through product, data, engineering, and advertising capabilities.

What you will do

• Lead analytics across the end-to-end Search product experience, including query understanding, retrieval, ranking, personalization, and UI/UX.
• Define and evolve search health metrics covering customer experience, relevance, and business impact.
• Conduct deep-dive analyses and opportunity sizing to identify high-impact product improvements.
• Design, execute, and interpret A/B, multivariate, Bayesian, and quasi-experiments.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Data Science, and Design to optimize search performance and customer outcomes.
• Build scalable analytical frameworks and communicate recommendations that shape product strategy.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in data analysis, data science, statistics, product analytics, business analytics, or a related quantitative field, or the stated equivalent degree-and-experience combinations.
• Strong SQL and Python skills, with experience analyzing large-scale behavioral, transactional, or event-level datasets.
• Deep experience with experimentation, including metric selection, test design, statistical interpretation, guardrails, segmentation, and launch recommendations.
• Strong product judgment and the ability to connect customer behavior with business impact.
• Experience structuring ambiguous, high-impact analytical problems and influencing senior stakeholders through clear narratives, dashboards, and metric readouts.
• Work location: Sunnyvale, California, United States.

Nice to have

• Experience in eCommerce, marketplaces, search, recommendations, advertising, retail, merchandising, healthcare, or other consumer product experiences.
• Experience with Spark, Scala, R, Power BI, Tableau, or related data analysis and business intelligence tools.
• Master's degree in a relevant quantitative, business, engineering, or computer science field.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
• 401(k), stock purchase opportunities, and company-paid life insurance.
• Paid time off, sick leave, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement leave, jury duty, and voting leave.
• Short- and long-term disability coverage, company discounts, military leave pay, and adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement.
• Live Better U provides Walmart-paid education programs, including degree completion, English Language Learning, and certificates.