The opportunity
The Proactive Insights team is a newly formed team at the center of Mixpanel's AI-first analytics vision. With a greenfield charter, we're building the intelligent layer that transforms Mixpanel from a tool you query into a partner that works for you.
What you'll do
Own the end-to-end analytical design for Signals, Forecasting, Simulation,: and Cohort Detection — including methodology selection, statistical validation, and iteration based on results
Assess data quality and trust prerequisites before extending forecasting or: predictive features to customers — a model is only as trustworthy as the data feeding it
Design and apply causal inference methods to move beyond correlation and: establish which user behaviors genuinely drive downstream business outcomes
Build and own time-series forecasting models that project KPI trajectories: against goals — extending our existing use of TimesFM into customer-facing forecasting features
Build survival analysis and retention models that underpin Signals and Simulation outputs
Develop clustering and behavioral similarity approaches for Cohort Detection: that are both statistically sound and interpretable to end users
What they're looking for
- Document methodology clearly: including assumptions, validation approaches, and expected output behavior — so engineers can implement reliably without ambiguity
- Review and validate that production results match expected statistical: behavior, partnering with engineers on edge cases and anomalies
- Establish rigor around statistical significance, multiple testing correction,: and uncertainty quantification so customers can trust what they see
- Work cross-functionally with internal stakeholders, including Finance and: Data Science, to ensure analytical outputs are grounded in real business outcomes
