Senior Data Scientist

Roku•San Jose, CA

9h•Hybrid

About The Position

Roku is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join the Core Analytics team, focusing on recommendations and personalization products. This role involves leveraging data analytics to support and enhance recommendations and personalization initiatives, identifying trends, mitigating risks, and delivering actionable insights. The Senior Data Scientist will collaborate closely with product management and engineering to pinpoint opportunities for new feature creation, drive their adoption, and generate value for Roku. The individual will also be responsible for investigating and developing solutions to track, monitor, and improve the Roku ecosystem. The ideal candidate is quantitatively driven, detail-oriented, and possesses strong problem-solving expertise.

Requirements

5+ years of work experience with a bachelor's degree or master's degree in quantitative field (e.g., Statistics, Business Analytics, Data Science, Mathematics, Economics, Engineering or Computer Science)
5+ years of experience across consumer product, digital media or entertainment industries
Expertise in SQL, SAS, R, Python or other programming language to query data and perform analysis
Hands on experience with visualization tools like Tableau or Looker
Have a bias towards action in resolving issues and operate in a high-energy, fast-paced environment
Hands on experience in A/B testing and statistical modeling/forecasting

Responsibilities

Collaborate with stakeholders to align data science initiatives with organizational goals and strategy design and execute AB tests
Translate complex analyses into clear executive narratives and dashboards, driving consensus on priorities and accelerating delivery across the board
Develop and maintain dashboards, reports, and data visualizations to monitor key metrics for operational and systems health
Analyze structured and unstructured data and communicate insights to help stakeholders solve business problems, identify trends and make data-driven decisions
Develop necessary data pipelines to power automation, validation and reporting
Develop analytical tools (real-time alerts, models, etc.) to understand what drives success for our mobile platform
Perform exploratory data analysis on emerging trends and execute advanced analysis across the Roku Platform
Collaborate with the Program Management and Engineering team to proactively seek and incorporate feedback
Providing feedback directly to leadership on performance of various initiatives and untapped opportunities