Senior Data Scientist
About The Position
Roku is looking for a Sr. Data scientist to join the Core Analytics team supporting recommendations and personalization products. In this role, you will leverage data analytics to support and improve our recommendations and personalization initiatives, identifying trends, mitigating risks, and providing actionable insights. You will work closely with product management and engineering to identify opportunities to create new features, drive their adoption, and generate value for Roku. This individual will investigate and develop solutions to track, monitor and improve our ecosystem. The successful candidate is quantitatively driven, detail-focused, and possesses an elevated level of 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
Benefits
- This role is eligible for health insurance, equity awards, life insurance, disability benefits, parental leave, wellness benefits, and paid time off.
- Roku is committed to offering a diverse range of benefits as part of our compensation package to support our employees and their families.
- Our comprehensive benefits include global access to mental health and financial wellness support and resources.
- Local benefits include statutory and voluntary benefits which may include healthcare (medical, dental, and vision), life, accident, disability, commuter, and retirement options (401(k)/pension).
- Our employees can take time off work for vacation and other personal reasons to balance their evolving work and life needs.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
