Senior Data Scientist - Product Analytics

Join the VRChat Team!

VRChat offers a first-of-its-kind, game-changing platform that provides an endless collection of social VR experiences and gives the power of creation to its robust community. With over 250,000 worlds and growing, VRChat’s vision is to allow users to bring their imaginations to life and help shape the metaverse anywhere in the world on any device. VRChat has raised around $100M to date with the support of our investors, which include: Makers Fund, Anthos Capital and HTC. We have a great team which includes people from: Netflix, Twitter, Meta, Microsoft, Roblox, Google, Amazon, Unity, Spotify, Discord, Uber, eBay, Robinhood, Twitch, Zynga and TikTok. 

Come and join the mission!

Job Overview

As a Senior Data Scientist on VRChat’s Data Team, you will play a key role in driving strategic product decisions and advancing our product roadmap across growth, user experience, creator, and economy verticals. The ideal candidate will have a background in a technical field, will have experience working with large production data sets, and will have some experience delivering data products on a fast-paced team. 

This position will be full-time and remote.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Partner with Product, Engineering, Design, and Marketing teams to scope, design, execute, measure, and improve the impact of product features and campaigns

• Conduct quantitative analysis, deliver insights, and influence product decision making through an understanding of user behavior and our platform ecosystem

• Design and monitor core metrics; perform root cause analysis to explain drivers

• Identify trends and opportunities to drive growth, retention, and monetization initiatives

• Create a healthy ecosystem for content creators, users, and consumers

• Design and analyze experiments to inform and influence product investments

• Acquire new data from various production systems and databases

Experience, Skills, and Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in data science, data analytics, product analytics, or quantitative analysis

• Expert background in utilizing SQL/Python to extract, manipulate, and analyze datasets

• Work cross functionally to translate business problems into ones that can be solved and informed by experimentation and data analysis

• Experience with creating data visualizations to communicate metric performance

• Develop models of usage, user behavior & business behavior to make recommendations and influence the product roadmap

• Conduct A/B testing - design, execute, and analyze experiments to understand impact of product feature deployments and changes

• Ability to effectively communicate complex analyses and insights to non-technical audiences

Bonus Points

• Previous experience in data science, data analytics, or product analytics at a social or gaming company

• Have curiosity and apply analytical skills to dive deep into data to find key insights that impact the business

• Experience in stakeholder management, relationship building, and influencing senior audiences

• Adaptability, tendency toward simple, creative solutions, and ability to effectively prioritize work in a demanding and changing environment

Benefits

• Work from anywhere! VRChat is a 100% remote company

• Health Benefits

• 401K for US & RRSP for Canadian Employees

• Stock Options

• Generous paid holiday schedule

• Unlimited/Flexible vacation time

• Paid parental leave benefits 

VRChat is an equal-opportunity employer, and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. VRChat fosters a diverse, creative, and collaborative environment where anyone can contribute to any of the ongoing projects or direction of the roadmap at any time. If you’re a passionate team player who wants to have an impact on a dynamic team, we’d love to hear from you!

All job offers are subject to satisfactory referencing and background checks.