Sr. Data Scientist

About the Role

Roku pioneered streaming to the TV and continues to innovate and lead the industry. While we are well-positioned to help shape the future of television – including TV advertising – around the world, continued success relies on its growth through strategic data insights.

At Roku, Senior Data Scientists leverage Big Data to generate insights that fuel Roku’s most significant business decisions. Senior Data Scientists use a combination of technical skills, business intuition, and analytical thinking to partner with business leaders and provide actionable recommendations. Senior Data Scientists at Roku are thought partners to executive business leaders, so communication and presentation are enormously important. Senior Data Scientists do not just take direction from business owners and execute on ad-hoc questions, they proactively identify the areas of the data and business that require attention and formulate analyses, insights, and recommendations based on an excellent command of the needs. The Senior Data Scientists role at Roku is a perfect fit for anyone who wants to continue to evolve business domain expertise alongside technical and analytical development. You would be collaborating with data engineers, leadership and business stakeholders to unearth the unknowns from the data. The successful candidate will display a balance of hard and soft skills, including the ability to respond quickly to changing business needs. The Senior Data Scientist in this role will work closely with stakeholders to identify and evaluate opportunities for improving the discovery of content on the Roku UI through A/B testing, segmentation, reporting, and behavior analysis. 

For California Only - The estimated annual salary for this position is between $93,000 and $250,000 annually.
Compensation packages are based on factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, certifications, and specific geographical location.
This role is eligible for health insurance, equity awards, life insurance, disability benefits, parental leave, wellness benefits, and paid time off.

What you'll be doing

• Use Roku’s Big Data to perform thorough analysis on User behavior through A/B testing
• Develop User segmentations to understand different types of user behavior across the Roku Platform
• Develop data visualizations that illustrate complex platform phenomena using Looker, etc.
• Partner with leadership, engineers, business stakeholders and data engineers to understand data needs
• Deliver presentations to clearly and effectively communicate findings to stakeholders
• Develop automated reports and pipelines that allow business to make decisions quickly and effectively
• Ability to translate complex data sets and research into simple business recommendations

We're excited if you have

• A bachelors degree and 5+ years of advanced analytics experience or a Masters/Ph.D. with 3+ years of experience
• Excellent command of SQL and experience working with Big Data
• Experience coding in R or Python
• Experience with data visualization platform like Tableau, Looker, etc
• Statistics knowledge: A/B testing, statistical inference, interpretation of data, etc.
• Strong communication skills
• Ownership mindset, you own end to end lifecycle of a product starting from ideation, rollout to post-launch performance tracking
• Academic background in math, physics, computer science, economics
• Highly independent and able to manage relationships with stakeholders
• Experience in data management, analytics, data science and reporting

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