Senior Data Scientist, Roku
$169.9-190k
+ Equity
More information about location
4+ days a week in office (Santa Monica, CA)
Convenient & affordable TV streaming players
Be an early applicant
Convenient & affordable TV streaming players
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$169.9-190k
+ Equity
More information about location
4+ days a week in office (Santa Monica, CA)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide its users with a more convenient and cost effective way of watching the programs they love.
Role
Who you are
- The successful candidate brings a quantitatively driven mindset, strong attention to detail, and an elevated level of problem-solving expertise
- We're looking for curious, adaptable builders who can show how they've used AI or automation to move faster, raise the bar, and scale their impact
- We value your AI skills if you have built fluency across the agentic engineering toolchain — coding harnesses like Claude Code or Cursor, MCP servers, custom skills, or agent frameworks
- And you can describe projects where you shipped real work with these tools. You know how to drive an agent, verify its output, and ramp on an unfamiliar codebase with an agent helping you
- 4+ years of professional experience with a Bachelor's or Master's degree in a quantitative field such as Statistics, Business Analytics, Data Science, Mathematics, Economics, Engineering, or Computer Science
- 4+ years of experience in product analytics, with preference for experience supporting platforms in the media and entertainment space
- Proficiency in SQL, SAS, R, Python, or other programming languages for querying data and performing analysis
- Demonstrated ability to influence quantitatively meaningful business outcomes
- Hands-on experience with visualization tools such as Tableau or Looker
- Experience with A/B testing, statistical modeling, or forecasting
- Demonstrated ability to take initiative in resolving issues and thrive in a dynamic environment
- Experience using AI and Large Language Models to enhance productivity and analytical workflows
What the job involves
- The Core Analytics Team is a centralized function dedicated to providing data-driven insights to drive business and product success
- We work closely with our Product, Engineering, and Marketing teams to deliver exceptional experiences to our customers while maximizing the value proposition for the business
- Roku is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join the Core Analytics team supporting the Viewer Product team
- In this role, you will leverage data analytics to support and improve the Home screen and discovery products, influencing the look and feel of the most visible parts of the Roku platform while connecting users to the content they love
- You will identify trends and provide actionable insights to drive team efficiency and inform strategic decisions. Working closely with product management and engineering, you will 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 the broader ecosystem through dashboards, data pipelines, and analytical models
- Analyze structured and unstructured data and communicate insights to help stakeholders solve business problems, identify trends, and make data-driven decisions
- Advise on key product development strategy decisions to drive the Home screen and discovery products
- Develop and maintain dashboards, reports, and data visualizations to monitor key metrics for operational and systems health
- Develop data pipelines to power automation, validation, and reporting
- Collaborate with stakeholders to align data science initiatives with organizational goals and strategy
- Design and execute A/B tests to evaluate product changes and measure impact
- Perform exploratory data analysis on emerging trends and execute advanced analysis across the Roku platform
- Provide data-driven recommendations directly to leadership on performance of various initiatives and untapped opportunities
Our take
According to Nielsen data, the average streamer spends over seven minutes searching for something to watch. Streaming services use customers' viewing history to make suggestions, but these are limited to programs licensed for that particular service.
Roku provides an integrated streaming service that offers TV channels, movies and third-party streaming services, resulting in an all-in-one streaming platform. The service can be accessed through a variety of customized subscription packages and fees.
Roku stands out in the streaming industry by bringing many competitors together in one package. The startup provides further innovative services such as a weekly TV series named 'Roku Recommends' which uses first-party data to recommend essential viewing to users.
Alongside funding filmmakers through its "Change Makers Program", Roku also acquired its own original library of shows through its acquisition of now-defunct Quibi's library. Then, after successful collaborations with TCL and Hisense, the first in-house "Roku Television" was released. In 2026, it was announced that media giant FOX would acquire Roku, which the companies say will create the third largest player in US TV by share of viewing.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jan 2016
$45.5m
LATE VC
Nov 2015
$45.5m
SERIES H
Total funding: $247.8m
Company benefits
- Medical, wellness and financial benefits
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Free snacks and access to the company fitness center
Company HQ
Newhall, San Jose, CA
Leadership
Anthony Wood
(Founder & CEO)Studied Engineering at Texas A&M before founding their first company in 1986. They held VP roles at both Adobe and Netflix.
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