Data Scientist, VRChat
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Virtual world platform
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Virtual world platform
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
+ Stock options
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To build VRChat into one of the most successful community-driven social VR platforms in existence.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant field
- 5+ years of relevant experience at high-growth companies
- Demonstrated interest in and understanding of VR and online communities
- A well-versed storyteller with excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Experience using event-based data to derive actionable insights
- Strong knowledge of SQL and experience with large structured and unstructured datasets
- Familiarity with cloud-based databases and data warehouse solutions (e.g. Snowflake, Redshift, MongoDB)
- Experience with SAAS Product analytics tools (e.g. Amplitude, Google Analytics, Heap, Mixpanel)
- Proficiency in data visualization tools (e.g. Tableau, PowerBI, Excel, Matplotlib, Seaborn)
- Ability to communicate and collaborate across all functional teams and contribute to product design, development, and go-to-market strategy
- Experience working in a fast-paced environment that required balancing competing priorities throughout the entire product lifecycle
- Highly-organized and effectively able to hit deliverable deadlines with high-quality output and outcomes
- Experience working with large quantities of data and utilizing it to make informed and strategic decisions
- Self-starter with an independent drive that can successfully follow through on initiatives
- Ability to act fast and adapt to quickly changing situations
- Professionalism and integrity
Desirable
- Experience in social platforms or social gaming
- A basic level of understanding of Unity 3D
What the job involves
- We’re looking for someone to join VRChat’s Data team as a Data Scientist to continue to improve and transform our expanding platform
- In this role, you will tackle unique challenges on the frontier of multiverse experiences by bridging our product development and marketing efforts
- You will work within our analytics stack to monitor, analyze, and find trends in user behavior to help ideate, test, and deploy new product features and user experiences to better the experience for our users
- You will work closely with product, operations, and policy teams to identify areas of strategic growth, devise plans on how to capitalize on those opportunities and help execute
- Your ultimate goal as part of the data team will be to enable the entire VRChat team and worldwide community to craft incredible immersive social experiences
- Analyze large, complex datasets to derive actionable insights and findings
- Utilize statistical analysis, data mining, and data visualization techniques to understand product performance, customer behavior, and market trends
- Work closely with engineering, design, marketing, and sales teams to ensure alignment of data science activities with broader company goals
- Design dashboards to allow real-time access to KPIs against established objectives across the organization
- Gain a deep understanding of VRChat users and their cohort-based journeys and psychology to most effectively drive active user scale and loyalty
- Work with product teams to design and analyze A/B tests to evaluate the impact of changes in the product, interpreting the results and providing insights to guide future product developments
- Ensure compliance with data privacy regulations and ethical standards in data handling, prioritizing user privacy and data security
Our take
Virtual Reality is one of the technologies with the highest projected potential for growth. VRChat offers a free-to-play metaverse platform where users gather as avatars in virtual spaces to socialize and hang out, just as one would in real life.
Whilst competitor Rec Room has a greater valuation, VRChat has positioned itself as the leading VR socializing-based product. It taps into a modern desire to form connections in digital spaces, with some users meeting their real-life partners in their virtual avatar form. When contemplating VR’s popularity, it cannot be denied that virtual realities enable freedom of self-expression, an attractive proposition perhaps for those who struggle with their identity and place in the real world.
The company recently announced a 30% workforce reduction, addressing overhiring during its 2021 boom. Despite these layoffs, the company remains focused on long-term growth and capital efficiency, positioning itself for continued success as VR becomes a key part of social connection.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2021
$80m
SERIES D
Sep 2019
$10m
SERIES C
Total funding: $95.2m
Company benefits
- Work remotely: Work from anywhere! They use collaboration software to stay organized and VRChat for meetings and hanging out.
- Health and wellbeing: Medical, Dental and Vision plans for those in the United States, and extended health plans in British Columbia, Canada.
- Fun: Monthly team dinners, get-togethers and once a year, they travel somewhere fun for a few days to hang out, catch up, brainstorm and have fun.
- Tools: You’ll be provided a powerful PC, high-end VR hardware, and any software you need to make you effective in your role.
- Vacations: Flexible vacation schedules that are encouraged. Most United States and Canadian holidays are observed by everyone on the team.
- Swag: Great VRChat and Developer Team Swag such as hoodies, coffee mugs, t-shirts, sun glasses and even custom 3D printed goodies.
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Graham Gaylor
(Co-Founder & CEO)Interned at SmartVault, RSM Design, Equivalent DATA, and Seismic Exchange, before spending time at ChaiONE as an iOS Developer at at Zynga as a Software Engineer.
Jesse Joudrey
(Co-Founder & CTO)Owner and CTO at Jespionage Entertainment. Began as a Software Engineer for Electronic Arts Canada before co-founding and serving as CTO for A.C.R.O.N.Y.M Games Inc.
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