Research Data Scientist, Roku
$132-254k
+ Equity awards
More information about location
4 days a week in office
Convenient and affordable TV streaming players
Be an early applicant
Convenient and affordable TV streaming players
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$132-254k
+ Equity awards
More information about location
4 days a week in office
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
- 2+ years of work experience with a PhD in a quantitative field (e.g., Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Data Science, etc.)
- OR 5+ years of equivalent practical experience with a master’s degree
- Deep knowledge of statistics, probability, and machine learning techniques
- Hands-on experience on experimental design, A/B testing, causal inference, and statistical modeling/forecasting
- Expertise in SQL, SAS, R, Python, or other programming languages 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 dynamic environment
- The ability to effectively communicate with technical and non-technical business partners alike, who are interested in building strong cross-functional relationships
- A desire to question the status quo and promote innovative solutions to challenging problems
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 looking for a Research Data Scientist to join the Core Analytics team to support our experimentation platform
- This individual will be responsible for helping to scale Roku’s experimentation capabilities, exploring and implementing scalable and robust statistical methods that can be applied to a broad range of experimentation problems
- The successful candidate will help build tooling for engineers, product managers, and marketers to self-serve their own experiments and establish experimentation best practices across Roku
- This individual will work closely with product management and data engineering, and a software engineer to identify opportunities to create new features, drive their adoption
- This individual will investigate and develop solutions to track, monitor, and improve our Experimentation ecosystem. The successful candidate is quantitatively driven, well-versed in experimentation and advanced statistical methods, detail-focused, and possesses an elevated level of problem-solving expertise
- Own the experimentation roadmap for Core Analytics in partnership with Product and Engineering
- Define the standard for statistical analysis across varying types of experiments and units of analysis, ensuring robust results with minimal bias
- Lead the design, implementation, and analysis of sophisticated A/B tests and experiments, leveraging innovative techniques like Bayesian inference and causal methods to optimize complex strategies
- Develop necessary data pipelines to power automation, validation, and reporting
- Collaborate with stakeholders to align data science initiatives with organizational goals and strategy
- Collaborate with the Product Management and Engineering team to proactively seek and incorporate feedback
Application process
- Roku will be accepting applications for this position until November 27, 2025 [or until the position filled]
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 in 2021. After successful collaborations with TCL and Hisense, the first in-house "Roku Television" was released in 2023, further exemplifying the streaming company's wider ambitions in the media sector.
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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
(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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