Senior Data Scientist, Twitch

• 6+ years of domain experience in a consumer internet business or high-velocity, high-growth product/business unit, demonstrating progressive responsibility
• Expert SQL skills with proven ability to leverage complex data pipelines for actionable insights and drive significant business results
• Advanced proficiency in data analysis techniques, including time series analysis, A/B testing, data visualization, and KPI strategy development for business optimization
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with a talent for translating complex data into clear, actionable recommendations
• Strong business acumen and strategic thinking, with proven ability to prioritize effectively and adapt quickly in fast-paced environments
• Track record of building and maintaining strong relationships across teams while mentoring others and establishing best practices
• Demonstrated leadership in spearheading large-scale projects that require both extensive business knowledge and technical expertise
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Science, Data Science, Business Analytics, or related discipline)
• Experience mentoring team members and driving the creation of best practices within the organization

Desirable

• Platforms & Services is responsible for the central services and systems that empower both Twitch users directly as well as the product engineers across Twitch who build experiences for them.
• You will be part of a team of data scientists who focus on providing deep product and user insights that drive engineering roadmaps, priorities, and investments.
• You will partner closely with product managers, engineering leaders, and engineers to build deep product expertise and will become a critical voice in the development and delivery of some of Twitch’s most critical central services
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and operations teams to design durable systems that support all of Twitch
• Tackle ambiguous, high-impact problems by defining analytical approaches grounded in statistics, computer science, and deep domain expertise—driving clarity, innovation, and durable solutions at scale
• Become a key thought partner in shaping builder experiences, providing data-backed insights to support higher-quality and more efficient experiences for builders across Twitch
• Foster a culture of analytical rigor, clear communication, and shared accountability for impact across cross-functional teams
• Maintain a customer-centric focus while being a domain and product expert through data, develop trust amongst peers and stakeholders, and ensure that the teams and programs are empowered and enabled to take data-driven actions
• Prioritize and execute in the face of ambiguity, work with stakeholders and mentors to distill the problem, adapt tools to answer complicated questions, and identify the trade-offs between speed and quality of different approaches
• Create analytical frameworks to measure team success by partnering with cross-functional teams to define success metrics, create approaches to track the data and troubleshoot errors, quantify and evaluate the data to develop a common language for all colleagues to understand these metrics and KPIs
• Operationalize data processes in order to provide stakeholders with ad-hoc analysis, automated dashboards, and self-service reporting tools so that everyone gets a good sense of the state of the business