Senior Data Scientist, Roku
$179.9-212.3k
Monday - Thursday in office
4 days a week in office (San Jose, CA)
Convenient and affordable TV streaming players
Posted today
Convenient and affordable TV streaming players
1001+ employees
Posted today
$179.9-212.3k
Monday - Thursday in office
4 days a week in office (San Jose, 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 ideal candidate will have endless curiosity and can pair a global mindset with locally relevant execution. You should be a gritty problem solver and self-starter who can help drive initiatives with internal stakeholders.
- The successful candidate will display a balance of hard and soft skills, including the ability to respond quickly to changing business needs
- 5+ years of relevant experience in data analytics, data science or business intelligence role. Previous experience in product analytics is preferred
- Excellent command of SQL and experience working with Big Data
- Experience coding in Python or R
- Hands-on experience with data visualization platform like Tableau, Looker, or similar
- Statistics knowledge like A/B experimentation and statistical inference
- Innate drive towards action in resolving issues and operate in a high-energy, fast-paced environment
- Self-driven, highly motivated, and independent-minded individual who has a natural curiosity for understanding the data and the business
- Strong communication skills. Composes and communicates materials and information that is clear, concise, and appropriate to the intended audience
- Excellent investigative skills with a passion for finding the root cause of an issue
- The ability to work independently and across multiple time zones
- Ownership mindset. You own the end-to-end lifecycle of a product, starting from ideation and ending with post-launch performance tracking
- Academic background in mathematics, statistics, physics, data science, computer science, or economics
What the job involves
- Roku is looking for a Senior Data scientist to join the Core Analytics team supporting the Roku TV team.
- As a Senior Data Scientist, you will bring strong technical experience retrieving, manipulating, analyzing, and visualizing data. Just as importantly, you will bring excellent communication skills, proven collaboration track record, and business acumen
- Develop and maintain dashboards, reports, and data visualizations to monitor key metrics for device hardware and software health
- Analyze structured and unstructured data and communicate insights to help stakeholders solve business problems, identify trends and make data-driven decisions
- Develop data visualizations that illustrate complex platform phenomena using Looker, Tableau, and other visualization platforms
- Develop necessary data pipelines to power automation, validation and reporting
- Use creativity to find proxies where verbatim data or measurement is unavailable
- Collaborate with stakeholders to align data science initiatives with organizational goals and strategy
- Design and execute A/B tests to enhance the streaming experience for customers
- Stay updated with the latest trends and technologies in data science, including the use of artificial intelligence, to drive innovation
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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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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