Senior Data Scientist, Roku
$157-187k
+ Equity
Convenient and affordable TV streaming players
Be an early applicant
Convenient and affordable TV streaming players
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$157-187k
+ Equity
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
- 5+ years of experience in data science or advanced analytics roles driving measurable business impact
- Demonstrated ownership of ambiguous, high-visibility analytical problems
- Experience building reusable measurement frameworks or scalable impact evaluation methodologies
- Strong proficiency in Excel, SQL and Python for data analysis and visualization
- Experience building reusable analytical code and productionizing workflows (e.g., Airflow or similar tools)
- Hands-on experience with Tableau or Looker for reporting
- Ability to communicate complex findings clearly to both technical and executive audiences
What the job involves
- End-to-end Advanced Analytics: lead the design, execution, and delivery of complex analyses, leveraging advanced analytics to understand customer behavior, predict churn, identify growth opportunities, and measure the incrementally of initiatives
- Technical Execution & Automation: develop, optimize, and maintain scalable SQL and Python-based data pipelines and analytical workflows
- Write production-quality code to create datasets, compute KPIs, validate results, and build predictive/causal models when needed
- Partner with Data Engineering to enhance data quality, metric consistency, and pipeline reliability, including leveraging tools like Airflow
- Dashboarding & Reporting: create and maintain Tableau/Looker dashboards and recurring scorecards that empower business teams with self-service insights, reducing ad-hoc requests and enabling continuous performance monitoring
- Raise Analytical Bar: champion best practices in statistical rigor, bias awareness, and data governance. Continuously explore new methodologies and tools to elevate the team's analytical capabilities
- Business-Oriented Storytelling & Communication: craft compelling, executive-ready narratives and presentations (slides, memos) that clearly articulate complex analytical findings, strategic implications, and actionable recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences, influencing decision-makers across the organization
- Stakeholder Partnership: clarify objectives, assumptions, tradeoffs, and decision points; ensure outputs are usable
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.
Kirsty
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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