Senior Data Scientist, VRChat
Product Analytics
+Stock Options
Virtual world platform
Job no longer available
Virtual world platform
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
+Stock Options
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
- 4+ years of experience in data science, data analytics, product analytics, or quantitative analysis
- Expert background in utilizing SQL/Python to extract, manipulate, and analyze datasets
- Work cross functionally to translate business problems into ones that can be solved and informed by experimentation and data analysis
- Experience with creating data visualizations to communicate metric performance
- Develop models of usage, user behavior & business behavior to make recommendations and influence the product roadmap
- Conduct A/B testing - design, execute, and analyze experiments to understand impact of product feature deployments and changes
- Ability to effectively communicate complex analyses and insights to non-technical audiences
Desirable
- Previous experience in data science, data analytics, or product analytics at a social or gaming company
- Have curiosity and apply analytical skills to dive deep into data to find key insights that impact the business
- Experience in stakeholder management, relationship building, and influencing senior audiences
- Adaptability, tendency toward simple, creative solutions, and ability to effectively prioritize work in a demanding and changing environment
What the job involves
- As a Senior Data Scientist on VRChat’s Data Team, you will play a key role in driving strategic product decisions and advancing our product roadmap across growth, user experience, creator, and economy verticals
- The ideal candidate will have a background in a technical field, will have experience working with large production data sets, and will have some experience delivering data products on a fast-paced team
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Design, and Marketing teams to scope, design, execute, measure, and improve the impact of product features and campaigns
- Conduct quantitative analysis, deliver insights, and influence product decision making through an understanding of user behavior and our platform ecosystem
- Design and monitor core metrics; perform root cause analysis to explain drivers
- Identify trends and opportunities to drive growth, retention, and monetization initiatives
- Create a healthy ecosystem for content creators, users, and consumers
- Design and analyze experiments to inform and influence product investments
- Acquire new data from various production systems and databases
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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