Data Scientist, Roku
$152-184k
+ Equity
More information about location
4 days a week in office
Convenient and affordable TV streaming players
Open for applications
Convenient and affordable TV streaming players
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$152-184k
+ Equity
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
- 3+ years (or equivalent) in analytics/data science roles driving business decisions (tech, media, marketplaces, consumer products, etc.)
- Strong SQL (joins, window functions, building analysis-ready tables, QA/validation)
- Proficiency in Excel to work with data, tables and visualization
- Strong ability to communicate insights: structured thinking, clear writing, confident presenting to non-technical and executive audiences
- Solid foundation in statistics (hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, regression basics)
- Experienced with Python for analysis and data pipeline production (via Airflow)
- Hands-on experience with visualization tools like Tableau or Looker
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 Data Scientist to join the Core Analytics team and provide support for our Customer Intelligence function, part of the broader Planning & Optimization team
- Together, we answer high-impact business questions from senior leaders with clear, decision-ready insights
- You’ll work on customer analytics that directly shape how Roku grows engagement, retention and monetization across the streaming ecosystem, with visibility to cross-functional leaders and meaningful ownership over high-impact questions
- This role is more than analytics and is intentionally “business-forward”
- We're looking for someone who can translate customer behavior into metrics and narratives which can help define our customer strategy, and/or measure the impact of initiatives on customer behavior
- You’ll be expected to translate ambiguous stakeholder needs into strong analytical narratives and executive-ready deliverables
- Own end-to-end analyses: scope the question, define success metrics, pull data, analyze, synthesize, and deliver data-driven narratives
- Drive stakeholder alignment: clarify objectives, assumptions, tradeoffs, and decision points; ensure outputs are usable
- Build crisp storytelling & presentations: create executive-ready readouts (slides, memos) with clear “so what / now what.”
- Develop SQL and Python-based workflows: write and review SQL/Python code to create datasets, compute KPIs, and validate results; use Airflow to maintain and build new pipelines when needed
- Create reporting in Tableau/Looker: develop dashboards or recurring scorecards that make performance tracking easier and reduce ad-hoc churn
- Measurement & causal thinking: apply or partner on quasi-experimental approaches (e.g., diff-in-diff, propensity matching, synthetic controls) with appropriate caveats to address incrementality questions
- Raise analytical quality: ensure statistical rigor, bias awareness, and clear limitations
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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