Data Scientist, Twitch

• Our ideal candidate is a "full-stack" data powerhouse who uses data to drive decision making to make the best products for our creators and their communities
• BA/BS in Analytics, Data Science, Computer Science, Mathematics, or equivalent industry experience
• 3+ years of experience as a data scientist or data analyst in a high velocity, data-driven environment
• 3+ years of machine learning/statistical modeling data analysis tools and techniques, and parameters that affect their performance experience
• Expert SQL skills and proficiency in Python/R
• Experience using data to create insight, drive business decisions and influence leadership

Desirable

• Data is central to Twitch's decision-making process, and data scientists are a critical component to evangelize data-driven decision making in all of our operations
• As a data scientist at Twitch, you will be on the ground floor with your team, shaping the way product performance is measured, defining what questions should be asked, and scaling analytics methods and tools to support our growing business, leading the way for high quality, high velocity decisions for your team
• For this role, we're looking for an experienced product data scientist who will help develop the strategy and evaluate/improve product initiatives within our Creator product team
• You will be responsible to define and track KPIs, design experiments, evaluate A/B tests, implement data instrumentation, and inform on investment
• Your input will be core to decision making across all major product strategies and initiatives that our team builds
• You will work closely with product managers, technical program managers, engineering, data scientists, and organization leadership within and outside of the Creator organization
• Inform product strategies by defining and updating core metrics for each initiative
• Establish analytical framework for your team: ad-hoc analysis, automated dashboards, and self-service reporting tools to surface key data to stakeholders
• Evaluate and forecast impact of product features on creators, viewers, and the entire Twitch ecosystem
• Design A/B experiments to drive product direction with iterative innovation and measurement
• Drive the team's analysis roadmap and prioritize the most valuable projects
• Tackle complex and ambiguous analytic projects, resolve ambiguity and accurately identify the trade-offs between speed and quality and apply or route work as necessary
• Dive deep into the data to understand how creator and viewer behaviors change with the evolution of our product
• Act as our team's thought leader on best practices and move towards long-term vision of sustainable and thriving data processes
• Own data collection and product instrumentation implementation and quality assurance
• Work hand-in-hand with business, product, engineering, and design to proactively influence and inform teammates' decisions throughout the product life cycle
• Distill ambiguous product or business questions, find clever ways to answer them, and to quantify the uncertainty

• This position will remain open until filled
• Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site