Staff Data Scientist, Rec Room
Trust & Safety
$194.1-237.2k
+ Stock options
Platform for building and playing games together
Open for applications
Platform for building and playing games together
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$194.1-237.2k
+ Stock options
201-500 employees
Company mission
To provide gaming lovers with amazing immersive social, multiplayer, VR, and AR experiences.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years of analytics experience, with a proven track record of deriving insights that lead to product changes
- 2+ years in trust & safety in a larger organization, experience with child endangerment and law enforcement interaction strongly preferred
- 2+ years in a fraud detection or integrity-focused role within a consumer-based app
- Significant expertise in experimentation methodologies
- Very strong knowledge of SQL
- Experience with Python or R is a plus
- Effective communicator with the ability to distill complex concepts into easily digestible insights
- A Bachelor’s or Masters in Math, CS, or related field
What the job involves
- As a Staff Data Scientist on Trust & Safety, you will play a critical role in making Rec Room a safe, inviting, and inclusive place for people from all walks of life
- Your work will directly impact our threat intelligence systems, preventing bad actors from engaging in harmful and illegal activity on the platform
- Lead our effort in detecting harmful actors and improving child safety on the platform
- Build machine learning models for production that flag malicious players, working with our support teams and law enforcement to reduce harm
- Own the logic and outcomes for our Voice Toxicity system, improving our methodology to identify bad language
- Design KPIs for the T&S org and identify opportunities to lead devs in achieving those KPIs
- Look into fraudulent financial transactions, build our ML models to identify bad actors, and integrate with our support and moderation teams to stop them
- Work closely with our operations team to develop tools to improve moderation efficiency
Our take
Originally launched as a social hangout for virtual-reality headset users, Rec Room follows in the footsteps of gaming giants Roblox, offering a blend of gaming, social media, and user-generated content. With a teenage target market that is slightly older than Roblox, Rec Room now boasts around 29 million active users.
Like its closest rival, Rec Room also puts an emphasis on content creation, allowing users to create their own virtual rooms and games, and share them with the community. However, whilst other companies have relied on platforms like Facebook to initiate the social aspect of the gaming experience, Rec Room has independently provided a variety of social experiences for both novices and experienced gamers.
The company has recently seen both its user-base and valuation grow exponentially, with the considerable funding raised by the company cited to expand operations and business reach. Rec Room also has aims to experiment with changing avatars to add more personalization, for instance by adding feet, and is investigating further brand partnerships in apparel, music, and other categories, as well as more "game-adjacent" content.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Dec 2021
$145m
LATE VC
Mar 2021
$100m
LATE VC
Total funding: $294m
Company benefits
- Flexible Work Culture - As a workplace, we're a fun, supportive, high trust culture and offer 100% remote or hybrid opportunities out of our Seattle office. We provide work from home office equipment, support, and furniture reimbursements
- Unlimited Paid Time Off - We want you to be the best version of yourself. We offer unlimited PTO to give our team members the time they need, when they need it
- 401K - Rec Room offers a competitive 401k package with 100% employer matching up to 6%
- Health and Wellness - We offer premium benefits including: Medical, Dental, Orthodontics, Vision, Paid Parental Leave, Life Insurance, Long Term/Short Term Disability, FSA, Family Care, and EAP
- Career Growth and Mentorship - We are growing fast and we make it a priority to invest in the growth and career development of our folks through educational opportunities and mentorship
- Equity - Become a stakeholder in one of Seattle's most exciting Unicorns! We are a privately held company and offer competitive stock options
Company values
- When in doubt, build it - We take a bias towards action. When in doubt, we build it. We value doers over talkers. Playable code speaks louder than any argument.
- Ready, fire, aim, REPEAT! - We ship and iterate constantly. We learn by trying new things and listening to our community.
- It's a small world - We respect our customers. We value long term connections over making a quick buck. No exploitive monetization methods.
Company HQ
Uptown, Seattle, WA
Articles
Leadership
Nick Fajt
(CEO)They studied at Cornell before working at Microsoft HoloLens, in roles including Principal Program Manager.
Cameron Brown
(CCO)They started their career at Beam Software before roles at Auran, Pandemic Studios, and EA. They also spent 4 years at Microsoft Creative Studios.
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