Senior Data Scientist, Roku

• As a Sr. Data Scientist, you will bring strong technical experience retrieving, manipulating, analyzing, and visualizing data.
• Just as importantly, you will bring excellent communication skills, proven collaboration track record, and business acumen
• 5+ years of relevant experience in data analytics, data science or business intelligence role. Previous experience in Logistics, operations, product analytics is preferred
• Excellent command of SQL and experience working with Big Data
• Experience coding in Python or R
• Hands-on experience with data visualization platform like Tableau, Looker, or similar
• Statistics knowledge: A/B testing, statistical inference, interpretation of data
• Have a bias towards action in resolving issues and operate in a high-energy, fast-paced environment
• Self-driven, highly motivated, and independent minded individual who has a natural curiosity for understanding operations via data
• Strong communication skills. Composes and communicates materials and information that is clear, concise, and appropriate to the intended audience
• Excellent investigative skills with a passion for finding the root cause of an issue
• The ability to work independently and across multiple time zones
• Ownership mindset, you own end to end lifecycle of a product starting from ideation, rollout to post-launch performance tracking
• Academic background in math, physics, computer science, economics

• At Roku, as a Senior Data Scientists you will leverage Big Data to generate insights that fuel Roku’s most significant business decisions.
• As a Senior Data Scientist, you will also use a combination of technical skills, business intuition, and analytical thinking to partner with business leaders and provide actionable recommendations.
• Senior Data Scientists at Roku are thought partners to executive business leaders, so communication and presentation are enormously important.
• Senior Data Scientists do not take direction from business owners and execute ad-hoc questions.
• You will proactively identify the areas of the data and business that require attention and formulate analyses, insights, and recommendations based on an excellent command of the needs.
• Roku is looking for a Sr. Data scientist to join the Core Analytics team supporting the Operations team.
• As a Sr. Data Scientist, you will bring strong technical experience retrieving, manipulating, analyzing, and visualizing data.
• Develop and maintain dashboards, reports, and data visualizations to monitor key metrics for operational and systems health
• Analyze structured and unstructured data and communicate insights to help stakeholders solve business problems, identify trends and make data-driven decisions
• Develop data visualizations that illustrate complex platform phenomena using Looker, Tableau etc
• Develop necessary data pipelines to power automation, validation and reporting
• Use creativity to find proxies where verbatim data or measurement is unavailable
• Collaborate with stakeholders to align data science initiatives with organizational goals and strategy design and execute AB tests
• Stay updated with the latest trends and technologies in data science to drive innovation

• Just as importantly, you will bring excellent communication skills, proven collaboration track record, and business acumen

• Medical, wellness and financial benefits
• Unlimited paid time off policy
• Work from home opportunities
• Free snacks and access to the company fitness center

Total funding: $247.8m

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