Full-Time
Senior Data Scientist
VRChat
51-200 employees
Social VR platform with user-generated worlds
No salary listed
Remote in USA
Remote
Bachelor's, Master's
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- 5+ years of experience in data science, product analytics, data analytics, quantitative analysis, or a related analytical role.
- Expert SQL skills and strong proficiency with Python or R for analysis, experimentation, modeling, automation, and reproducible workflows.
- Strong product sense, with experience translating ambiguous product or business problems into structured analyses, metrics, experiments, and recommendations.
- Experience designing, analyzing, and interpreting experiments, including A/B tests, guardrail metrics, and common statistical pitfalls.
- Experience building dashboards, reporting systems, reusable analyses, or data products that help stakeholders self-serve and make better decisions.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted analytical workflows, such as using LLMs or agents for code generation, exploratory analysis, documentation, QA, summarization, or workflow automation.
- Strong judgment around data quality, statistical validity, reproducibility, privacy, and the limitations of AI-generated analysis.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to explain complex findings clearly and influence senior audiences.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a technical, quantitative, or data-related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to define high-impact product questions, success metrics, and decision frameworks.
- Analyze user behavior, creator activity, content ecosystems, retention, growth, monetization, and social dynamics to identify opportunities and risks.
- Design and analyze experiments, including A/B tests and other causal measurement approaches, to evaluate product launches, campaigns, and strategic initiatives.
- Define and improve core product metrics, dashboards, diagnostic views, and recurring reporting that help teams understand what is changing and why.
- Build durable analytical assets such as reusable notebooks, data marts, metric definitions, self-serve dashboards, and analysis templates.
- Use AI-assisted and agentic workflows to accelerate analysis, automate repetitive investigation, improve documentation, and build lightweight internal tools for common analytical questions.
- Collaborate with Data Engineering and product teams to improve data quality, instrumentation, modeling, and source-of-truth definitions.
- Communicate findings clearly to technical and non-technical audiences, including senior stakeholders, and influence product decisions through evidence and judgment.
- Experience at a social, gaming, creator economy, marketplace, consumer subscription, or UGC platform company.
- Experience with social graphs, creator ecosystems, virtual economies, recommendations, lifecycle analytics, retention, churn, pricing, trust & safety, or community health metrics.
- Experience building AI-powered internal tools, analytical agents, natural-language data interfaces, automated reporting, or self-service insight systems.
- Experience with tools such as dbt, Snowflake, BigQuery, Tableau, Amplitude, Hex, Mode, Jupyter, Streamlit, Airflow, Dagster, or similar platforms.
- Experience mentoring other data scientists, analysts, or cross-functional partners.
VRChat is a social virtual reality platform for creating, sharing, and exploring VR worlds and avatars via a Unity SDK. It runs without a headset, broadening access, and centers on user-generated content to drive ongoing activity. It features full-body avatars with lip sync, eye tracking, 3-D spatialized audio, and a variety of games to boost immersion. It uses a freemium model with premium features like exclusive worlds, priority server access, and more avatar slots, and aims to grow a large, community-driven social VR ecosystem.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Series D
Total Funding
$95.2M
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2014
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- June 2026 updates improved avatar performance gating, reporting, and menu positioning.
- VRChat's Creator Economy and avatar marketplace kept expanding through 2026.
- UK age assurance can unlock safer 18-plus communities and subscription revenue.
What critics are saying
- June 2026 cloud access exposed user account data, triggering Maine AG scrutiny.
- Creators still earn more on Booth.pm and Gumroad than VRChat's 50% split.
- A repeat breach or moderation failure destroys trust and accelerates platform abandonment.
What makes VRChat unique
- VRChat's Creator Economy monetizes worlds, groups, and avatars directly in-app.
- Third-person desktop mode became free for all users in June 2026.
- Spatialized audio and user-built worlds keep social experiences uniquely immersive.
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Benefits
Remote Work Options
Health Insurance
401(k) Retirement Plan
401(k) Company Match
Stock Options
Paid Vacation
Unlimited Paid Time Off
Parental Leave
Growth & Insights and Company News
6 month growth
↑ 5%1 year growth
↑ 2%2 year growth
↑ 0%SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- #gaming--VRChat partners with Anthos Capital to Close $80M Series D. This funding will allow VRChat to grow and empower VRChat’s community.