Data Science Intern

About the team

Roku pioneered streaming to the TV and continues to innovate and lead the industry. While we are well-positioned to help shape the future of television – including TV advertising – around the world, continued success relies on its investment in our data.

At Roku, data is at the center of everything we do.  At Roku’s scale, the depth and richness of our data help us uncover insights to improve our users’ everyday experience. That’s why we’re actively looking for a Core Analytics Intern to leverage big data, generating the insights that fuel Roku’s most significant business decisions to play an instrumental role within the Consumer product analytics team. 

About the role

Data Scientists use a combination of technical skills, business intuition, and analytical thinking to partner with business stakeholders and provide actionable recommendations. We expect you to play an instrumental role in helping Roku to continue its success by providing insightful segmentation, analysis of platform and behavioral trends, and A|B testing. More than having strong technical abilities to retrieve, manipulate, analyze, and visualize data and excellent communication capabilities. One of the key requirements of the role is to collaborate with stakeholders and satisfies immediate business needs. The Data Scientists role at Roku is a perfect fit for anyone who wants to continue to evolve business domain expertise alongside technical and analytical development.

As a Core Analytics Intern you’ll be expected to look at what exists and find ways to make it better. We’re always in “build mode” because we’re a company of data-focused builders, especially on the data team. 

For California Only - The estimated hourly rate for this position is between $20 and $50 per hour. 

Compensation packages are based on factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, certifications, and specific geographical location. This role is eligible for health insurance, equity awards, life insurance, disability benefits, parental leave, wellness benefits, and paid time off.

What you’ll be doing

• Use Roku’s enriched datasets to perform thorough analyses
• Assist new product launches
• Develop data visualizations that illustrate complex platform phenomena using Looker, Tableau, etc.
• Partner with leadership, engineers, product managers, and data engineers to understand business needs and how these can be addressed through analytics
• Use creativity to find proxies where verbatim data or measurement is unavailable
• Identify new applications for the myriad logged events in Roku’s immense data catalog

We’re excited if you have/are

• Are currently pursuing a Bachelor’s, Master’s or PhD in a quantitative or similar field.
• Graduating in December 2024 or later. 
• Must have strong analytical, project management & presentation skills.
• Foundational understanding or experience applying statistical concepts to real world problems (A/B testing, logistic regressions, etc.).
• Excellent command of SQL and experience working with Big Data.
• Experience coding in R and Python (preferred).
• Thrive in an ever changing and quickly growing work environment

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