Senior Data Scientist @ Roku

Teamwork makes the stream work.

Roku is changing how the world watches TV

Roku is the #1 TV streaming platform in the US, and we’ve set our sights on powering every television in the world. Roku pioneered streaming to the TV. Our mission is to be the TV streaming platform that connects the entire TV ecosystem. We connect consumers to the content they love, enable content publishers to build and monetize large audiences, and provide advertisers unique capabilities to engage consumers.

From your first day at Roku, you’ll make a valuable - and valued - contribution. We’re a fast-growing public company where no one is a bystander. We offer you the opportunity to delight millions of TV streamers around the world while gaining meaningful experience across a variety of disciplines.

About the Team

The Media Analytics Team provides data-driven insights and guidance for Roku Media. We collaborate closely with our Engineering, Ad Sales, Ad Inventory Ad Product, Roku Originals and Content Acquisition teams to deliver compelling content that attracts audiences sought out by our advertisers.

About the Role

Roku pioneered TV streaming and continues to innovate and lead the industry. The Roku Channel has us well-positioned to help shape the future of streaming. Continued success relies on investing in our core advertising analytics team.

Roku is looking for a Senior Data Scientist 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. A Senior Data Scientist need not only have strong technical abilities to retrieve, manipulate, analyze, and visualize data but also excellent communication capabilities. A key requirement of the role is the ability to collaborate with senior stakeholders to identify and build high impact analytics solutions to business needs.

The ideal candidate will have endless curiosity and can pair a global mindset with locally relevant execution. You should be a gritty problem solver and self-starter who can drive programs with the product and commercial teams within Roku and across external strategic partner organizations. The successful candidate will display a balance of hard and soft skills, including the ability to respond quickly to changing business needs.

For California Only - The estimated annual salary for this position is between $163,000 - $245,000 annually. 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 Big Data to perform a thorough analysis
Design and evaluate A/B experiments
Develop data visualizations that illustrate complex platform phenomena using Tableau, looker, etc.
Partner with leadership, engineers, product managers and data engineers to understand data needs
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:

4+ years of relevant experience as a data analyst or data scientist in technology, e-commerce, finance, or ad-tech (heavy AdTech)
Excellent command of SQL and experience working with Big Data
Experience coding in R or Python
Experience with data visualization platform like Tableau, Looker, etc (coachable*)
Statistics knowledge: A/B testing, statistical inference, interpretation of data, etc.
Familiarity with the ad tech terminology and landscape, including prior experience working with DSP, SSP, ad server, and/or DMP data
Strong written and verbal communication skills
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

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Benefits

Roku is committed to offering a diverse range of benefits as part of our compensation package to support our employees and their families. Our comprehensive benefits include global access to mental health and financial wellness support and resources. Local benefits include statutory and voluntary benefits which may include healthcare (medical, dental, and vision), life, accident, disability, commuter, and retirement options (401(k)/pension). Our employees can take time off work for vacation and other personal reasons to balance their evolving work and life needs. It’s important to note that not every benefit is available in all locations or for every role. For details specific to your location, please consult with your recruiter.

The Roku Culture

Roku is a great place for people who want to work in a fast-paced environment where everyone is focused on the company’s success rather than their own. We try to surround ourselves with people who are great at their jobs, who are easy to work with, and who keep their egos in check. We appreciate a sense of humor. We believe a fewer number of very talented folks can do more for less cost than a larger number of less talented teams. We’re independent thinkers with big ideas who act boldly, move fast and accomplish extraordinary things through collaboration and trust. In short, at Roku you’ll be part of a company that’s changing how the world watches TV. 

We have a unique culture that we are proud of. We think of ourselves primarily as problem-solvers, which itself is a two-part idea. We come up with the solution, but the solution isn’t real until it is built and delivered to the customer. That penchant for action gives us a pragmatic approach to innovation, one that has served us well since 2002. 

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Teamwork makes the stream work.

Roku is changing how the world watches TV

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