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PocketWorlds

Create, share, monetize creator-built virtual worlds

Data & Analytics

Data Science +1Confirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeAustin, TX, USANo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Strong SQL and Python skills for analysis.
  • Applied statistics skills, including selecting suitable methods for noisy, skewed, real-world data and understanding their limitations.
  • Comfort building and deploying small services and data pipelines.
  • Fluency with AI coding agents and the workflows around them.
  • Ability to evaluate whether numbers are plausible and investigate anomalies before reporting them.
  • Ability to structure analysis to answer the intended question, including comparing like with like, separating real effects from noise or measurement shifts, and recognizing when data cannot support a conclusion.
  • Understanding of free-to-play games, including monetization such as gacha, live events, virtual economies, and player-segment behavior.
  • Ability to explain methods in plain language and write for decision-makers, emphasizing interpretation rather than restating numbers.

Responsibilities

  • Own analytics across content releases, live events, monetization, the in-game economy, and player behavior, from framing ambiguous questions through providing clear recommendations.
  • Write complex SQL queries against large, messy, semi-structured event data.
  • Design and evaluate A/B tests, and draw sound conclusions when a clean experiment is not possible.
  • Reconcile metrics across sources and explain discrepancies between numbers.
  • Use AI agents as the main source of leverage for analysis, engineering, and reporting, while critically evaluating their output for flawed logic, bad data, or failure to answer the intended question.
  • Build shared context and processes that make AI-assisted analysis reliable for oneself and others.
  • Help less technical teammates answer their own questions safely.
  • Build bespoke internal dashboards and tools tailored to users' decisions, and put relevant answers in front of the appropriate people.
  • Work closely with tool users to understand their needs, iterate after launch, and measure success through adoption.
  • Own internal tools end to end, from data pipeline through interface, deployment, and iteration.
  • Build and maintain scheduled pipelines that feed internal tools.
  • Build models and simulations as needed, including forecasting, economy and event simulation, probability and expected-value tools, and machine-learning-based content scoring.
  • Make tools usable beyond the data team through clear documentation, APIs, and integrations.
  • Turn findings into concrete recommendations for product, art, live operations, and external partners, and follow through to shipped changes.
  • Own recurring performance reporting and target tracking, and explain what drives results above or below plan.
  • Act as a thought partner on design and planning decisions.

Desired Qualifications

  • Familiarity with applied machine learning, including embeddings, similarity, and scoring.

About the Company

PocketWorlds

Create, share, monetize creator-built virtual worlds

Pocket Worlds builds a platform for immersive digital experiences where users can create, share, and monetize virtual worlds. Its flagship product, Highrise, is a virtual universe that people explore and interact with inside creator-built environments. The platform works by letting digital creators design items, experiences, and entire worlds, which other users can purchase or interact with through in-app transactions. Creators earn revenue from what they sell, while Pocket Worlds takes a percentage of transactions and also offers premium features for customization. The company differentiates itself through a strong, community-driven culture that emphasizes ownership, curiosity, and initiative, making it easy for beginners to build engaging experiences without advanced technical skills. Its goal is to grow a large, active ecosystem where creators can express themselves, connect with others, and earn money by contributing virtual content and worlds.

Company size
51-200
Company stage
Early VC
Total funding
$10.1M
Headquarters
Austin, TX
Founded
2015

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