About the team 

The Device Analytics team is the data-driven backbone behind the company's launch of new players, TVs, and Smart Home devices. We work closely with product development teams to define key metrics and track user behavior across these devices. By analyzing this data, the team uncovers insights into user preferences, identifies areas for improvement, and measures the success of each launch. Ultimately, our work helps ensure that the company delivers innovative products that resonate with customers and thrive in the market. 

About the role 

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 Data Scientist to leverage big data, generating the insights that fuel Roku’s most significant business decisions to play an instrumental role within the device and core OS product analytics team. 

Data Scientists use a combination of technical skills, business intuition, and analytical thinking to partner with business leaders and provide actionable recommendations. Data Scientists at Roku are thought partners to executive business leaders, so communication and presentation are enormously important. 

Based in San Jose, this is not an “order-taking” role. You won’t take marching orders from business owners and execute on ad-hoc questions. Instead, you will proactively identify the areas that require attention and formulate analyses, insights, and recommendations based on an excellent command of the needs. 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. 

For California Only - The estimated annual salary for this position is between $77,000 - $189,000 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 enriched datasets to perform thorough analyses 
• Look proactively for questions and opportunities that will help shape business strategy 
• 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 

• 3 years of relevant experience as a data scientist in technology, e-commerce, finance, or ad-tech 
• Good command of SQL, ETL, and A/B testing 
• Experience coding in Python or R 
• Experience with data visualization platform like Looker, Tableau, etc. 
• Statistics knowledge: hypothesis testing, experimentation, regressions, etc. 
  Strong communication skills 
• Academic background in math, physics, computer science, economics 

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