VRChat - Senior Data Scientist
Requirements
• This position will be full-time and remote. • 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. • 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.
Responsibilities
• 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.
Benefits
• Work from anywhere! VRChat is a 100% remote company • 401K for US & RRSP for Canadian Employees • Generous paid holiday schedule • Unlimited/Flexible vacation time • VRChat is an equal-opportunity employer, and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. VRChat fosters a diverse, creative, and collaborative environment where anyone can contribute to any of the ongoing projects or direction of the roadmap at any time. If you’re a passionate team player who wants to have an impact on a dynamic team, we’d love to hear from you! • All job offers are subject to satisfactory referencing and background checks.
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