Twitch is looking to hire a data scientist to provide deep product and user insights that drive engineering roadmaps, priorities, and investments for their central services and systems.
Requirements
- Expert SQL skills with proven ability to leverage complex data pipelines for actionable insights and drive significant business results
- Advanced proficiency in data analysis techniques, including time series analysis, A/B testing, data visualization, and KPI strategy development for business optimization
- Experience working with software development and operational event data
- Experience with machine learning methods such as logistic regression, decision trees, and neural networks
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with product, engineering, and operations teams to design durable systems that support all of Twitch
- Tackle ambiguous, high-impact problems by defining analytical approaches grounded in statistics, computer science, and deep domain expertise—driving clarity, innovation, and durable solutions at scale
- Become a key thought partner in shaping builder experiences, providing data-backed insights to support higher-quality and more efficient experiences for builders across Twitch
- Maintain a customer-centric focus while being a domain and product expert through data, develop trust amongst peers and stakeholders, and ensure that the teams and programs are empowered and enabled to take data-driven actions
- Prioritize and execute in the face of ambiguity, work with stakeholders and mentors to distill the problem, adapt tools to answer complicated questions, and identify the trade-offs between speed and quality of different approaches
- Create analytical frameworks to measure team success by partnering with cross-functional teams to define success metrics, create approaches to track the data and troubleshoot errors, quantify and evaluate the data to develop a common language for all colleagues to understand these metrics and KPIs
- Operationalize data processes in order to provide stakeholders with ad-hoc analysis, automated dashboards, and self-service reporting tools so that everyone gets a good sense of the state of the business
Other
- 6+ years of domain experience in a consumer internet business or high-velocity, high-growth product/business unit, demonstrating progressive responsibility
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with a talent for translating complex data into clear, actionable recommendations
- Strong business acumen and strategic thinking, with proven ability to prioritize effectively and adapt quickly in fast-paced environments
- Track record of building and maintaining strong relationships across teams while mentoring others and establishing best practices
- Demonstrated leadership in spearheading large-scale projects that require both extensive business knowledge and technical expertise
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Science, Data Science, Business Analytics, or related discipline)
- Experience mentoring team members and driving the creation of best practices within the organization
