[Remote] Senior Data Scientist

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. VRChat Inc. offers a unique platform for social VR experiences, aiming to empower users to shape the metaverse. As a Senior Data Scientist on the Data Team, you will drive product decisions and enhance the product roadmap by analyzing user behavior and collaborating with various teams to improve data-driven insights.ResponsibilitiesPartner with cross-functional teams to define high-impact product questions, success metrics, and decision frameworksAnalyze user behavior, creator activity, content ecosystems, retention, growth, monetization, and social dynamics to identify opportunities and risksDesign and analyze experiments, including A/B tests and other causal measurement approaches, to evaluate product launches, campaigns, and strategic initiativesDefine and improve core product metrics, dashboards, diagnostic views, and recurring reporting that help teams understand what is changing and whyBuild durable analytical assets such as reusable notebooks, data marts, metric definitions, self-serve dashboards, and analysis templatesUse AI-assisted and agentic workflows to accelerate analysis, automate repetitive investigation, improve documentation, and build lightweight internal tools for common analytical questionsCollaborate with Data Engineering and product teams to improve data quality, instrumentation, modeling, and source-of-truth definitionsCommunicate findings clearly to technical and non-technical audiences, including senior stakeholders, and influence product decisions through evidence and judgmentSkills5+ years of experience in data science, product analytics, data analytics, quantitative analysis, or a related analytical roleExpert SQL skills and strong proficiency with Python or R for analysis, experimentation, modeling, automation, and reproducible workflowsStrong product sense, with experience translating ambiguous product or business problems into structured analyses, metrics, experiments, and recommendationsExperience designing, analyzing, and interpreting experiments, including A/B tests, guardrail metrics, and common statistical pitfallsExperience building dashboards, reporting systems, reusable analyses, or data products that help stakeholders self-serve and make better decisionsFamiliarity with AI-assisted analytical workflows, such as using LLMs or agents for code generation, exploratory analysis, documentation, QA, summarization, or workflow automationStrong judgment around data quality, statistical validity, reproducibility, privacy, and the limitations of AI-generated analysisExcellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to explain complex findings clearly and influence senior audiencesBachelor's or Master's degree in a technical, quantitative, or data-related field, or equivalent practical experienceExperience at a social, gaming, creator economy, marketplace, consumer subscription, or UGC platform companyExperience with social graphs, creator ecosystems, virtual economies, recommendations, lifecycle analytics, retention, churn, pricing, trust & safety, or community health metricsExperience building AI-powered internal tools, analytical agents, natural-language data interfaces, automated reporting, or self-service insight systemsExperience with tools such as dbt, Snowflake, BigQuery, Tableau, Amplitude, Hex, Mode, Jupyter, Streamlit, Airflow, Dagster, or similar platformsExperience mentoring other data scientists, analysts, or cross-functional partnersBenefitsWork from anywhere! VRChat is a 100% remote companyHealth Benefits401K for US & RRSP for Canadian EmployeesStock OptionsGenerous paid holiday scheduleUnlimited/Flexible vacation timePaid parental leave benefitsCompany OverviewVRChat, Inc. is one of the leading Virtual World platforms, hosting one of the largest active online communities of users and creators. It was founded in 2014, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://hello.vrchat.com.Company H1B SponsorshipVRChat Inc. has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2025. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.