[Remote] Senior Data Scientist

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GFR Fund is a company focused on creating social VR experiences, and they are seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join their Data Team. The role involves driving strategic product decisions through data analysis and collaboration with cross-functional teams to enhance user experience and product growth.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 OverviewGFR Fund is a venture capital fund that invests in early-stage startups that are disrupting the consumer entertainment industry. It was founded in 2016, and is headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas, USA, with a workforce of 2-10 employees. Its website is https://www.gfrfund.com/.