Data Scientist

About Us

Twitch is the world’s biggest live streaming service, with global communities built around gaming, entertainment, music, sports, cooking, and more. It’s where millions of people come together to chat, interact, and make their own entertainment. 

We’re about community, inside and out. You’ll find coworkers who are eager to team up, collaborate, and smash (or elegantly solve) problems together. We’re on a quest to empower live communities, so if this sounds good to you, see what we’re up to on LinkedIn and Twitter, get interviewing tips on Instagram, and discover projects we’re solving on our Blog.

About the Role

Data is central to Twitch's decision-making process, and scientists are a critical component to evangelize data-driven decision making in all of our operations. As a Data Scientist in Marketing at Twitch, you will join a growing team (currently spread across SF, London and Singapore) building critical infrastructure frameworks that will help our stakeholders make key decisions. This position will report to the Head of Marketing Science.

You will have experience wrangling very large datasets using SQL and have a passion for building dashboards, utilizing best in class visualization tools and techniques. You will be part of the full lifecycle of identifying the needs, formulating the result, working backwards from there to come up with a solution and eventually implementing it to help stakeholders understand the state of the business as well as make important decisions.

You Will:

• Conduct ad-hoc analyses, build robust automated dashboards and self-service analytics to empower team members to make decisions based on actionable insights
• Drive the building and strategy of marketing campaigns across multiple marketing channels including, but not limited to, emails and push notifications
• Analyze marketing campaigns that touch creators, viewers, and the entire Twitch ecosystem and measure the impact of these campaigns
• Assist with data collection pertaining to areas such as audience segmentation and marketing campaign performance

You Have:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in engineering, math, statistics, data analytics or operations research
• 0-2+ years experience in an analytics function in the consumer internet space or in a high-velocity, high-growth product / business

Bonus Points

• Masters degree
• SQL skills and the ability to wrangle potentially unruly data
• Experience using Tableau or other similar data visualization tool
• Fluency in data analysis and communication around data
• You are Twitch user yourself and have a passion for gaming and media
• Experience with Python, R or other similar statistical tools
• Experimentation or A/B testing experience

Perks

• Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance
• 401(k), Maternity & Parental Leave
• Flexible PTO
• Commuter Benefits
• Amazon Employee Discount
• Monthly Contribution & Discounts for Wellness Related Activities & Programs (e.g., gym memberships, off-site massages, etc.),
• Lunch Served Daily
• Free Snacks & Beverages

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Twitch. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Job ID: TW7004