Data Scientist, Analytics (University Grad)

Data may or may not be the new oil, but it sure is essential to a company like ours.

Roku is changing how the world watches TV

Roku is the #1 TV streaming platform in the US, and we’ve set our sights on powering every television in the world. Roku pioneered streaming to the TV. Our mission is to be the TV streaming platform that connects the entire TV ecosystem. We connect consumers to the content they love, enable content publishers to build and monetize large audiences, and provide advertisers unique capabilities to engage consumers.

From your first day at Roku, you’ll make a valuable — and valued — contribution. We’re a fast-growing public company where no one is a bystander. We offer you the opportunity to delight millions of TV streamers worldwide while gaining meaningful experience across various disciplines.

About the role

Roku pioneered streaming to the TV and continues to innovate and lead the industry. While we are well-positioned to help shape the future of television – including TV advertising – around the world, continued success relies on its investment in our data.

At Roku, data is at the center of everything we do. At Roku’s scale, the depth and richness of our data help us uncover insights to improve our users' everyday experience. That’s why we’re actively looking for a Data Scientist (University Grad) to leverage big data, generating the insights that fuel Roku’s most significant business decisions to play an instrumental role within the Devices & CoreOS product analytics team.

Data Scientists use a combination of technical skills, business intuition, and analytical thinking to partner with business stakeholders and provide actionable recommendations. We expect you to play an instrumental role in helping Roku to continue its success by providing insightful segmentation, analysis of platform and behavioral trends, and A|B testing. More than having strong technical abilities to retrieve, manipulate, analyze, and visualize data and excellent communication capabilities. One of the key requirements of the role is to collaborate with stakeholders and satisfies immediate business needs. The Data Scientists role at Roku is a perfect fit for anyone who wants to continue to evolve business domain expertise alongside technical and analytical development.

As a Data Scientist (University Grad), you’ll be expected to look at what exists and find ways to make it better. We’re always in “build mode” because we’re a company of data-focused builders, especially on the data team.

What you’ll be doing

• Use Roku’s enriched datasets to perform thorough analyses
• Assist new product launches
• Develop data visualizations that illustrate complex platform phenomena using Looker, Tableau, etc.
• Partner with leadership, engineers, product managers, and data engineers to understand business needs and how these can be addressed through analytics
• Use creativity to find proxies where verbatim data or measurement is unavailable
• Identify new applications for the myriad logged events in Roku’s immense data catalog

We’re excited if you have

• Graduating with a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Data Science, Analytics, or relative field of study in Spring 2022, or no earlier than Spring 2021
• Command of SQL and experience working with Big Data
• Experience in R or Python
• A/B teste experience
• Previous internship experience in data management, analytics, data science and reporting
• Experience in using advanced analytics to inform business decisions
• Highly independent and able to manage relationship with stakeholders

The Roku culture

Roku is a great place for people who want to work in a fast-paced environment where everyone is focused on the company’s success rather than their own. We try to surround ourselves with people who are great at their jobs, who are easy to work with, and who keep their egos in check. We appreciate a sense of humor. We believe a fewer number of very talented folks can do more for less cost than a larger number of less talented teams. We’re independent thinkers with big ideas who act boldly, move fast and accomplish extraordinary things through collaboration and trust. In short, at Roku you’ll be part of a company that’s changing how the world watches TV.

We have a unique culture that we are proud of. We think of ourselves primarily as problem-solvers, which itself is a two-part idea. We come up with the solution, but the solution isn’t real until it is built and delivered to the customer. That penchant for action gives us a pragmatic approach to innovation, one that has served us well since 2002.

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