Senior Data Scientist

Responsibilities

• Partner with cross-functional teams to define high-impact product questions, success metrics, and decision frameworks.
• Analyze user behavior, creator activity, content ecosystems, retention, growth, monetization, and social dynamics.
• Design and analyze experiments, including A/B tests and other causal measurement approaches, to evaluate product launches and strategic initiatives.
• Define and improve core product metrics, dashboards, diagnostic views, and recurring reporting.
• Build durable analytical assets such as reusable notebooks, data marts, and self-serve dashboards.
• Use AI-assisted and agentic workflows to accelerate analysis, automate investigations, and build lightweight internal tools.
• Collaborate with Data Engineering to improve data quality, instrumentation, and modeling.
• Communicate findings clearly to technical and non-technical audiences to influence product decisions.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in data science, product analytics, or a related quantitative role.
• Expert SQL skills and strong proficiency with Python or R.
• Experience designing, analyzing, and interpreting experiments and A/B tests.
• Experience building dashboards, reporting systems, or data products that enable stakeholder self-service.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted analytical workflows, such as using LLMs for code generation or workflow automation.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a technical, quantitative, or data-related field.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience at a social, gaming, creator economy, or UGC platform company.
• Knowledge of social graphs, virtual economies, or community health metrics.
• Experience building AI-powered internal tools or natural-language data interfaces.
• Proficiency with tools like dbt, Snowflake, BigQuery, Tableau, Amplitude, or Hex.
• Experience mentoring other data scientists or analysts.

Benefits

• 100% remote work environment.
• Health Benefits.
• 401K (US) or RRSP (Canada).
• Stock Options.
• Generous paid holiday schedule and unlimited/flexible vacation time.
• Paid parental leave benefits.

About the Company

VRChat offers a first-of-its-kind, game-changing platform that provides an endless collection of social VR experiences and gives the power of creation to its robust community. With over 250,000 worlds and growing, VRChat’s vision is to allow users to bring their imaginations to life and help shape the metaverse.