Senior Data Scientist

Role Description

As a Senior Data Scientist on VRChat’s Data Team, you will play a key role in driving strategic product decisions and advancing our product roadmap across growth, user experience, creator, and economy verticals. The ideal candidate will have a background in a technical field, will have experience working with large production data sets, and will have some experience delivering data products on a fast-paced team. This position will be full-time and remote.

• 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 to identify opportunities and risks.
• Design and analyze experiments, including A/B tests and other causal measurement approaches, to evaluate product launches, campaigns, and strategic initiatives.
• Define and improve core product metrics, dashboards, diagnostic views, and recurring reporting that help teams understand what is changing and why.
• Build durable analytical assets such as reusable notebooks, data marts, metric definitions, self-serve dashboards, and analysis templates.
• Use AI-assisted and agentic workflows to accelerate analysis, automate repetitive investigation, improve documentation, and build lightweight internal tools for common analytical questions.
• Collaborate with Data Engineering and product teams to improve data quality, instrumentation, modeling, and source-of-truth definitions.
• Communicate findings clearly to technical and non-technical audiences, including senior stakeholders, and influence product decisions through evidence and judgment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data science, product analytics, data analytics, quantitative analysis, or a related analytical role.
• Expert SQL skills and strong proficiency with Python or R for analysis, experimentation, modeling, automation, and reproducible workflows.
• Strong product sense, with experience translating ambiguous product or business problems into structured analyses, metrics, experiments, and recommendations.
• Experience designing, analyzing, and interpreting experiments, including A/B tests, guardrail metrics, and common statistical pitfalls.
• Experience building dashboards, reporting systems, reusable analyses, or data products that help stakeholders self-serve and make better decisions.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted analytical workflows, such as using LLMs or agents for code generation, exploratory analysis, documentation, QA, summarization, or workflow automation.
• Strong judgment around data quality, statistical validity, reproducibility, privacy, and the limitations of AI-generated analysis.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to explain complex findings clearly and influence senior audiences.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a technical, quantitative, or data-related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Bonus Points

• Experience at a social, gaming, creator economy, marketplace, consumer subscription, or UGC platform company.
• Experience with social graphs, creator ecosystems, virtual economies, recommendations, lifecycle analytics, retention, churn, pricing, trust & safety, or community health metrics.
• Experience building AI-powered internal tools, analytical agents, natural-language data interfaces, automated reporting, or self-service insight systems.
• Experience with tools such as dbt, Snowflake, BigQuery, Tableau, Amplitude, Hex, Mode, Jupyter, Streamlit, Airflow, Dagster, or similar platforms.
• Experience mentoring other data scientists, analysts, or cross-functional partners.

Benefits

• Work from anywhere! VRChat is a 100% remote company.
• Health Benefits.
• 401K for US & RRSP for Canadian Employees.
• Stock Options.
• Generous paid holiday schedule.
• Unlimited/Flexible vacation time.
• Paid parental leave benefits.