Senior Data Scientist

Nex is on a mission to help families rediscover the joy of movement. Created by parents for parents, Nex combines technology and play to deliver fun, social, and interactive experiences powered by natural body motion, encouraging kids and adults to move more, play more, and have fun together. Nex Playground, the company’s award-winning active play system, is purpose-built to get families moving year-round, with safety and privacy as core considerations in its intentional design. It is certified kidSAFE+ COPPA compliant and built to support healthy, active play for all ages and abilities. Nex Playground features a growing library of 50+ experiences, including motion and dance games, fitness and educational experiences, and Nex Originals. Content includes collaborations with partners like Hasbro, Sesame Workshop, and NBCUniversal. Nex has been recognized by Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, TIME’s Best Inventions, and Parents’ Best Entertainment System for Families, and has earned Red Dot, IDEA, and Core77 international design awards. We encourage you to explore Have Fun and Is Motion Gaming Back? , as they offer a deeper look into our culture, values, and explain how our approach to motion gaming differs from previous generations. To protect yourself from recruitment scams, please note that Nex communicates through official company emails ending in @nex. inc. If you receive a suspicious email or message, please do not respond and report it immediately to us. Location: Seattle, WA or Remote US Annual salary: $140,000 - $165,000 USD (Final base salary within this range will be determined based on job-related factors, including the candidate’s experience, skills, qualifications, and geographic location) Type: Full-Time Reports to: Director, Analytics About this Role Nex’s user base is growing quickly, and the amount of data we’re working with is growing even faster. We are seeking an experienced Senior Data Scientist to upgrade our analytics department, and help us understand our customer’s needs better than ever before as we launch in several new countries around the world.

The ideal candidate for this role is fundamentally curious about the world, and wants to learn as much as possible about how our customers behave. We want Nex to exist at the forefront of subscription-based gaming, and give our customers the best gaming experiences for their age ranges, and the person in this role will have the opportunity to design & carry out the studies that get us there. If you want to work on a small team, for a growing company, and spend your time learning how best to provide value for our customers, we want to hear from you! What You'll Do - Dive deep into customer data: With over a million devices sold, hundreds of thousands of active subscribers and many more on the way, we’ve barely scratched the surface on how to understand our customers. We have terabytes of data, 10s of billions of rows and counting, for you to play around in. - Transform questions into actions: We’re curious about our customers at all levels of the company, and any given question from any given team can potentially be a worthy avenue of study. Take initiative and spend your time working on taking those questions and running with them. - Design studies & automate their upkeep : We don’t just want to learn things once—work with other members of the analytics team to make sure that the existing frameworks you come up with keep running as we move onto new ones. - Write documentation and white papers: Communicate what matters in a manner that is clear, shareable, and can be understood at all levels of the company. Tell us what you’ve discovered, how you got there, and how we can use it. Qualifications - 7+ years of experience as a Data Scientist or 9+ years of experience as a Business Analyst . - Proficiency in SQL to retrieve data from a Redshift database. - Proven ability to work independently, without constant guidance.