Product Data Scientist

1 Month ago • 3 Years + • Data Analyst

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Job Description

As a Product Data Scientist at Rec Room, you will leverage your analytical expertise to mentor junior scientists and analyze player behavior data to inform key decisions. You'll build and lead analytics experiments, reports, and dashboards using SQL, R, Python, and other tools. Responsibilities include understanding player retention, in-game monetization, optimizing user-generated content, and enhancing player engagement. You'll collaborate with game designers, engineers, and leadership to provide strategic insights and recommendations. The role also involves working with data engineering to improve data logging and analytics infrastructure. You will use statistical modeling techniques to run robust experimentation and identify key levers to influence player metrics.
Must have:
  • Quantitative analysis expertise
  • Experience with user behavior analysis
  • Proficiency in SQL, R/Python
  • A/B testing and statistical modeling
  • Data visualization and dashboarding skills
  • Mentoring junior data scientists
Good to have:
  • Proficiency in data visualization tools like StatSig, Sigma, or Hex
Perks:
  • Unlimited paid time off
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
  • 401k with company match
  • Equipment, family, and pet care stipends

Rec Room is the best place to build and play games together. Chat, hang out, explore millions of rooms, or build something new to share with the world. Rec Room is played on nearly every platform worldwide, and we want to ensure it's played well. We are currently seeking to grow our Data Science organization to cover and partner with a number of internal disciplines: 

Please apply here for to be considered for any of the following areas:

  • Growth / Bizops
  • Player Experience 
  • Creator Tooling
  • Trust & Safety
  • Avatar 
  • In-game Economy 

As a Data Scientist at RecRoom, you'll use your analytical expertise to mentor other scientists and dive deep into player behavior data to drive impactful decisions across the platform. At RecRoom, we tackle a wide array of challenges, from understanding player retention and in-game monetization to optimizing user-generated content, player engagement, and much more. If you have a passion for finding patterns in large datasets and using analytics to inform product development, growth strategies, and player experience, this role is for you!

 

You're excited about this opportunity because you will…

  • Use quantitative analysis to go beyond surface-level numbers and truly understand what drives player engagement, retention, and monetization.
  • Build and lead end-to-end analytics experiments, reports, and interactive dashboards using SQL, R, Python, or other analytical tools.
  • Mentor junior analysts and data scientists, teaching them advanced statistical methods and how to apply them to RecRoom-specific challenges.
  • Produce actionable insights and recommendations by applying statistical techniques to run robust experimentation to find / deliver value to players. 
  • Work closely with game designers, engineers, and our executive leadership team to deliver strategic insights around player behavior, content trends, and platform dynamics.
  • Identify and measure key levers to help influence critical player metrics and make strategic recommendations to optimize the player experience.
  • Collaborate closely with our Data Engineering org to implement, document, validate, and monitor our data logging and analytics infrastructure.

 

We're excited about you because you have…

  • A degree in a quantitative field such as Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
  • 3+ years of experience in data analytics, data science, or a related field, with a focus on user behavior and engagement in digital products or gaming platforms.
  • Experience in user segmentation, cohort analysis, funnel optimization, time series analysis, and statistical modeling (e.g., regression, clustering).
  • Expertise in SQL, ETL processes, A/B testing, and statistical analysis using tools like R, Python, or similar packages.
  • Proficiency in data visualization tools like StatSig, Sigma, or Hex is a plus. 
  • A problem-solving mindset, with the ability to tackle open-ended questions in a structured, hypothesis-driven, data-supported way.

 

The base pay range for this position is listed below; please note the base pay may vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Stock options and, in some cases, a sign-on bonus may be offered as part of the compensation package. We also offer a full slate of benefits, including flexible vacation, medical, dental vision, life and disability coverage, long-term care insurance, FSA, commuter benefits, a 401(k) plan with company match, and a parental leave program. We also offer some not-so-standard benefits, including equipment, family, and pet care stipends.

Base Pay Range

$130,313 - $183,031 USD

COMPANY INFO TO KNOW: 

Rec Room offers generous medical, dental, and vision plans that cover you, your spouse/domestic partner, and your children. We also support your retirement benefits with a company match. Rec Room values work-life balance by providing unlimited paid time off. Our company values are real and drive our culture. We work hard to be a safe and friendly place for people from all walks of life. 

Rec Room provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

Applicants who need reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process may contact  in confidence. Rec Room will work with each individual to define their application-related needs and to try to accommodate those needs.

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$156.7K/yr avg.
United States

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