Senior Data Scientist

• Play a key role in driving strategic product decisions and advancing the product roadmap across growth, user experience, creator, and economy verticals at VRChat. • Analyse user behaviour, creator activity, content ecosystems, retention, growth, monetisation, and social dynamics to identify opportunities and risks. • Use AI-assisted and agentic workflows to accelerate analysis, automate repetitive investigation, and build lightweight internal tools for common analytical questions.

• Bring 5+ years of experience in data science, product analytics, data analytics, quantitative analysis, or a related analytical role. • Demonstrate expert SQL skills and strong proficiency with Python or R for analysis, experimentation, modelling, automation, and reproducible workflows. • Hold strong product sense with experience translating ambiguous product or business problems into structured analyses, metrics, experiments, and recommendations. • Have experience designing, analysing, and interpreting experiments including A/B tests, guardrail metrics, and common statistical pitfalls. • Build dashboards, reporting systems, reusable analyses, or data products that help stakeholders self-serve and make better decisions. • Show familiarity with AI-assisted analytical workflows such as using LLMs or agents for code generation, exploratory analysis, documentation, and workflow automation. • Exercise strong judgment around data quality, statistical validity, reproducibility, privacy, and the limitations of AI-generated analysis. • Communicate excellently and manage stakeholders effectively, explaining complex findings clearly and influencing senior audiences. • Hold a Bachelor's or Master's degree in a technical, quantitative, or data-related field, or equivalent practical experience.

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

• Partner with cross-functional teams to define high-impact product questions, success metrics, and decision frameworks. • Analyse user behaviour, creator activity, content ecosystems, retention, growth, monetisation, and social dynamics to identify opportunities and risks. • Design and analyse 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, and build lightweight internal tools. • Collaborate with Data Engineering and product teams to improve data quality, instrumentation, modelling, and source-of-truth definitions. • Communicate findings clearly to technical and non-technical audiences and influence product decisions through evidence and judgment.

• Work from anywhere as part of a 100% remote company. • Receive health benefits and stock options. • Access 401K for US employees or RRSP for Canadian employees. • Take unlimited and flexible vacation time. • Receive paid parental leave. • Enjoy a generous paid holiday schedule. • Join a team that includes people from Netflix, Twitter, Meta, Microsoft, Roblox, Google, Amazon, Unity, Spotify, Discord, and more.

VRChat offers a first-of-its-kind platform providing an endless collection of social VR experiences and giving 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 on any device. The company has raised around $100M with the support of investors including Makers Fund, Anthos Capital, and HTC.