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Senior Data Scientist - ML
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About Us
Twitch is the world’s biggest live streaming service, with global communities built around gaming, entertainment, music, sports, cooking, and more. It is where thousands of communities come together for whatever, every day.
About The Team
The Community Discovery Machine Learning (CDML) team powers the systems that help millions of active viewers find the creators and communities they'll enjoy most. Powering the home page recommendations, browse, search, and feed ranking experiences, this team and its algorithms are at the heart of enabling the connections that make Twitch a great place for so many users.
About The Role
Data is critical to the algorithms that power the recommendation, search, and ranking systems. As a Senior Data Scientist on the CDML team, you'll be responsible for helping drive improvements to the machine learning systems as well as analytics to drive decision-making. In this role, you can identify and build new signals to input into the models and work on the value model that the algorithm optimizes.
You Will:
Inform product strategies by defining and updating core metrics for each initiative.
Estimate the opportunity sizing of new features the team could take on.
Identify and build new signals to incorporate into the algorithms driving recommendations, search, and feed ranking at Twitch.
Identify metric tradeoff ratios that help inform value model choices, long-term impact from early-growth-funnel users, and other product decisions.
Establish analytical framework for your team: ad-hoc analysis, automated dashboards, and self-service reporting tools to surface key data to stakeholders.
Design A/B experiments to drive product direction with iterative innovation and measurement.
Work hand-in-hand with business, product, engineering, and design to proactively influence and inform teammates' decisions throughout the product life cycle.
Distill ambiguous product or business questions, find clever ways to answer them, and quantify the uncertainty.
You Have:
BA/BS in Analytics, Data Science, Computer Science, Mathematics, or equivalent industry experience.
5+ years of experience as a data scientist or data analyst in a high velocity, data-driven environment.
5+ years of machine learning/statistical modeling data analysis tools and techniques, and parameters that affect their performance experience.
Expert SQL skills and proficiency in Python/R.
Experience using data to create insight, drive business decisions and influence leadership.
Bonus Points:
MS/MA or higher in Analytics, Data Science, Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related technical field.
Experience working on algorithms powering large-scale consumer services.
Experience in a data science team working on customer software products, analytics, and insights.
Experience working with software development and operational event data.
Familiarity with Twitch, either as a viewer or creator (or both!).
Perks:
Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance.
401(k).
Maternity & Parental Leave.
Flexible PTO.
Amazon Employee Discount.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Twitch. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Twitch values your privacy. Please consult our Candidate Privacy Notice, for information about how we collect, use, and disclose personal information of our candidates.
Job ID: TW8683
US Pay Per Year: $143,300—$247,400 USD
Seniority level:
Not Applicable
Employment type:
Full-time
Job function:
Engineering and Information Technology
Industries:
Technology, Information and Internet
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Job Tags
Full time, Flexible hours,