Data Scientist
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Job Description
About Our Company
We’re the world’s largest live streaming platform, where millions of global communities connect daily around shared passions—from gaming, music, and sports to cooking and creative arts. Our mission is to empower creators and foster belonging through real-time interaction. Backed by a collaborative, community-driven culture, we’re solving complex challenges at the intersection of entertainment, technology, and human connection.
The Opportunity
Join our Monetization Data Science team to directly impact how creators earn revenue on our platform. As a Data Scientist focused on Payouts & Creator Economics, you’ll ensure fair, transparent, and innovative compensation systems for thousands of global creators. Partner with Product, Engineering, Finance, and Legal teams to refine payout policies, launch new monetization features, and combat fraud—all while growing into a senior technical leader.
What You’ll Do
- Analyze Policy Impact: Measure how payout program changes (e.g., eligibility rules, payment timelines) affect creator behavior and platform economics.
- Own Creator Insights: Develop dashboards and reports tracking payout performance, earnings trends, and program health.
- Drive Causal Inference: Apply methods like DiD, matching, and IPW to evaluate non-experimental policy shifts.
- Build Data Pipelines: Create and maintain SQL/Python workflows for recurring analytics (owning data ops when needed).
- Cross-Functional Leadership: Guide product decisions by translating data into actionable strategies for stakeholders.
- Support Innovation: Shape new monetization initiatives to expand creator opportunities globally.
Your Expertise
- 3+ years in Data Science, Analytics, or related field.
- Technical Fluency: Advanced SQL (complex joins, window functions), Python (Pandas, SciPy) or R for data analysis, Causal inference mastery (experiment design, quasi-experimental methods).
- Communication: Distill technical insights for executives, legal teams, and engineers.
- Ownership Mentality: Thrive in ambiguity; proactively solve problems with imperfect data.
- Growth Mindset: Eager to evolve from tactical analytics to strategic leadership.
Bonus Points For
- Airflow, SageMaker, or ML deployment experience (fraud/churn models).
- Econometrics background or A/B test design.
- Dashboarding (Tableau, Looker, Redshift).
Perks & Benefits
- 💰 Competitive Salary + Annual Bonus
- 🩺 Full-Coverage Health: Medical, dental, vision, disability (100% premiums)
- 👨 👩 👧 Family Support: 16-week parental leave + fertility benefits
- 🌴 Flexible PTO: Unlimited vacation + company-wide breaks
- 💻 Workspace Stipend: $1,000/year home office upgrade
- 📈 401(k): 100% match up to 6% of salary
- 🛒 Retail Discounts: 10% off at leading e-commerce brands
Our Culture
- Community First: We build belonging—for creators and each other.
- Bold Ownership: Solve hard problems with autonomy and accountability.
- Learn Together: Weekly tech talks, mentorship, and $5k/year learning stipend.
- Global Impact: Your work directly empowers creators worldwide.
Key skills/competency
- SQL
- Python
- Causal Inference
- Data Analysis
- Experiment Design
- Data Pipelines
- Monetization
- Fraud Detection
- Dashboarding
- Stakeholder Communication
How to Get Hired at Underdog.io -Apply to top tech jobs in 60 seconds. A place where companies apply to you
- Research the live streaming platform's mission: Study their focus on creators, community, and real-time interaction to align your application.
- Highlight data science impact: Showcase experience in monetization, creator economics, and policy analysis through project examples.
- Demonstrate technical mastery: Prepare to discuss advanced SQL, Python for analysis, and robust causal inference methods.
- Emphasize problem-solving and ownership: Illustrate instances where you've thrived in ambiguity and owned complex data challenges.
- Align with cultural values: Show curiosity, collaboration, and a growth mindset in your application and interviews.
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