Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GFR Fund is a company focused on creating social VR experiences, and they are seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join their Data Team. The role involves driving strategic product decisions through data analysis and collaboration with cross-functional teams to enhance user experience and product growth.
Responsibilities
- Partner with cross-functional teams to define high-impact product questions, success metrics, and decision frameworks
- Analyze user behavior, creator activity, content ecosystems, retention, growth, monetization, and social dynamics to identify opportunities and risks
- Design and analyze 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, improve documentation, and build lightweight internal tools for common analytical questions
- Collaborate with Data Engineering and product teams to improve data quality, instrumentation, modeling, and source-of-truth definitions
- Communicate findings clearly to technical and non-technical audiences, including senior stakeholders, and influence product decisions through evidence and judgment
Skills
- 5+ years of experience in data science, product analytics, data analytics, quantitative analysis, or a related analytical role
- Expert SQL skills and strong proficiency with Python or R for analysis, experimentation, modeling, automation, and reproducible workflows
- Strong product sense, with experience translating ambiguous product or business problems into structured analyses, metrics, experiments, and recommendations
- Experience designing, analyzing, and interpreting experiments, including A/B tests, guardrail metrics, and common statistical pitfalls
- Experience building dashboards, reporting systems, reusable analyses, or data products that help stakeholders self-serve and make better decisions
- Familiarity with AI-assisted analytical workflows, such as using LLMs or agents for code generation, exploratory analysis, documentation, QA, summarization, or workflow automation
- Strong judgment around data quality, statistical validity, reproducibility, privacy, and the limitations of AI-generated analysis
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to explain complex findings clearly and influence senior audiences
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in a technical, quantitative, or data-related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Experience at a social, gaming, creator economy, marketplace, consumer subscription, or UGC platform company
- Experience with social graphs, creator ecosystems, virtual economies, recommendations, lifecycle analytics, retention, churn, pricing, trust & safety, or community health metrics
- Experience building AI-powered internal tools, analytical agents, natural-language data interfaces, automated reporting, or self-service insight systems
- Experience with tools such as dbt, Snowflake, BigQuery, Tableau, Amplitude, Hex, Mode, Jupyter, Streamlit, Airflow, Dagster, or similar platforms
- Experience mentoring other data scientists, analysts, or cross-functional partners
Benefits
- Work from anywhere! VRChat is a 100% remote company
- Health Benefits
- 401K for US & RRSP for Canadian Employees
- Stock Options
- Generous paid holiday schedule
- Unlimited/Flexible vacation time
- Paid parental leave benefits
Company Overview
GFR Fund is a venture capital fund that invests in early-stage startups that are disrupting the consumer entertainment industry. It was founded in 2016, and is headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas, USA, with a workforce of 2-10 employees. Its website is https://www.gfrfund.com/.