--- title: 'Senior Data Scientist at VRChat' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-data-scientist-vrchat-remote-bxywewp13rs8' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-12' --- # Senior Data Scientist at VRChat - **Company:** VRChat - **Location:** Remote - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-06-15 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/vrchat/f6d04b6b-8d9f-4261-9d1c-4fbf867d636c ## Job description Join the VRChat Team! VRChat offers a first-of-its-kind, game-changing platform that provides an endless collection of social VR experiences and gives 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 anywhere in the world on any device. VRChat has raised around $100M to date with the support of our investors, which include: Makers Fund, Anthos Capital and HTC. We have a great team which includes people from: Netflix, Twitter, Meta, Microsoft, Roblox, Google, Amazon, Unity, Spotify, Discord, Uber, eBay, Robinhood, Twitch, Zynga and TikTok. Come and join the mission! Job Overview As a Senior Data Scientist on VRChat’s Data Team, you will play a key role in driving strategic product decisions and advancing our product roadmap across growth, user experience, creator, and economy verticals. The ideal candidate will have a background in a technical field, will have experience working with large production data sets, and will have some experience delivering data products on a fast-paced team. This position will be full-time and remote. ## What You’ll Do - 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. ## What We’re Looking For - 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. Bonus Points - 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 VRChat is an equal-opportunity employer, and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. VRChat fosters a diverse, creative, and collaborative environment where anyone can contribute to any of the ongoing projects or direction of the roadmap at any time. If you’re a passionate team player who wants to have an impact on a dynamic team, we’d love to hear from you! All job offers are subject to satisfactory referencing and background checks. ## About VRChat ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: VRChat is a social platform that lets users create, share, and explore immersive virtual worlds and avatars together in real time. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series D, $80M led by Anthos Capital in June 2021; total funding $95.2M) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States - **Founded**: 2014 - **Founders**: Graham Gaylor (Co‑Founder & CEO) and David Prado (Founder & Community Leader) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Virtual Reality / Social Platform / User‑Generated Content - **Target customers**: B2C (consumers seeking social experiences), creators (world/avatar builders), and community enthusiasts across VR, PC, Android, and iOS. - **Mission**: *“Enrich the world through immersive social connection”* – bringing billions of people together through immersive experiences that transcend physical barriers. ## Products & Services - **VRChat (Platform)**: A cross‑platform social virtual world available on VR headsets (SteamVR, Oculus), PC, and mobile (Android/iOS). Users can explore thousands of user‑created worlds, customize avatars, chat, and participate in events. The platform also features a growing **Avatar Marketplace** where creators can sell their designs. ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not publicly available - **Key Metrics**: - Annual Revenue: ~$70 M (estimated, per LinkedIn data) - Total Funding: $95.2 M (Seed, Series A, C, D) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Anthos Capital (lead Series D), HTC (lead Series A), Makers Fund (lead Series C), and more recently a partnership with NagisaConnect. - **Growth Signals**: - Employee headcount grew **20.9% YoY** (now ~101 employees across 13 countries). - Expanded to mobile (Android/iOS), growing the addressable user base. - Launch of the Avatar Marketplace opens new creator monetization streams. - One of the largest active online communities in social VR. ## Competitive Advantages - **Massive user‑generated content ecosystem**: Thousands of worlds and avatars keep the experience fresh and community‑driven. - **Cross‑platform reach**: VR, desktop, and mobile – lowers barriers to entry and fosters a diverse user base. - **First‑mover & network effects**: Deeply entrenched community and creator tools make it hard for newcomers to replicate the social graph. - **Creator‑focused tools**: Avatar Marketplace and world‑building tools empower users to earn and innovate on the platform. ## Strategic Focus - Scaling platform stability and real‑time networking to support growing user and creator activity. - Expanding creator monetization and marketplace features. - Growing mobile adoption while maintaining VR quality. - Investing in trust & safety to keep the community safe and welcoming (dedicated team hiring). - Deepening partnerships (e.g., NagisaConnect) for co‑marketing and integrations. ## Why Work Here - **Remote‑first & flexible**: VRChat is fully remote with team members distributed across 13 countries – autonomy and trust are core to the culture. - **Cutting‑edge tech**: Work on advanced VR/AR, real‑time networking, Unity/C#, and large‑scale distributed systems. - **Mission‑driven**: Directly shape how people connect and express themselves in virtual spaces. - **Culture of innovation**: Values like *“Be Bold”*, *“Debate and Commit”*, and *“Own Outcomes”* encourage experimentation and ownership. - **Global, diverse team**: Engineers, designers, and community leaders from all over the world; opportunities to collaborate across time zones. - **Notable perks**: Stock options (startup equity), flexible schedules, and the ability to work on a product used by millions. ## Sources 1. [hello.vrchat.com](https://hello.vrchat.com/careers) – Careers page (mission, values, culture) 2. [jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/vrchat) – Active job openings (remote, roles) 3. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/vrchat) – Company overview, revenue, headcount, founders, funding 4. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/vrchat) – Company description, office, tech stack 5. [leadiq.com](https://leadiq.com/c/vrchat-inc/5a1d8d52540000590073f295) – Partnerships, growth signals, platform updates ## Other roles at VRChat - [Senior Recruiter](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-recruiter-vrchat-remote-s3ma5wtqw709) - [Unity Technical Artist, Event Pipeline](https://feeny.ai/job/unity-technical-artist-event-pipeline-vrchat-remote-zm4mham1eedm) - [Head of Business Development](https://feeny.ai/job/head-of-business-development-vrchat-remote-5cn0demhk6xn) - [VP of Trust & Safety](https://feeny.ai/job/vp-of-trust-safety-vrchat-remote-4jf1qgdpcfmb) - [Japan Business Development & Partnerships Associate（パートタイム／業務委託）](https://feeny.ai/job/japan-business-development-partnerships-associate-vrchat-tokyo-wgrd38bbbxft) — Tokyo, Japan - [Senior People Generalist](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-people-generalist-vrchat-remote-vgyf94xav99v) - [Japan Business Development & Partnerships Associate](https://feeny.ai/job/japan-business-development-partnerships-associate-vrchat-tokyo-k1mg8yqyx9bz) — Tokyo, Japan - [Senior/Staff Platform Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-staff-platform-engineer-vrchat-remote-hw8b7yghfsm0) - [Senior / Staff Backend Engineer (API) – Economy](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-staff-backend-engineer-api-economy-vrchat-remote-9f37t3s7xgmg) - [Staff Engineer - Recommendations](https://feeny.ai/job/staff-engineer-recommendations-vrchat-remote-b7zjc2v3kzmc)