We explore our community, study our platform, and identify opportunities to make Twitch better than ever.
Twitch's Science team is a small group within Twitch charged with helping the company make effective product decisions driven by rigorous research.
Our work powers decision-making at all levels of the company. Check out some of our recent projects!
“They're brought in on almost every product decision that gets made, because you can't make good decisions without understanding the data behind it” - Emmett Shear, Twitch CEO
Drew is a researcher and designer of social technologies big and small. He's an avid collector of obscure Twitch chat copypasta.
Twitch gave Tim the opportunity to work on the two coolest things on the Internet: streamers and Kappas per minute. Before joining Twitch, Tim shipped a game about being a professional esports player.
June has spent her career driving analytics strategies for major businesses. She's raising her daughter with the belief that math is fun.
Ruth is a recovering physicist. If she had to make up a dream job, it would be 'Something with gaming and data science?', so she's happy to be at Twitch!
Thomas has looked at data ranging from video game logs to Wikipedia page edits and lottery revenues. He has been following the Heroes of the Storm pro scene since 2015.
In Mihir's past lives, he was a nonvolatile memory research scientist, a biotech research scientist, and a professional wrestler. Only two of those things are true.
Ariel thrives on making decisions under uncertainty. Formerly a derivatives trader, he is a data scientist by day and an avid poker player by night
We're typically hiring for all kinds of data-related jobs.
Dental, vision, life and health insurance, and a 401k retirement plan.
Lunch and dinner every weekday, breakfast every Tuesday through Thursday.
Flexible paid time off and sick day policies.
$80/month to pay for whatever athletic services you like!
Certified Swedish & Deep Tissue massages scheduled monthly.
Public transportation reimbursement within the Bay Area.
Pick an event (E3, EVO, PAX, Comic Con, etc.) to be sponsored for each year.
Build your dream computer, tool, or hardware setup.