Data Scientist

triumph-arcade; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lunch credit

Healthcare

Vision

Dental

401k

Job summary

Triumph is seeking a Data Scientist to own quantitative systems driving pricing, payouts, and matchmaking for millions of players. You will build models touching money and user outcomes, collaborating with a small, high-output quant team that operates like a trading desk.

You will shape pricing engines, retention levers, and growth strategies through rigorous experimentation and real-time production systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative subject.
• Expertise in probability, statistics, ML, or mathematics.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL.
• Experience with large-scale user or behavioral datasets.

Responsibilities

• Monetization & Pricing: Develop pricing engines and payout structures.
• User Journey & Retention: Model full player lifecycle to improve retention and LTV.
• Experimentation: Design and analyze experiments with robust statistics.
• Behavioral Modeling: Build ML models on high-frequency user data for product decisions.
• Growth & Acquisition: Model acquisition spend and optimize channels for monetization.
• Cross-Functional Impact: Translate model outputs into shipped features with engineering and product teams.

Skills

Python

SQL

Machine Learning

Statistics

Experimentation

Causal Inference

Data Visualization

Education

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field

Tools

SQL

Python

Pandas

Scikit-learn

Job description

The Role

As a Data Scientist, you'll own the quantitative systems that drive how millions of players experience Triumph's products, from their first session to long-term retention and monetization. You'll build the models and frameworks behind our most critical business decisions: how we price, how we pay out, how we match players, and how we grow.

You'd be joining a small, high-output quant team (4 people today) that operates like a trading desk. We build the mathematical systems that power Triumph's core business: pricing engines, payout distributions, matchmaking algorithms, risk models, and player behavior systems. Every model we ship touches money and real users. You see the impact in the numbers the next day.

What You'll Do

• Monetization & Pricing: Develop and optimize the pricing engines, payout structures, and edge calculations that are the mathematical backbone of Triumph's revenue. Own pack economics, rarity calibration, and pricing models for Rips by Triumph.

• User Journey & Retention: Build models that map the full player lifecycle: acquisition, activation, engagement, monetization, churn risk. Identify the quantitative levers that move retention and LTV, and design interventions that act on them.

• Experimentation: Design and analyze experiments (A/B tests and beyond) with rigorous statistical methodology. Own the measurement framework that tells us what's actually working across the product.

• Behavioral Modeling: Develop ML and statistical models on rich, high-frequency user behavior data (session patterns, spend curves, matchmaking outcomes, gameplay trajectories) to drive both product decisions and real-time production systems.

• Growth & Acquisition: Build models that directly inform acquisition spend and channel optimization, connecting upstream marketing decisions to downstream LTV and monetization outcomes.

• Cross-Functional Impact: Partner closely with engineering, product, and leadership to translate model outputs into shipped features and strategic decisions. Identify high-leverage quantitative problems across the business and drive them from formulation to production impact.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative subject: math, physics, computer science, statistics, economics, or a related discipline.

• True depth and mastery in at least one quantitative domain: probability, statistics, applied ML, causal inference, or mathematics. We want spiky people who are confident they are among the best in their discipline.

• Proficiency in Python and SQL.

• Experience working with large-scale user or behavioral datasets.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in consumer tech, gaming, fintech, or marketplace data science, particularly in monetization, LTV modeling, or experimentation.

• Prior experience as a quantitative trader or quantitative researcher.

• Experience in competitive math, physics, or CS olympiads, or a graduate degree in a quantitative discipline.

• Nationally competitive in any activity. Some members of our team include national champions in debate, Clash Royale, and Poker.

Why Triumph?

• High growth. Build a high-scale consumer platform that touches gaming, finance, and social with the autonomy to set our web direction.

• High agency. Small, high-impact engineering team that is growing rapidly with significant opportunity for leadership and growth.

• High energy. Passionate team who are proud of our work and velocity (16x year over year growth).

• Competitive salary and benefits. $400/mo lunch credit, healthcare, vision, dental, 401k, etc.

Our team gathers 5 days a week at Triumph's headquarters at Levis Plaza in San Francisco.