Data Scientist

Posted 2 Days Ago
San Francisco, CA, USA
In-Office
160K-265K Annually
Mid level
Gaming • Software
The Role
As a Data Scientist at Triumph, you'll build models that optimize monetization, retention, and acquisition while analyzing user behavior data to drive strategic decisions.
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About Us

Triumph makes mobile gaming more thrilling by letting players wager -- and win -- real money, play in mass multiplayer games, and compete in social tournaments. We've built the top app in our App Store category and sustained exponential month-over-month growth on our revenue and active players. We're hyper-scaling our team and continuing to innovate, launching new products like Rips, our collectibles app, which has found huge success and is continuing to expand. And we're just getting started.

Triumph is backed by some of the top consumer VCs including Goodwater Capital, General Catalyst, and DraftKings Drive Fund.

The Role

As a Data Scientist, you'll own the quantitative systems that drive how millions of real-money 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 real 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 Levi’s Plaza in San Francisco.

Top Skills

Python
SQL
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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
28 Employees
Year Founded: 2020

What We Do

Triumph is disrupting video game monetization with legal, technical and financial infrastructure to power real money tournaments. Founded by two Stanford CS dropouts and backed by leading VC firms and titans of the esports industry.

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