Senior Data Scientist - Social

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. 

At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. 

A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.

Why Data Science & Analytics?

The Data Science & Analytics organization's mission is to increase our speed, frequency, and acumen of our business decisions and to empower and scale product innovations. We cover a wide area of the data spectrum, including analytical data engineering, product analytics, experimentation, causal inference, statistical modeling, and machine learning. Aligned and partnering with product groups, we use this vast tool belt to discover new opportunities and unmet use cases, influence and shape the product roadmap and prioritization, build data products and measure the impact on our community of players and developers.

Why Social?

Roblox is a highly social platform with billions of user connections we are actively building a variety of social products to nurture an engaging experience. This role will work closely with our Communities team to create world class community products that connect and deepen social interactions across our network of developers, brands, influencers, and users. You will leverage your technical and analytics chops to design experiments and product strategies to grow Roblox Communities, while contributing to connections, communications, social sharing, etc. This role will report directly into Senior Data Science leadership, and collaborate closely with our Director of Product and Senior Engineering / Design leadership. 

You Will:

• Inform, develop and execute on product strategies in service of Roblox Communities growth.
• Create and own data foundations, metrics, analytics and reporting tools. Design experiment and quasi-experimental measurement plans to evaluate Community products. 
• Partner closely with product and engineering teams to identify new product opportunities. 
• Communicate insights and discuss recommendations with cross function partners translating complex technical concepts into actionable insights.
• Collaborate and synergize with the rest of the social product team.

You Have:

• An Advanced or equivalent Degree in Computer Science, Applied Math, Physics, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, or related discipline.
• 4+ years of industry or equivalent experience in Data Science and Analytics
• 4+ years of experience using big data query/processing languages such as SQL, Hive, or Spark to transform/manipulate extensive datasets
• 2+ years of experience in designing experiments, ideally with exposure to causal inference methodologies.
• 2+ years of experience in one or more scripting languages such as Python or R
• Experience using data results and data storytelling to influence product teams and leaders

For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits as described on this page.

Annual Salary Range$217,040—$258,500 USD

Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).

Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process.