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 social platform with billions of friendships. Our company vision is to connect a billion users with safety and civility. Our Social teams are pioneering the way users communicate and co experience in the metaverse. As a Data Scientist within our Social team, you'll leverage your technical chops to influence Social product strategy.

You Will:

• Develop and propose strategies for improving communication and co-experience products on Roblox.
• Analyze feature adoption, engagement and monetization and highlight areas of opportunity.
• Conduct metric research to understand tradeoffs between voice engagement and safety and performance.
• Design and evaluate A/B tests autonomously, and drive our understanding of leverage in the context of experiments.
• Develop opportunity sizing models, metric targets, and own reporting and metric narratives shared with c-suite.
• Establish foundational metrics framework and reporting; partner with engineers to scale foundational datasets to drive insights

You Have:

• An Advanced or equivalent Degree in Computer Science, Applied Math, Physics, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, or another technical field
• 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, PostgreSQL, Hive, or Spark to transform/manipulate extensive datasets
• 4+ years of experience in one or more scripting languages such as Python or R
• Experience building a team from scratch as an individual contributor
• Experience working with content platforms, specifically user-generated content
• The ability to use analytics 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. Annual Salary Range $200,740—$253,430 USD

Roles that are based in our San Mateo, CA Headquarters are in-office Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional in-office on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).

You’ll Love:

• Industry-leading compensation package
• Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
• A rewarding 401k program
• Flexible vacation policy
• Roflex - Flexible and supportive work policy
• Roblox Admin badge for your avatar
• At Roblox HQ:
• Free catered lunches five times a week and several fully stocked kitchens with unlimited snacks
• Onsite fitness center and fitness program credit
• Annual CalTrain Go Pass

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 for all candidates during the interview process.