Data Scientist / Senior Data Scientist - Ecosystem and Learning Platform - Roblox

WHY DATA SCIENCE & ANALYTICS?

The Data Science & Analytics organization's mission is to increase our speed, frequency, and acumen in making decisions at scale by instilling a data-influenced approach to building products. 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 verticals, we use this extensive tool belt to discover new opportunities and unmet use cases, influence and shape the product roadmap and prioritization, build data products, and measure impact on our community of players and developers.

WHY ECOSYSTEM AND LEARNING PLATFORM?

The mission of the Ecosystem and Learning Platform Data Science team is to empower our data science organization and drive data-informed decision-making at scale. We do so by collaborating within data science and cross-functional partners to solve complex business problems that span multiple areas of the Roblox ecosystem, develop scalable solutions and tools, and advance data science methodologies. Central to our mission is an experimentation and insights platform that provides comprehensive solutions for company-wide experimentation needs, integrates diverse data sources, and offers scalable, accessible data science products that yield actionable insights for product areas across Roblox.

As a member of this team, you will be essential to ensuring the successful execution of hundreds of experiments on the platform. This is an exciting opportunity to collaborate with product data science partners to bring structure and innovative solutions to complex business problems. In the process, you will contribute to building cutting-edge methodologies and tools that advance data science within our company and set industry standards. If you are a self-starter who is curious and passionate about leveraging big data to create tangible business value and thrive in a dynamic, collaborative, and innovative environment, this is the place for you!

You Will:

• Provide expert support and guidance for vertical data science teams in experiment design, analysis, and troubleshooting. Proactively find opportunities and implement solutions to streamline analytic operations in experimentation.
• Collaborate with DS and Product teams to develop innovative and scalable solutions to measure ecosystem health, forecast business performance, and identify and quantify complex cause-effect relationships within Roblox ecosystem.
• Promote and uphold a high bar of technical excellence, and enable adoption of technical advances in data science.
• Work closely with engineering and product partners to build scalable data science systems and tools.
• Own the implementation and maintenance of DS self-serve tools, and proactively find opportunities to scale experimentation, causal inference, and analytics insights through tooling and methodology.
• Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders to solve problems and influence decisions.
• Cultivate strong partnerships with the data science teams, engineering and product partners.

You Have:

• An Advanced Degree (MSc or PhD) in Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, Applied Math, Physics, Engineering, or other quantitative fields.
• 2+ years in developing and applying statistical methods, causal inference techniques, experiment design and analysis, time series modeling, or machine learning.
• 2+ years of experience in data science or related fields.
• 2+ years of experience using big data query/processing languages such as SQL, Hive or Spark to transform/manipulate large datasets.
• 2+ years of experience in one or more scripting languages, such as Python or R.
• Demonstrated ability to lead or build project areas from scratch.