Data Scientist- Creator Content

Key Skills

C Programming, C++, Cloud computing, Data science techniques, Java Programming, Machine learning techniques, MATLAB Programming, Python Programming, PyTorch, R Programming, Scala Programming, SQL, TensorFlow

Job Description

WHY DATA SCIENCE & ANALYTICS?

The Data Science & Analytics organization's mission is to increase our speed, frequency and acumen of 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 teams, we use this 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 ROBLOX CREATOR CONTENT?

The Creator Content team's mission is to make user generated content universally accessible and useful. We are building a scalable and secure content platform which provides the best content ingestion and access experience in the world. By working on scoped problems such as content suitability and usability of content creation workflows, you will directly unlock growth potential for our creator community. As a data scientist, you will be an important partner to our product and engineering teams to shape the future of Roblox. You will partner with data scientists, product managers, engineers and leaders across the company to better understand our players and builders, performing ad hoc analysis, creating dashboards, defining KPIs, applying models and designing A/B experiments. You will help Roblox innovate as a game creation and social co-playing platform, break new grounds for the gaming industry and data science.

You Will:

• Reporting to the Manager of Data Science, you will accelerate product development through your understanding of the underlying data and your ability to partner with product and technical leaders to provide insights that improve growth.
• Access raw data, and then transform it, analyze it, and render it in a compelling way--all using a custom analytics tool kit built from state-of-the-art open-source libraries.
• Build dashboards to understand causes of changes in metrics.
• Accelerate product development through the application of models to improve growth and improve the product experience.
• Evaluate A/B experiments to determine success of product feature launches.
• Influence how Roblox works with its players and its platform developers to accelerate creator velocity.

You Are:

• Passionate about data. You have the curiosity and self-drive to learn new techniques and tools to extract value from data. You have a degree in Statistics, Economics, Computer Science or other relevant field.
• An effective communicator. You understand that analysis must be presented in meaningful ways and engage in spirited discussions about the findings. You have the ability to explain technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
• A capable statistician. You understand the value of characterizing data by its distribution. Covariance, Bias, and Conditional Probability are concepts that you rely on every day.
• An expert transforming data with SQL and a scripting language such as Python or R. You're experienced in automating efforts and crunching massive volumes of data.
• Experienced in developing models to draw insights from data. You use regression techniques, data mining, and other statistical techniques to create new, scalable solutions to solve difficult business problems. You understand when to apply the appropriate methodology to maximize impact in pragmatically.

Basic Qualifications:

• BA/BS in Computer Science, Applied Math, Physics, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Financial Mathematics or other technical field
• 2+ years of industry experience in analytics
• 2+ years experience in scripting languages for DS like Python or R
• 6+ months of experience using big data query/processing languages and tools such as SQL, Hive, Spark and Airflow
• Experience with SQL flavors for data querying

Preferred Qualifications:

• 4+ years of prior industry experience in Product Analytics
• Knowledge of statistics fundamentals to support experimental design and analysis
• Experience with exploratory data analysis, statistical analysis and testing, and machine learning model development

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
• Onsite fitness center and fitness program credit
• Annual CalTrain Go Pass

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

$212,780—$253,430 USD

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