Senior Data Scientist, Roblox
Analytical Data Product, Engine
$221.4-263.7k
+ Eligible for equity compensation
More information about location
3-5 days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
Online gaming and entertainment platform
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Online gaming and entertainment platform
1001+ employees
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$221.4-263.7k
+ Eligible for equity compensation
More information about location
3-5 days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect a billion people with optimism and civility.
Role
Who you are
- Minimum of 2 years of experience in analytical engineering, data engineering or similar role
- An advanced or equivalent degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics or a related discipline
- Experience with SQL, spark, python, airflow, and overall modern data stacks and data visualization
- Experience with data mining, warehousing and building ETL pipelines
- Experience in the systems domain and/or gaming industry is a strong plus
- Passionate for leveraging data solutions to drive decisions and optimize business performance
- Strive to write elegant and maintainable code, clear documentations and comfortable with picking up new technologies
- Strong product mindset and data intuition. Keen to apply analytical and data engineering skills to translate business problems into scalable engineering solutions
- An expert at 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 in distributed systems using frameworks such as Spark, Hadoop or Flink
- Motivated by impact. You find satisfaction in being able to point to direct contributions you've made to an organization. You recognize the inherent tradeoffs between further research/experimentation and productionization apply the appropriate methodology to maximize impact
- A strong 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 non-technical audiences and discuss appropriate tradeoffs
What the job involves
- 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 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
- This role will work very closely with Product Managers, Engineers and other partners, responsible for analytical data products that are critical in empowering businesses to rapidly identify opportunities and innovate on growth products and strategies
- In this role, you will partner closely with other data scientists to build analytical data products and machine learning models to drive growth efficiency. You will also report to Senior Data Science leadership on the team
- You Will:
- Design and build scalable data pipelines and solutions to empower rapid analytical decision making
- Be a key owner of data reliability and data quality across the Engine data science team
- Uplevel the team in terms of data craftsmanship, best practices, testing, quality guardrails, and bring new tools and technologies
- Perform dashboarding and data analysis to generate business insights and manage analytical data solution roadmap
- Collaborate with product manager and other data scientists to understand business goals and product needs
- Partner with different product teams to optimize user growth strategies through insights, strategy, and leadership
Our take
Online gaming may be a well-established space, but Roblox has distinguished itself as a leader by empowering its community to build, share, and profit from their own creations, turning game development into an accessible, rewarding ecosystem for millions of users.
In addition to standard games, the platform offers virtual worlds and other experiences to explore and interact with. Its platform provides an online ecosystem for millions to create, socialize, chat, and explore immersive experiences with friends. In fact, in the US its used by two-thirds of children aged 9 to 12.
While the platform does face scrutiny over users safety (particularly given its young audience) the company's efforts to strengthen parental controls and open dialogue through initiatives like its new Parents Council signal a growing commitment to addressing these challenges. At the same time, its financial performance and creator-focused investments underscore a business in very strong health. With record payouts to developers, an expanding older player base, and a platform that increasingly rewards creative talent, Roblox's trajectory remains one of innovation and impressive growth.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
25% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jan 2021
$520m
SERIES H
Feb 2020
$150m
SERIES G
Total funding: $922.8m
Company HQ
South San Mateo, San Mateo, CA
Leadership
David Baszucki
(Founder & CEO)Studied Electrical Engineering at Stanford before founding Knowledge Revolution in 1990, where they spent 9 years as CEO. They worked as VP of MSC.Software for 2 years, and started Roblox in 2005.
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