Senior Data Scientist, Roblox
Social Communications
$258.5-316.5k
+ Equity
More information about location
Office located in San Mateo, CA
Online gaming & entertainment platform
Posted today
Online gaming & entertainment platform
1001+ employees
Posted today
$258.5-316.5k
+ Equity
More information about location
Office located in San Mateo, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help connect and bring together people from around the world through play.
Role
Who you are
- An Advanced or equivalent Degree in Computer Science, Applied Math, Physics, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, or another technical field
- 6+ years of industry or equivalent experience in Data Science and Analytics
- 6+ years of experience using big data query/processing languages such as SQL, PostgreSQL, Hive, or Spark to transform/manipulate extensive datasets
- 6+ 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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 Senior Data Scientist within our Social team, you'll focus on building and scaling industry-leading Communication features
- Develop and execute strategies for improving communication and co-experience products on Roblox
- Design experiment and quasi-experimental measurement plans to evaluate Communication products
- Conduct metric research to understand tradeoffs between social feature engagement against safety and device performance
- 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
Our take
While online gaming is no longer a revolutionary concept, Roblox has established itself as a leader in the industry by creating a gaming toolbox that encourages quality game creation, which it pays developers for.
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.
The experiences on the platform are made by Roblox's over three million creators, and are available on a range of devices from PC to Xbox to Oculus, and more. The company has grown at an impressive rate, and has been keen to adopt new developments in the tech world, for example with its real-time AI translation for players to interact outside their native tongue.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jan 2021
$520m
SERIES H
Feb 2020
$150m
SERIES G
Total funding: $922.8m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 401k
- Flexible vacation policy
- Roflex - Flexible and supportive work policy
- Roblox Admin badge for your avatar
- 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
Company HQ
South San Mateo, San Mateo, CA
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Leadership
David Baszucki
(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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