Technical Lead Data Scientist, Roblox

Creator

$310.3-359.2k

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

SQL

Python

Airflow

Hadoop

Spark

Flink

Hive

Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in San Mateo, CA

Online gaming and entertainment platform

Job no longer available

Online gaming and entertainment platform

1001+ employees

B2CGamingEntertainmentCommunity

Job no longer available

$310.3-359.2k

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

SQL

Python

Airflow

Hadoop

Spark

Flink

Hive

Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in San Mateo, CA

1001+ employees

B2CGamingEntertainmentCommunity

Company mission

To connect a billion people with optimism and civility.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

BA/BS in Computer Science, Applied Math, Physics, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Financial Mathematics or other technical field
10+ years of industry experience in Data Science and Analytics
8+ years of prior industry experience in Product Analytics
8+ years experience in scripting languages for DS like Python or R
4+ years of experience using big data query/processing languages and tools such as Hive, Spark and Airflow
4+ years mentoring and/or managing data scientists
Experience promoting best practices and excellence across an analytics team
Experience developing a vision, roadmap, datasets, and tooling in a nascent area
Knowledge of statistics fundamentals to support experimental design and analysis
Experience with exploratory data analysis, data analysis to inform product design decisions, statistical analysis and testing, and machine learning model development
Passionate about data. You have the curiosity to continuously learn new techniques and tools to extract value from data
An excellent speaker. You understand that analysis must be presented in meaningful ways and participate in spirited discussions about the findings. You can explain technical concepts to executives and non-technical audiences and discuss appropriate tradeoffs
A leader that is invested in the success of others and has impact through mentorship and engagement with the community
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 using big data frameworks such as Spark, Hadoop or Flink
Experienced in experimentation and developing models to draw insights from data. You use experimentation, causal inference, regression techniques, data mining, and statistical techniques to create scalable solutions to solve difficult business problems. You understand when to apply the appropriate methodology to maximize impact

What the job involves

As a data scientist, you will be an important partner to our product and engineering teams in building a healthy Creator ecosystem, defining strategies that accelerate the growth of our creators, and identifying gaps in our content corpus (and how to fill them)
You'll partner with data scientists, product managers, engineers and leaders across the company to better understand our creators and the tools that best support their success
Be a strategic partner that uses data and insights to improve growth
Provide technical mentorship and expertise that multiplies the contributions of data scientists across the team
Accelerate product development through your understanding of the data and its potential
Access raw data, and then transform it, analyze it, and render it in a compelling way to guide product development
Define metrics to evaluate success and build dashboards to track progress
Evaluate A/B experiments to determine success of product feature launches
Influence how Roblox works with its players and its platform creators to accelerate creator velocity
Report to the Director, Data Scientist and Analytics

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

Top investors

25% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.8)

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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