Senior Data Scientist - App Experience
San Mateo, CA, United States
Roblox
Roblox is the ultimate virtual universe that lets you create, share experiences with friends, and be anything you can imagine. Join millions of people and discover an infinite variety of immersive experiences created by a global community!Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators.
At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there.
A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.
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 verticals, we use this extensive toolbelt 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 APP EXPERIENCE?
The AppPlayer Experience team main goal is to provide a cohesive and delightful user experience across the entire consumer-facing app. You will work across multiple teams and functions to understand how the broader player ecosystem operates, and how we can improve it. You'll leverage statistics, analytics, and experiments to develop and drive the strategic direction of your partner UX, UXR, Product, and Engineering teams that are missioned to elevate the Roblox experience by accelerating the Roblox app strategy through product architecture, and influence decisions on improving app performance & reliability, navigation, visual architecture, and data integrity. app performance & reliability, data integrity, navigation, and visual architecture
You Are:
- Passionate about data. You use novel techniques and tools to extract value from data. You understand when to apply the appropriate methodology to maximize impact. You have a degree in Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, or other relevant fields.
- A strong communicator. You understand that analysis must be presented in meaningful ways and lead spirited discussions about the findings. You have the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences and discuss appropriate tradeoffs.
- 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 developing models to draw insights from data and automate decisions. You use regression techniques, data mining, and statistical techniques to create new, scalable solutions to solve difficult business problems. You understand when to apply the appropriate methodology to maximize impact. You are comfortable throughout different phases of data product development and can take a project from ideation to deployment.
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 drive 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 the root causes of changes in metrics.
- Evaluate A/B experiments to determine the success of product feature launches.
- Influence how Roblox provides a better experience for the community of players and developers.
Basic Qualifications
- 3+ 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
- BA/BS in Computer Science, Applied Math, Physics, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Financial Mathematics or other technical field
Preferred Qualifications:
- PhD in Computer Science, Applied Math, Physics, Engineering, Statistics, Economics or other technical field
- 2+ years of industry experience in a leadership role collaborating with cross-functional partners
- 4+ years of experience in fast-paced environment or fast-growing company, such as the tech sector
- Interest and past experience leading and mentoring others as an individual contributor
- Experience working with infrastructure teams and content platforms, particularly user-generated content
- Ability to communicate analytics results, model outputs, and data storytelling to influence product teams and leaders
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
Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
Tags: A/B testing Airflow Architecture Big Data Causal inference Computer Science Data Mining Economics Engineering Flink Hadoop Machine Learning Mathematics Open Source PhD Physics Python R Spark SQL Statistical modeling Statistics UX
Perks/benefits: Career development Equity Flex hours Flex vacation Health care Unlimited paid time off
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