Senior Manager, Marketplace Data Science and Analytics
Senior Manager, Marketplace Data Science and Analytics
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WHY DATA SCIENCE & ANALYTICS
The Data Science & Analytics organizations mission is to increase our speed frequency and acumen of making decisions at scale by instilling a datainfluenced 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.
WHY MARKETPLACE
Roblox is building the largest online marketplace for virtual goods that enable and advance selfexpression and identity and offer an earning opportunity for a large creative community. This marketplace is a core part of democratizing creation and online identity. In this space as the Sr. Manager for Marketplace Data Science you will leverage your expertise in marketplace design analytics economic theory and causal inference to inform evaluate and lead the growth of the marketplace. You will lead in crafting longterm strategy consistent with economic theory and incentives and have your team lead in learning and implementation. You will collaborate with crossfunctional teams to develop and implement datainformed principledeconomics strategies that maximize the impact for our community. Additionally you will contribute more broadly in monetization operating at the intersection of the marketplace ads and ingame monetization. You will report to the Sr. Director of DS for Economy and Ads.
You Will:
- Lead a small and mighty team of data scientists and economists to focus on marketplace design marketplace optimization and longterm company growth including pricing policy reporting modeling and strategic analyses
- Build a worldleading principled virtual item economy to increase earnings and creativity opportunity for our community
- Partner directly with Marketplace leadership (producteng) to advance principled and performant economic designs
- Lead a datainformed strategy leveraging expertise in experimentation mechanism design econometrics and causal inference methods
- Expand selfexpression and identity through refinements that increase item creation item quality and market discovery
- Partner with the broader data science teams on shaping and iterating the roadmap for data science products/platform.
You Have:
- Advanced Degree and/or PhD in Economics Statistics Physics Cognitive Science or other quantitative field
- 8 years of relevant industry experience preferably with background in platform business marketplace design matching markets or pricing systems
- 3 years managing technical and strategic data science teams
- Passion for our Roblox core values (respect the community we are responsible take the long view and get stuff done) here
- Depth in causal inference statistics and methods
- Demonstrated ability to drive product innovation in an area as a thought leader
- Ability to apply creative firstprinciples reasoning to solve ambiguous problems
- Ability to communicate analytic results and data storytelling to influence engineering teams and leaders
Required Experience:
Senior Manager
Employment Type
Full Time
