Senior Data Scientist, Social Sharing
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Job Location:
San Mateo, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
13 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
You will be joining the Data Science and Analytics (DSA) team at Roblox and work with Moments and Social Sharing. Moments is Robloxs native content sharing and discovery product enabling users to capture share and engage with short-form videos and screenshots from their in-experience gameplay. This product will fundamentally shift how millions of users discover engage with and share Roblox experiences. The Sharing domain is at the heart of this transformation driving both user-generated content supply and social discovery and is a key lever for platform growth engagement and monetization.
You will:
- Work with senior ICs to develop and execute data-driven product strategies for Moments within Social Sharing partnering closely with Product Engineering and Design.
- Own and evolve the metrics analytics and reporting infrastructure for Moments and Sharing on engagement and monetization.
- Develop and maintain robust data pipelines and dashboards to support product health monitoring and deep-dive research.
- Design and analyze experiments (A/B tests quasi-experiments) to measure the impact of new features ranking algorithms and distribution changes.
- Drive insights into user behavior content supply/demand and the effectiveness of sharing features in driving discovery and platform values and track success for Moments.
- Contribute to the long-term vision for social content sharing and impact to overall Roblox ecosystem such as creator safety content discovery etc.
- You will also have the opportunity to work with cross-functional social DSA and product teams including connections communications and communities.
You have:
- 5 years of industry experience in data science analytics or a related field ideally with experience in social products content sharing or consumer platforms.
- Advanced degree in Computer Science Statistics Applied Math Engineering or a related discipline.
- Strong technical skills in SQL Python (or R) and experience with big data frameworks (e.g. Spark Hive).
- Experience designing and analyzing experiments with a solid grasp of causal inference and measurement best practices.
- Proven ability to translate complex data into actionable insights for product and engineering teams.
- Excellent communication skills with a track record of influencing product direction through data storytelling and cross-functional collaboration.
- Passion for building social products that drive meaningful connections and engagement.
- Prior work on creator ecosystems (Bonus)
- Experience with content recommendation feed ranking or personalization systems (Bonus)
- Familiarity with safety moderation or user-generated content challenges at scale. (Bonus)
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Laboratory Experience
- Mammalian Cell Culture
- Biochemistry
- Assays
- Protein Purification
- Research Experience
- Next Generation Sequencing
- Research & Development
- cGMP
- Cell Culture
- Molecular Biology
- Flow Cytometry
About Company
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!
