Senior Data Scientist Family Experience

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 were 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. Were 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 youll 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 organizations 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 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 FAMILY EXPERIENCE

Family Experience sits at the intersection of safety product and growth. The team is building systems that help parents engage confidently in their childs Roblox experience while also enabling access to important features that increasingly require parental consent in regulated markets. This role is an opportunity to shape a fast-evolving product area with meaningful user and business impact. You will help make parent linking and consent flows simpler improve parent engagement and perception and be a strategic leader in product direction that strengthens both trust and growth for families and regulators globally.

You Will:

• Shape the Family & Experiences roadmap with strategic data science guidance across parent linking consent and parent engagement.
• Identify and size the highest-impact levers to improve parent links engagement and consent rates.
• Design and evaluate features across onboarding linking verification consent and Family Hub experiences.
• Apply experimentation and causal inference to understand how parent engagement influences child and family outcomes.
• Define success metrics and measurement frameworks for launches funnels and long-term product health.
• Partner with Product Engineering Policy Legal and UX Research to turn ambiguous problems into clear decisions.
• Translate friction points in the parent journey into actionable product recommendations.
• Communicate insights to leadership and cross-functional partners to drive prioritization and tradeoff decisions.

You Have:

• 5 years of industry experience in data science economics analytics or machine learning engineering
• 2 years of experience using scripting languages (Python R) and big data query/processing languages and tools such as SQL Hive Spark and Airflow
• Knowledge of ML and Deep Learning either via formal training or industry experience
• Ability to apply creative first-principles reasoning to solve ambiguous problems
• Experience developing large-scale safety or moderation systems as well as experience with content platforms specifically user-generated content
• Advanced Degree and/or PhD in Statistics Computer Science Physics Applied Math Economics or other related quantitative fields