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Data Scientist - App Experience

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 groups, we use this vast tool belt to discover new opportunities and unmet use cases, influence and shape the product roadmap and prioritization, build data products and measure the impact on our community of players and developers.

WHY EXPERIENCE PLATFORM ?

The Experience Platform team enables the efficient creation of universal, high quality, and performant user experiences across a family of apps. The team oversees cross-platform user-facing UI and engineer/developer-facing UI systems.

You will collaborate with a variety of teams to understand how the broader user ecosystem operates, and how we can improve it. You'll leverage statistics, analytics, and experiments to shape the strategic direction of your partner UX, UXR, Product, and Engineering teams that are missioned to elevate the Roblox experience. you will have a direct and pivotal impact on influencing decisions related to the enhancement of core user experiences, architecture, performance & reliability of the Roblox app.

You Will:

• Develop and drive strategies for improving user experiences across a family of apps
• Accelerate product development through your understanding of the user behavior data, and your ability to partner with product and technical leaders to provide insights that inspire innovation and improve the product experience
• Design and evaluate A/B experiments to determine the success of product feature launches
• Establish foundational reporting; partner with engineers to scale foundational data sets to drive insights
• Build statistical, data mining, and machine learning models
• Report to one of the leaders in the Data Science - App Experience space.

You Have:

• 4+ years of industry experience in Data Science and Analytics
• 2+ years of experience using big data query/processing languages such as SQL, PostgreSQL, Hive, or Spark to transform/manipulate extensive datasets
• 2+ years of experience in one or more scripting languages such as Python or R
• Advanced degree or BA/BS in Computer Science, Applied Math, Physics, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, or other technical fields
• Experience working with infrastructure teams and content platforms, specifically user-generated content
• The ability to use analytics results and data storytelling to influence product teams and leaders

You Are:

• Passionate about data. You are excited to learn new techniques and tools to extract value from data.
• A strong communicator. You understand that analysis must be presented in meaningful ways and engage in spirited discussions about the findings. You can explain technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
• 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.
• Experienced in developing models to draw insights from data. You use regression, data mining, and other statistical techniques to create new, scalable solutions to solve challenging business problems. You understand when to apply the appropriate methodology to maximize impact pragmatically.