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Senior Data Scientist - Personalization
1 year ago
Every day, tens of millions of people from around the world come to Roblox to play, learn, work, and socialize in immersive digital experiences created by the community. Our vision is to build a platform that enables shared experiences among billions of users. This is what’s known as the metaverse: a persistent space where anyone can do just about anything they can imagine, from anywhere in the world and on any device. Join us and you’ll usher in a new category of human interaction while solving exceptional challenges that you won’t find anywhere else.
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 PERSONALIZATION?
As a Data Scientist in Personalization, you will drive strategy and insights on how we can provide a personalized experience that enables users to seamlessly engage with the metaverse, finding friends, customizing Avatars and matchmaking into deep, immersive experiences. You will contribute and lead other data scientists to analyze and understand how users interact with the homepage, search and discovery. You'll partner with data scientists, product managers, engineers and marketers across the company to better understand our players and builders, performing ad hoc analysis, creating dashboards, defining KPIs, applying models, and designing/analyzing A/B experiments.
You Are:
- Passionate about data. You have the curiosity and drive to learn new techniques and tools to extract value from data. You understand when to apply the appropriate methodology to maximize impact in a pragmatic fashion.
- A keen and deliberate thinker. You get excited when you encounter a challenging business opportunity with a significant upside potential. You bring your data-driven perspectives to drive business decisions.
- A strong communicator. You understand that analysis must be presented in meaningful ways and lead spirited discussions about the findings. You can explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences and discuss tradeoffs.
- An expert transforming data with SQL and a scripting language such as Python or R. You're experienced in crunching massive volumes of data and developing solutions to solve difficult business problems.
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.
- Own key metrics and identify causal levers to inform strategic investments.
- Build dashboards to understand root causes of changes in metrics.
- Evaluate A/B experiments to determine success of product feature launches.
- Drive personalized experiences for Roblox through data-driven insights.
Basic Qualifications:
- 7+ years of industry experience doing quantitative analysis
- 4+ years of experience using big data query/processing languages such as SQL, Hive or Spark to transform/manipulate very large datasets
- 4+ years of experience in one or more scripting languages such as Python or R
- 2+ years of experience in statistical modeling and machine learning
- BA/BS in Computer Science, Applied Math, Physics, Engineering, Statistics, Economics or other technical field
Preferred Qualifications:
- Advanced Degree in Computer Science, Applied Math, Physics, Engineering, Statistics, Economics or other technical field
- 10+ years of industry experience doing quantitative analysis
- 4+ years of experience in statistical modeling and machine learning
- Experience understanding the strengths and weaknesses of neural network models with a strong desire for explainability
- Ability to use analytics results 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
- Onsite fitness center and fitness program credit
- Annual CalTrain Go Pass
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