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Senior Manager, Data Science & Analytics - Creator Platform

WHY DATA SCIENCE & ANALYTICS?

The Data Science & Analytics organization's mission is to increase our speed, frequency and accuracy 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 teams, we use this 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 CREATOR PLATFORM?

Reporting to the Director of Data Science for Content Supply, you will lead Data Science and Analytics for 4 product teams: Creator Services, Creator Resources, Creator Content, and Creator Marketplace.

Creator Services: Creates infrastructure and services for creators to build, manage, and grow immersive experiences in the Metaverse. The DSA challenges include building models that translate experiences, product analytics for the UIs developers use to gain insights about their experiences, and optimizing the efficiency of developer data and CPU usage.

Creator Resources: Focus on resources for developers including documentation, sites that help developers connect and find other developers to collaborate with, and forums for developers to communicate and share information.

Creator Content: Makes user-generated content universally accessible and useful. Product analytics for this team will provide insights to help build the best content ingestion, access, and control experience in the world. This team also provides functionality such as ratings and personalization tools, to help creators build content that is suitable for the user.

Creator Marketplace: Fosters a safe ecosystem where creators exchange assets to accelerate the development of engaging experiences. The DSA challenges include providing utility through search and discovery where developers can easily find useful assets that improve creation efficiency and experience quality, incentives and pricing for creators to contribute a diverse range of high-quality content to the Marketplace, and malicious asset detection that supports a trustworthy marketplace where assets are safe and behave as expected.

As the Sr DSA Manager aligned with these teams, you will oversee pricing algorithms, building models, providing insights, evaluating product launches, experimentation, identifying trends to guide strategy, and much more. You will partner with engineers, product managers, designers and other disciplines to make the Roblox developer platform capable of bringing whatever our developers imagine to life in the Metaverse.

You Are:

• You will recruit, build, and grow a strong team of data scientists who will drive multiple projects.
• Passionate about scaling decision-making. You have the curiosity to continuously learn new techniques and tools to extract value from data. You have a degree in Math, Statistics, Computer Science or other relevant field.
• You understand that performing decisions at scale raises a plethora of questions. You will navigate the 10,000 foot level with ease while being able to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences and discuss appropriate tradeoffs.
• Not afraid to occasionally get hands-on.
• You stay knowledgeable about the latest progress in the fields of computer vision, NLP, speech/audio and personalization. You partner with the leaders in the industry to make progress in the fields.
• You understand when to apply the appropriate methodology, tool, framework or more to maximize impact.

You Will:

• Oversee a set of core metrics and accompanying product playbook to drive impact.
• Partner with a suite of VP/Director-level partners in product management and engineering to influence product vision and roadmap, prioritizing the most impactful data science projects.
• Oversee the measurement of top-line metrics and product launches for Developer platform products.
• Provide direction to build and improve products for Roblox Developers.
• Grow a small team to 10+ DSA across multiple projects with skills ranging across product analytics, experimentation, and modeling.
• Coach Tech Leads and Managers, and cultivate a strong bench within the team.

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years of industry experience in data science
• 3+ years of experience managing data science and analytics teams of 5 or more independent contributors
• 2+ years of experience in statistical modeling and machine learning
• 3+ years of experience using big data query/processing languages such as SQL, Hive or Spark to transform/manipulate very large datasets
• 3+ years of experience in one or more scripting languages such as Python or R
• BA/BS in Computer Science, Applied Math, Physics, Engineering, Statistics, Economics or other technical field

Preferred Qualifications:

• 8+ years of industry experience in data science.
• 5+ years of experience managing data science and analytics teams.
• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Applied Math, Physics, Engineering, Statistics, Economics or other technical field.
• 2+ years of industry experience in analytics focused on enhancing products and discovering opportunities.
• 2+ years of experience in a fast-growing company, such as the tech sector.
• Experience working with platforms offering infrastructure-as-a-service or improving infrastructure efficiency
• Experience with search, ranking, discovery or recommendation systems, or pricing and fraud detection.
• Use data storytelling to influence product teams and leaders.
• Experience doing research, building cutting-edge technology, or working on complex technical projects.