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Posted 6 hours agoSenior Data Scientist - Consumer Frontend
at roblox
San Mateo United States, United StatesOn-site
Responsibilities
- Define and measure the success of Roblox’s information architecture, navigation systems, and core user experiences.
- Develop metrics and frameworks that quantify navigation efficiency, information discoverability, user friction, and overall UX quality.
- Identify opportunities to improve how users discover content, navigate between surfaces, and accomplish their goals, and translate those insights into product strategy and UX improvements.
- Establish decision-making frameworks for evaluating trade-offs across user journeys, surfaces, and product objectives.
- Design rigorous approaches to measurement in environments where traditional experimentation may be challenging.
- Perform deep-dive analyses and build scalable measurement frameworks that enable teams to monitor UX health, identify regressions, uncover emerging opportunities, and make data-informed decisions at scale. You Have:
Requirements
- A career at Roblox means you’ll 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.
- We cover a wide area of the data spectrum including analytical data engineering, product analytics, experimentation, causal inference, statistical modeling and machine learning.
- Consumer Frontend’s team mission is to deliver the frontend architecture, components, libraries, navigation patterns, and core UI necessary for a high-quality, performant, intuitive, and observable consumer user
- experience for gaming and all future use cases.
- One of the focus areas is UX Excellence through Standardization, where the goal is to maintain a comprehensive library of high-quality components and navigation patterns that ensure a consistent and intuitive
- This includes helping define and evaluate foundational information architecture, navigation systems, and cross-surface user experiences, while also contributing to the measurement strategy for emerging AI-enabled workflows that accelerate how user experiences are designed, built, tested, and iterated.
- Develop a deep understanding of user journeys, navigation behaviors, and user intent across the Roblox app.
- An advanced degree in Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, Computer Science, Economics, or a related quantitative field.
- experience in Data Science or a related quantitative discipline, preferably in consumer-facing products or consumer applications.
- experience working with large-scale datasets and proficiency in SQL and Python/R.
- Demonstrated ability to independently drive ambiguous, high-impact problem spaces, applying first-principles thinking to develop novel frameworks and solutions. •
- Exceptional communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to distill complex, high-dimensional problems into clear, actionable insights for both technical and executive audiences.
Experience
- 5+ years of industry
Benefits
- Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device.
- For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below.
- The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand.
- Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range.
- This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.
- All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for
- Annual Salary Range $263,670 — $322,820 USD
- For US based roles only, please note the Company may not be able to employ candidates for this role who have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.
Additional details
- 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, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any
- We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there.
- 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.
- 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.
- This area is pivotal to Roblox’s long-term success, directly impacting user engagement, retention, and the overall quality of the consumer experience.
- You will define KPIs and measurement frameworks for navigation efficiency, content discoverability, user friction, and UX quality, and leverage analytics, experimentation, and statistical rigor to influence product decisions and drive continuous improvements to the usability and effectiveness of the Roblox app. You Will:
- Help teams understand the downstream effects of navigation and information architecture changes, balancing local optimizations with the health and effectiveness of the broader consumer experience.
- Leverage experimentation, causal inference, and statistical modeling to evaluate platform-wide initiatives and cross-surface UX investments.
- Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Design, and Data Science leaders across Consumer Apps and adjacent organizations to influence product strategy and shape the future of how users navigate and interact with Roblox.