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, we’re 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.We’re 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 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.

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 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 child’s 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

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 benefits as described on this page .

Annual Salary Range$221,380—$263,670 USD

Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).

Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process.

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.