Roblox Senior Data Scientist role leading methodological and strategic foundations for Creator Economics systems at Roblox. Build economic systems and measurement frameworks for marketplace pricing and revenue models.
Responsibilities
Design Economic Systems: Drive the structural design of creator and curator incentives, including formulating revenue-share models that foster a thriving, balanced ecosystem.
Master Pricing & Supply Response: Architect models that evaluate price elasticity, marketplace clearing rates, and predict how creators (supply) respond to pricing shifts and new economic policies.
Spearhead UGC Category Launches: Lead the quantitative strategy for introducing new User-Generated Content (UGC) categories, establishing the foundational economics and incentive structures needed to spark market liquidity.
Apply Deep Causal Inference: Build rigorous observational and experimental causal inference solutions to isolate the true impact of market interventions on creator success and platform economics.
Drive Strategy: Partner with product and engineering leaders as a primary scientific advocate, providing unbiased measurement and insights to accelerate innovation and strategic prioritization.
Qualification
Annual Salary Range$263For US based roles only
Required
6+ years of industry or research experience in Data Science or Economics, specifically within large-scale UGC content platforms, pricing, marketplace mechanism design, or creator economies.
Deep Methodological Expertise in quantitative methodologies, causal inference (observational and experimental), and modern data stack tools (Python, R, SQL), alongside a deep theoretical understanding of econometrics and mechanism design.
Marketplace Intuition with a proven track record of working with large-scale transactional or platform data to analyze micro-level user behavior and isolate its impact on long-term outcomes and platform health.
Executive Communication & Leadership skills to distill high-dimensional economic problems into succinct, actionable narratives for non-technical executive audiences.
An Advanced Degree (Master’s or PhD) in Economics, Econometrics, Quantitative Finance, Statistics, Operations Research, Physics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field.
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
$263,670—$322,820 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.
