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Senior Manager – Marketplace Data Science and Analytics
| Company | Roblox |
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| Location | San Mateo, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $316480 – $366350 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Master’s, PhD |
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| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- Advanced Degree and/or PhD in Economics, Statistics, Physics, Cognitive Science or other quantitative field
- 8+ years of relevant industry experience, preferably with background in platform business, marketplace design, matching markets, or pricing systems
- 3+ years managing technical and strategic data science teams
- Depth in causal inference statistics and methods
- Demonstrated ability to drive product innovation in an area as a thought leader
- Ability to apply creative first-principles reasoning to solve ambiguous problems
- Ability to communicate analytic results and data storytelling to influence engineering teams and leaders
Responsibilities
- Lead a small and mighty team of data scientists and economists to focus on marketplace design, marketplace optimization, and long-term company growth, including pricing, policy, reporting, modeling, and strategic analyses
- Build a world-leading, principled virtual item economy to increase earnings and creativity opportunity for our community
- Partner directly with Marketplace leadership (product+eng) to advance principled and performant economic designs
- Lead a data-informed strategy leveraging expertise in experimentation, mechanism design, econometrics, and causal inference methods
- Expand self-expression and identity through refinements that increase item creation, item quality, and market discovery
- Partner with the broader data science teams on shaping and iterating the roadmap for data science products/platform.
Preferred Qualifications
- Passion for our Roblox core values (*respect the community*, *we are responsible*, *take the long view*, and *get stuff done*)
