We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist to lead the methodological and strategic foundations for our Creator Economics systems. Roblox operates multiple two-sided marketplaces, from the Avatar Marketplace to in-experience economies. You will build the economic systems and measurement frameworks that inform how value flows through the platform, such as building price optimization systems, designing new rev-share models, and establishing the economics for new UGC category launches. You will serve as a technical leader driving the roadmap for our most critical developer and creator touchpoints.
Why Marketplace Economics?
- Real-world scale: Power millions of daily economic interactions across a complex, two-sided marketplace where millions of creators meet over 100 million daily active users.
- Complex markets, rich signals: Design economic systems and measurement frameworks that account for the nuances of a two-sided marketplace, social network effects, long-term user attachment, and supply response.
- Strategic ownership: Lead projects from scratch, translating ambiguous business and policy questions into rigorous quantitative frameworks that directly influence high-stakes company decisions on the economics of our Marketplace.
- Impact meets innovation: Partner with Product and Engineering to shape the future of the Roblox economy, building measurement solutions that optimize for long-term ecosystem health and growth.
You will:
- 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.
You have (at least some of) the following:
- 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
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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).
