Senior Data Scientist, Marketplace Economics & Pricing

SportsTechJobs; San Mateo (CA); Presencial; USD 264.000 - 323.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Roblox is seeking a Senior Data Scientist in Marketplace Economics to design and optimize two-sided marketplace incentives across creator and curator ecosystems. You will build price-optimization and revenue-share models and shape the economics for new UGC categories, using rigorous causal inference to measure impact.

The role centers on translating complex business questions into quantitative frameworks, partnering with Product and Engineering to ensure scalable measurement and long-term

Formación

• 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).
• Marketplace Intuition with a track record of working with large-scale transactional data to analyze micro-level user behavior and long-term outcomes.
• Executive Communication & Leadership skills to distill complex economic problems for non-technical exec audiences.
• An Advanced Degree in a quantitative field.

Responsabilidades

• Design Economic Systems: Structure creator and curator incentives, revenue-share models to balance the ecosystem.
• Master Pricing & Supply Response: Model price elasticity, marketplace clearing, and supplier responses to pricing shifts.
• Spearhead UGC Category Launches: Define quantitative strategy for new UGC categories and market liquidity.
• Apply Deep Causal Inference: Build observational and experimental causal solutions to isolate interventions’ impact.
• Drive Strategy: Partner with product and engineering to provide unbiased measurement and insights for innovation.

Conocimientos

Data Science

Economics

Causal Inference

Python

R

SQL

Econometrics

Mechanism Design

Educación

Master’s or PhD in Economics, Econometrics, Quantitative Finance, Statistics, Operations Research, Physics, Computer Science, or related quantitative field

Herramientas

Python

R

SQL

Descripción del empleo

Roblox is seeking a Senior Data Scientist in Marketplace Economics to design and optimize two-sided marketplace incentives across creator and curator ecosystems. You will build price-optimization and revenue-share models and shape the economics for new UGC categories, using rigorous causal inference to measure impact.

The role centers on translating complex business questions into quantitative frameworks, partnering with Product and Engineering to ensure scalable measurement and long-term