Senior Data Scientist, Marketplace Economics

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.

At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower a global community of creators and developers to build immersive experiences and a dynamic virtual economy. Our Data Science organization sits at the heart of this mission, delivering the strategic and causal insights that power pricing, market health, and creator success across all Economy surfaces.

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,…