Senior Data Scientist, Creator Platform

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. WHY DATA SCIENCE & ANALYTICS? The Data Science & Analytics organization's mission is to increase our speed, frequency, and acumen of making decisions at scale by instilling a data-influenced approach to building products. We cover a wide area of the data spectrum including analytical data engineering, product analytics, experimentation, causal inference, statistical modeling, and machine learning. Aligned and partnering with product verticals, we use this extensive toolbelt to discover new opportunities and unmet use cases, influence and shape the product roadmap and prioritization, build data products, and measure impact on our community of players and creators. WHY CREATOR PLATFORM? At Roblox, the Creator Platform team is responsible for the systems that determine how creators build, publish, earn, and thrive on the platform. As a Senior Data Scientist, you will be the primary strategic data partner across some of the most business-critical and safety-sensitive areas in the creator ecosystem — including creator reputation, publish gating, anti-abuse, rewards, data foundations, and AI enablement. This is a high-ownership, high-autonomy role. You will work across trust & safety, measurement, data infrastructure, and AI-enabled analytics — owning end-to-end problem framing, model development, and executive-facing recommendations in areas that directly shape platform integrity and creator success. You Will: Own Creator Reputation & Publish Gating: Serve as the primary DS owner for the Creator Reputation Model and Good Standing score — ML systems that estimate creator trustworthiness and gate publishing access for new or alt accounts before they accumulate creator history. Maintain and improve the auto-approval model for DevEx requests. Build & Maintain Anti-Abuse Models: Lead anti-abuse modeling for creator rewards and creator analytics, ensuring the integrity of creator incentive systems and identifying bad actors at scale. Drive Creator Data Foundations: Serve as DRI for core creator data infrastructure — documenting all key creator tables, designing trustworthy data contracts, and building the semantic layers and analytical frameworks that enable reliable self-serve analysis across the team. Enable Agentic & AI-Powered Analytics: Lead DS AI enablement for the creator org — building skills, evaluation frameworks, and scalable AI-enabled workflows that reduce analyst toil and elevate the team's analytical capacity. Own Creator Analytics Reporting: Define top-line success metrics and own measurement for creator analytics, providing leadership with a clear, consistent view of creator health and platform performance. Support Creator Store & Select: Provide coverage for Creator Store safety scores, store metrics, and asset usage analysis. Serve as a dedicated DS partner for Select, helping shape how we open access to early-stage creators as creator reputation becomes a core input to eligibility. Create Zero-to-One Frameworks: Define analytical standards and measurement approaches for new, ambiguous product areas — translating complex technical systems into interpretable, movable metrics for product and engineering leadership. You Have: Seniority & Breadth: High Senio…