Product Design Director, Roblox
Creator Ecosystem
$432-492.9k
+ Equity
More information about location
3+ days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
Online gaming and entertainment platform
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Online gaming and entertainment platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$432-492.9k
+ Equity
More information about location
3+ days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect a billion people with optimism and civility.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of product design experience and leadership within world-class technology, entertainment, or gaming organizations
- Track record of delivering complex ecosystem level design solutions that drive success
- A 'Systems-First' brain. You see the ripples that a change in one API causes across the entire creator journey
- Experience partnering with research, data science, engineering, and policy/safety teams
- Exceptional taste and vision in visual, motion, prototyping, or 3D design for interactive experiences
- Exceptional verbal, visual, written communication, and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate complex creative and technical concepts to executives
- Deep empathy for Creators of all kinds (beginner to established studios) and passionate about shaping safe, inclusive, and delightful experiences
What the job involves
- As a Product Design Director (IC) at Roblox, you will be a visionary architect for the end-to-end Creator Ecosystem and core journeys
- You will operate at the critical intersection of a diverse ecosystem, balancing the intuitive needs of hobbyist creators with the high-octane, professional requirements of world-class game studios
- Reporting to the Senior Director of Creator Experiences and partnering directly with the Chief Creator Experience Officer, you will tackle our most complex, interconnected challenges
- Your mission is to identify where creative intent hits technical limits and bridge those gaps through systemic design
- You will drive cross-group influence across Studio, Creator Success, Game Solutions, and Content Platforms to unlock novel content and accelerate the pace of creation on a global scale
- As a senior design leader and individual contributor, you will collaborate with Product, Data, Engineering, and Research to ensure our ecosystem doesn't just deliver efficiency, but sets the new industry standard for creative tools
- You will serve as the voice of design for company-level initiatives, influencing executive leadership to define the future of high-craft, immersive creation
- Set design vision and strategy: define and communicate Creator Ecosystem centric goals, success metrics, roadmaps, and long-term direction
- Map the invisible services that define the creator's lifecycle on Roblox and define the core end-to-end journeys for critical workflow across the Creator Ecosystem
- Build partnerships across Product, Engineering, Content Design, and Research to deliver complex roadmaps and frameworks
- Champion experimentation, fast iteration, and data-driven decision making
- Drive innovation by staying ahead of trends
- Translate abstract ideas into actionable feature concepts and partner with designers to bring them to life, ensuring quality delivery from concept to launch
- Elevate design standards, patterns, and system adoption across the org; share best practices and coach others
- Inspire and mentor peer designers, raising the bar for craft
Our take
Online gaming may be a well-established space, but Roblox has distinguished itself as a leader by empowering its community to build, share, and profit from their own creations, turning game development into an accessible, rewarding ecosystem for millions of users.
In addition to standard games, the platform offers virtual worlds and other experiences to explore and interact with. Its platform provides an online ecosystem for millions to create, socialize, chat, and explore immersive experiences with friends. In fact, in the US its used by two-thirds of children aged 9 to 12.
While the platform does face scrutiny over users safety (particularly given its young audience) the company's efforts to strengthen parental controls and open dialogue through initiatives like its new Parents Council signal a growing commitment to addressing these challenges. At the same time, its financial performance and creator-focused investments underscore a business in very strong health. With record payouts to developers, an expanding older player base, and a platform that increasingly rewards creative talent, Roblox's trajectory remains one of innovation and impressive growth.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
25% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jan 2021
$520m
SERIES H
Feb 2020
$150m
SERIES G
Total funding: $922.8m
Company HQ
South San Mateo, San Mateo, CA
Leadership
David Baszucki
(Founder & CEO)Studied Electrical Engineering at Stanford before founding Knowledge Revolution in 1990, where they spent 9 years as CEO. They worked as VP of MSC.Software for 2 years, and started Roblox in 2005.
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