Product Design Program Manager, Roblox
$194.7-245.8k
+ Equity
More information about location
3 days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
Online gaming and entertainment platform
Job no longer available
Online gaming and entertainment platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$194.7-245.8k
+ 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
- 5+ years of professional experience managing multiple projects, resources, schedules and priorities across work streams, ensuring delivery of high-quality design solutions
- A track record of supporting creative teams and cross-functional partners
- You have worked directly on consumer product delivery
- Experience bridging the gap between design, product, and engineering
- You have a Bachelor's degree (HCI, Interaction Design, Software Engineering) or equivalent work experience
- Deep knowledge of collaboration tools (i.e. figma, lua, jira, confluence or comparable tools)
What the job involves
- As a Program Manager, you'll be a member of Design Operations
- We support product design by developing processes and programs that foster teamwork, creativity, efficiency, and job satisfaction
- In this role, you will successfully manage and deliver sophisticated product design initiatives, and efficiently prioritize
- You will communicate and coordinate across product, design, and engineering at multiple altitudes; storytelling and effective communication is core to your work
- You will collaborate with and steer agreement across multiple product and design teams at Roblox
- Collaborate, with a flexible toolkit to engage people and teams across the company
- Compose, implement, and document comprehensive and user-friendly processes
- Orchestrate and build team rituals that focus on tracking progress, execution, and communication across the program of work, ensuring teams are on track and work is high quality
- Dedicate yourself to creating products that are safe, inclusive and accessible
- A systems thinker, crafting, championing, coaching, and socializing processes in design and across the company
- Manage complexity and find efficient ways to work
- Manage expectations, and ensure partners have the insights to make decisions
- Innovate and stay on top of industry trends, and proactively creates tools and processes
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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