Senior Talent Business Partner, Roblox

• Progressive experience with 6+ years of full-lifecycle technical recruiting experience in a fast-paced environment, with a focused track record in Technical or University Recruiting
• Proven ability to manage high-volume pipelines, delivering quality results while championing a best-in-class candidate experience
• Proven capability to use data to drive decisions; strong proficiency in understanding recruiting data models, measuring ROI, and influencing strategy, ideally within a globally-recognized tech company (e.g., AI/ML, SaaS, Gaming, or similar competitive sectors)
• Experience acting as a strategic thought partner to technical leadership — bringing structured insights on global AI/ML talent dynamics and shaping long-term hiring strategies
• A strong track record of influencing stakeholders and solving complex recruiting challenges with creativity and innovation
• ML/AI Events and Conference strategy and engagement preferred

Desirable

• As the Senior Talent Business Partner - AI/ML PhD on the Early Careers Recruiting team, you will be a driver for cultivating and converting the next generation of exceptional AI/ML technical talent
• We’re looking for a PhD Recruiting expert to support Roblox’s ML and AI engineering growth as well as create and scale programs that are not just operationally excellent, but are a competitive differentiator, modeling the caliber of talent acquisition found at the world's most ambitious technology and AI companies
• Own the end-to-end technical recruiting pipeline for PhD AI/ML roles including full-time and internships, helping to define the process as a scalable, distributed system that must maintain a high quality bar under extreme volume
• Partner with engineering and data leaders to define role scopes, assess capability gaps, and shape hiring strategy across emerging domains like generative AI, LLMs, NLP, computer vision, and infrastructure automation
• Relentlessly monitor recruiting health metrics to translate complex data into actionable insights and strategic recommendations with hiring partners
• Act as a talent business partner to executive leadership, hiring managers, and cross-functional teams (PBPs, People Analytics, Engineering) to forecast needs, secure resources, and influence hiring velocity and quality
• Design, implement, and continuously refine scalable, end-to-end PhD hiring programs that deliver an outstanding, human-centered candidate experience from first touchpoint through conversion and onboarding
• Partner with leaders and cross functional partners to execute the PhD strategy including ML conferences, campus strategy, academic collaborations, and creative outreach strategies
• Serve as a subject matter expert on AI/ML PhD market trends and innovative sourcing techniques
• Ensure that operational excellence is at the forefront of your process - influencing and improving processes to help the team work smarter, faster, and at scale