Senior Product Operations Manager, Roblox
$198.4-236.3k
+ 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
$198.4-236.3k
+ 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
- 7+ years of experience in project or program management, ad tech integration, or gaming operations
- Deep understanding of F2P game economies, monetization strategies, and live service operations
- Hands-on experience implementing monetization or ad products and optimizing for both engagement and revenue
- Proven success collaborating across engineering, product, and business functions to deliver scalable developer solutions
- A data-driven mindset with the ability to translate insights into actionable recommendations
- Excellent communication skills, bridging technical and non-technical audiences effectively
- Experience supporting developer communities and driving adoption of new technologies
- Understanding of SQL with the ability to put together your own dashboards
Desirable
- Familiarity with monetization and ad tech ecosystems, including APIs, SDKs, and integration workflows
- Working knowledge of game engines
- Experience with performance monitoring tools and dashboards to optimize monetization performance
- Ability to analyze gameplay and economy data to ensure monetization and ad products enhance player experience
What the job involves
- As the Senior Product Operations Manager, you’ll drive the enablement, onboarding, and optimization strategies for developers integrating monetization, growth, and advertising solutions, such as rewarded video (RV) ads into their free-to-play (F2P) gaming experiences
- You’ll combine business development, operational, and technical expertise across game monetization, scalable ad tech, and developer enablement to help creators build sustainable, player-first economies
- You’ll work closely with engineering, product, and business teams to enhance the developer experience, improve ad performance, and simplify integration workflows
- Your impact will extend across the ecosystem as developers adopt new monetization products and ad formats that boost player engagement and unlock new revenue opportunities
- Empower Developers - Guiding creators on best practices for implementing monetization, growth, and ad solutions that enhance player experience and drive sustainable revenue
- Accelerate Adoption - Designing programs that encourage adoption of new monetization and ad products through education, workshops, and incentives
- Partner Across Teams - Collaborating with Product, Engineering, and Marketing to identify developer needs, influence product roadmaps, and ensure seamless implementation of monetization and growth tools
- Drive Continuous Improvement - Monitoring key performance metrics to identify opportunities that improve monetization performance, optimize integrations, and elevate developer satisfaction
- Advocating for Developers - Representing developer perspectives to shape the future of monetization, growth, and advertising on Roblox
- Lead enablement and onboarding for developers integrating monetization, growth, and ad products, ensuring a scalable and frictionless experience
- Partner with engineering teams to simplify API implementation and expand self-service tools for broader product adoption
- Provide strategic guidance on incorporating monetization and ad products, such as rewarded video into gameplay loops to balance engagement and revenue
- Develop, document, and share best practices that help developers create meaningful, player-first monetization experiences
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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