Creative Director, Roblox
$230.7-269.6k
+ equity
More information about location
3+ days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
Online gaming & entertainment platform
Posted today
Online gaming & entertainment platform
1001+ employees
Posted today
$230.7-269.6k
+ 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
- 12+ years of experience in creative roles with 3–5 years in a leadership or management position, ideally at a brand, agency, or production studio. You have a portfolio or body of work that demonstrates strong creative judgment and range
- Proven experience managing multidisciplinary teams (designers, copywriters, editors) — not just overseeing output, but actively developing talent and elevating the quality of work across the team
- A deep, practiced understanding of design, copywriting, and video editing. You don’t need to be an expert in all three, but you need to know what excellent looks like in each and give feedback that makes the work better
- Experience building and scaling creative workflows and operational systems — you know how to bring structure to creative chaos without killing the energy
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills. You’re comfortable presenting creative work, advocating for your team’s recommendations, and navigating feedback with confidence and composure
- Experience managing vendor and agency relationships, with the ability to brief, direct, and quality-check external partners to the same standard as in-house work
- High fluency in creative tools including Figma, Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, Premiere Pro), Google Slides, and Keynote
- An obsession with craft: You hold yourself and your team to a high standard. You recognize that being detail-oriented is a badge of honor, and that going the extra mile to produce top-tier work even on tight timelines is non-negotiable
- A thoughtful, resilient mindset. You understand that creative work is iterative, feedback is a gift, and the ability to operate nimbly in ambiguity is what separates good managers from great ones
- A self-starter mentality: You’re comfortable owning your domain end-to-end, managing competing priorities, and making smart decisions without needing to be told what to do next
What the job involves
- Roblox is looking for a Creative Director to lead the daily creative output and operations of our in-house studio team
- This is a pivotal, hands-on leadership role for someone who is equal parts creative leader and operational thinker, someone who can steer creative direction, build scalable systems, and ensure work moves seamlessly from brief to delivery without sacrificing craft
- You will oversee and mentor a multidisciplinary team of art directors, copywriters, and designers — raising the bar on quality while keeping the engine running
- This means you’re as comfortable giving sharp creative feedback as you are triaging a packed production queue
- You have an advanced understanding of design, copy, and video editing, and you know what great looks like across all of them
- Your ability to coordinate creative workflows, obsess over details, and lead with a collaborative mentality will be integral as we bring millions of people together through shared experiences
- Steer, review, and approve creative work across design, copy, and video — ensuring everything that ships meets the highest standards of quality, brand alignment, and strategic relevance
- Build and refine scalable creative workflows, processes, and systems that enable operational excellence and speed of delivery without sacrificing craft
- Manage incoming briefs, set priorities, and balance workloads so that your team can focus on doing their best work within agreed-upon timelines
- Proactively identify creative and operational bottlenecks, removing obstacles before they slow your team down
- Mentor and develop your direct reports through continuous feedback, coaching, and performance management setting a high bar and helping your team reach it
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional partners across marketing, product, and business teams to ensure creative work is strategically aligned and on-brand across all surfaces
- Champion a team culture rooted in diversity, inclusion, creative courage, and mutual respect
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.
The platform has faced scrutiny over user safety, but responded by strengthen parental controls and launching initiatives like its "Parents Council". This move to address these issues, atop its strong financial performance and record payouts to developers, showcase Roblox's trajectory as 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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