Senior Product Manager, Roblox
Creator Services
$229-280.5k
+ Equity
More information about location
3 days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
Online gaming and entertainment platform
Open for applications
Online gaming and entertainment platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$229-280.5k
+ 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
- A degree in a highly technical field like computer science, software engineering, or similar experience
- Product experience shipping, updating and maintaining cloud platform products
- Preferred Qualifications:
- 5+ years of product management experience in developer or multi-sided platforms, emphasizing cloud platform infrastructure, compute and scale with exposure to IaaS, PaaS and/or SaaS models
- Experience in cloud-driven game development facing platforms and ecosystems, with a passion for intuitive and helpful developer tools and APIs
- A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a similar technical field
- Exposure to cloud platform business models, experience understanding cost-side implications of product design, and revenue generation models (e.g. freemium monetization models)
- Technical Background: A Bachelor’s in Computer Science or Engineering is highly preferred, as they must engage deeply with engineering partners on technical system design and rate-limiting logic
- "API-First": Someone who has not just managed a backend, but has built the Open Cloud or public-facing API ecosystems that allow third parties to extend a platform
- Distributed Systems Expertise: A PM who understands the trade-offs of low-latency state management, memory optimization, and global data consistency—critical for 3D immersive environments
- Data-Literate: Beyond basic SQL, they should be able to define SLAs (Service Level Agreements) and "Indicators" that build developer trust in a cloud’s durability
- Technical background - we are looking for someone who can engage with XFN partners in eng across other teams, as well as creators
- Passion for Games: The perfect candidate will understand games as an enthusiast at least, and be able to empathize with how the tech above can enable game creation
What the job involves
- Stepping into the Senior Product Manager role in the Creator organization, you will drive the vision for the service platform that amasses an ecosystem of first-party and third-party options, joining the dots between the powerful infrastructure and products we are building as a company
- You’ll lead the strategy and creation of a roadmap for a range of foundational services to help drive our goal of creation of anything, anywhere, by anyone
- You’ll work with talented engineers, designers, analysts and cross-functional groups to bring this vision to life
- Help Roblox achieve a vision of a cloud platform delivering foundational services for co-experience creation from storage, communications, telemetry and future service use cases
- Lead a strategy and roadmap for Roblox’s Open Cloud API that enables developers and 3rd parties to extend Roblox in new and interesting ways using our foundational services, including leveraging this API to enable AI agentic building
- Building out a Roblox Cloud that both internal product teams and community creators can rely on to make next generation games and immersive experiences
- Taking the initiative to be transparent with creators about our service quality SLAs, building confidence in their durability
- Identifying the right levels of abstraction to truly hit developer needs - often a raw infrastructure product alone is less valuable than with an accompanying higher level API
- Gain understanding of user needs and industry trends through research, practical experience and deep engagement with top creators on Robox
- Write detailed product specifications that can be referred by team members for design and implementation
- Run the development of projects from ideation, planning, to launch by working with engineering partners, UX designers, marketing
- Help align vision, roadmap, and needs across executives, engineers, designers, and product team members
- Establish the Indicators for your products and improve the metrics through both incremental and revolutionary improvements
- You will report to the Senior Director of Product, Creator Content & Services and grow your career with a rocket ship company
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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