Director of Product (Communication)
1 month ago
Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators.
At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there.
A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.
As the Product leader for Communication, you'll define the future of Communication in 3D spaces, in environments that help people connect and co-experience together, not just passively interact. In this role you will be responsible for all mediums of communication like text, voice, avatar communication, and co-experiencing across the Roblox Platform.
Roblox is well positioned to build the standards for accessing, navigating, communicating, and interacting within the metaverse, supporting everything users can do on Roblox: communicate, play, learn, work, etc.
The role reports to the Sr. Director of Product, Social and is based in San Mateo, CA.
You Will:
- Define multi year vision & strategy for Communication products - all mediums, expressions as well scalability
- Drive the exploration, invention, research, and development of how users will express themselves in the metaverse
- Define and optimize safety standards of communication products
- Develop a well-rounded platform to support multiple communication and community use cases
- Lead a cross organizational team to execute
- Work with groups and leaders across Roblox to ensure delightful Communication products across all Roblox surfaces - phones, tablets, desktop, consoles and VR
- Define and unlock new use cases for all ages that haven't even been discovered yet.
- Help invent the future!
You Have:
- Experience. You have 10+ years of Product Management experience shipping high quality, delightful consumer apps across multiple platforms, especially pushing the envelope of Social products
- A Strategic Thought Leader with strong experience in rapid prototyping, design ideation, and driving cross-functional teams to invent creative user interfaces.
- Creative! Imagine and invent use cases and product applications that have not been built before.
- A Risk Taker! You are not afraid to make bold bets and don’t shy away from changing how the world works
- Organized and driven. Creating new ways for users to interact with Roblox requires juggling many technical, product, and policy requirements across many teams, features, and device platforms. You have to lead the team over the roadblocks that inevitably come.
- Inspirational. You lead and empower cross-functional teams to deliver successful projects. You convey through written, visual, and verbal communication, always aligning to the future vision of where the idea could lead us.
- A Structured Problem Solver. You can drive the right decisions through organized, analytical, logical thinking, balancing product vision and company priorities.
- Able to thrive in a fast-paced environment, with competing resources and priorities, through the product life cycle from planning, development, through launch
For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits.
Annual Salary Range
$368,230 — $422,210 USD
Roles that are based in our San Mateo, CA Headquarters are in-office Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional in-office on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).
You’ll Love:
- Industry-leading compensation package
- Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
- A rewarding 401k program
- Flexible vacation policy
- Roflex - Flexible and supportive work policy
- Roblox Admin badge for your avatar
- At Roblox HQ:
- Free catered lunches five times a week and several fully stocked kitchens with unlimited snacks
- Onsite fitness center and fitness program credit
- Annual CalTrain Go Pass
Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations for all candidates during the interview process.