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Director of Product, Roblox Studio Core
3 years ago
Every day, tens of millions of people from around the world come to Roblox to play, learn, work, and socialize in immersive digital experiences created by the community.
Our vision is to build a platform that enables shared experiences among billions of users. This is what’s known as the metaverse: a persistent space where anyone can do just about anything they can imagine, from anywhere in the world and on any device. The breadth of opportunities, and the evolving demands of this first-of-its-kind platform, ensure that your avenues for growth are always expanding and flexible.
Join us and you’ll usher in a new category of human interaction while solving exceptional challenges that you won’t find anywhere else.
ABOUT THIS ROLE
Work with the most passionate, team-oriented, visionary, crazy-smart people you’ll ever meet. As a Director of Product, Studio Core you will lead the product vision and strategy for the future of collaboration (for code development, modeling, game design) and content reuse in Roblox Studio, our world class game authoring IDE. As someone with extensive experience building development tools (especially 3D content) your mission is to research, validate, specify and manage the tools and features that empower Roblox developers to build amazing games and increase the accessibility of our platform. This role is key to growing the Roblox community of developers so that they can deliver the best 3D immersive and game experiences to customers all over the world.
You Are:
- Product leader with BS or MS in CS or similar with 10+ years in product management experience
- Domain experience managing widely adopted 3D content creation and/or development tools with integrated collaboration.
- Passionate creator who understands the needs of young and entry level users seeking to create interactive 3D worlds.
- Detail oriented: Ability to see beyond the veneer of the GUI to address the product, the platform, the implementation details, and the dataset.
- Communicator: Strong written and verbal communication skills with ability to convey ideas through detailed specifications and/or wireframes.
- Dynamic experience : Having worked in a fast paced environment, with competing resources and priorities, through the product life cycle from planning, development, through to launch.
- Strategic orientation coupled with an entrepreneurial attitude and an ability to contribute to product design, execution, and all things go-to-market.
- A self starter: High degree of self direction and independent drive.
You Will:
- Create and deliver vision for innovative authoring and collaboration concepts that satisfy the needs of the diverse Roblox developer community
- Build and lead a team of Product Managers that work cross-functionally to build out collaboration and content reuse features and bring them to life on the platform.
- Drive the strategy, processes and tactics to build the revolutionary game authoring tools that are radically easier to use than industry standards.
- Relentless customer development to discover and define the right problems and products we should be pursuing.
- Balance and prioritize new features with existing backlog initiatives and align them with the product vision.
- Communicate Studio needs and product concepts to other internal stakeholders, engineers, designers, and product team members.
- Be incredibly truth-seeking and collect all data necessary to inform product direction whether in the form of competitive intelligence, customer behavior, or other market metrics.
You'll Love:
- Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
- A rewarding 401k program
- Flexible vacation policy
- 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
- A Roblox Admin badge for your avatar