This job might no longer be available.
Principal Product Manager, Content Platform
1 year 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.
On the Content Platform team, our mission is to enable anyone around the world to bring their 3D ideas to life. Today most creators use our sophisticated desktop creation tool Studio to build content but we envision a future where creation happens everywhere, including on mobile phones. For example, users will scan real-world objects with their phone, upload them into their favorite experience, and publish them to the world. To achieve this vision will require significant innovation in ingesting, understanding, and delivering 2D and 3D content at scale.
As the Principal Product Manager for the Content Platform team within the Creator group, you will lead the team responsible for maintaining and expanding Roblox’s most critical system: the cloud asset system where millions of pieces of user created content are uploaded, stored, reencoded, and served. You will help define product vision, strategy, and execution for how this system will evolve to support our future where every user on Roblox is effortlessly creating content.
You Are:
- Experienced : 7+ years of experience in product management, with 2+ years on large-scale consumer-facing content management or delivery systems
- Technical : Deep understanding of cloud-based systems so you can effectively collaborate with engineers on building the systems internal teams and external creators need
- Systematic : Approach problems with a structured approach and provide clarity to teams through sharing context and priorities
- Curious : You are open-minded, always seeking new information that may challenge your assumptions
- Passionate: You care about your product’s users and that your work is helping improve the world
You Will:
- Drive the identification and development of features and APIs that will benefit millions of creators
- Work closely with engineers, data scientists, designers, and other partners to bring initiatives from ideation to launch
- Collaborate with internal teams to ensure the Content Platform is supporting their present and future needs
Basic Qualifications:
- Background in software engineering, esp. Architecture-focused
- Experience building content management and/or delivery systems
- Leadership experience - has managed before, ideally 2+ PMs
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with on-device or edge machine learning
- Experience building and managing cloud content/asset management systems, ideally consumer-facing
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
$310,001 — $355,000 USD
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. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.