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Senior/Principal Product Manager, Game Services (Matchmaking)
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.
As a Product Manager for Matchmaking, you will lead the product vision to define the future of critical and vital technical services that allow co-experience on Roblox. Matchmaking enables all players to join experiences on the platform and is also responsible for launching experiences on the Roblox Compute Cloud.
Matchmaking is at the intersection of the players and the experience and our core engine and infrastructure, this is the service that ensures users have a great social experience and a performance experience on the platform.
If you have bold ideas, and get excited about shaping the future of Matchmaking, you'll be a great fit. You will report to the Product Lead for Data and Matchmaking organization. Come join us!
You Are:
- Technical, comfortable delving into product, understand the technical details and engage with the world's best engineers.
- Experienced with 5+ years of product management experience and a history of finding the correct path through a sea of options
- Communicative. You have a history of juggling stakeholders and can explain, advocate for and sell your product strategy.
- Experienced shipping and managing a product with millions of users and sensitive to stability, distribution, and update flows
- Systematic. You are working toward a clear goal and every incremental release advances it. You understand system dynamics and prioritize scalability
You Will:
- Own the long-term vision and strategy for Matchmaking in partnership with engineering leadership.
- Understand new trends and the latest technologies in the industry to ensure that we provide the best, most creative platform to users.
- Develop a detail understanding of our user base to help evolve our algorithm and roadmap.
- Balance and prioritize new features with existing backlog initiatives and align them with the product vision.
- Communicate product needs and concepts to internal stakeholders and company executives.
- Look for and collect all data necessary to inform product direction whether in the form of competitive intelligence, customer behavior, or other market metrics.
- Dive into the technical details, helping make the right architectural decisions.
- Grow your career with a rocket ship company 🚀
Basic Qualifications:
- Minimum 5+ years of experience in product managing large-scale distributed systems built with a data-centric approach.
- A degree in a technical field like computer science, software engineering, or similar experience.
- Can think in system and platform terms.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 10+ years of experience in technical product management.
- Technical experience in Analytics. ML and/or Infrastructure
- Familiarity with Infrastructure technologies such as Spark, Hadoop, Kubernetes etc
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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
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