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Senior Product Manager, Audio/Video
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.
As a Senior Product Manager - Audio/Video, you will have a profound impact on the strategy and vision of media within the Roblox platform. As someone with extensive experience working with realtime authoring and playback systems, your mission is to research, validate, specify, and manage the tools and features that empower Roblox developers to create media-driven experiences from the platform-level API needs to the easy-to-use frontend tools within Studio.
You Are:
- Experienced, with 5-7 years of product management or other relevant experience such as AV engineering or technical direction, with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a similar technical field.
- Technical AV expert with knowledge of areas and frameworks including HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), DRM, WebRTC, network synchronization, FMOD API, and more. Bonus points for volumetric streaming.
- Detail oriented, with an eye for user interaction beyond the veneer of the GUI, down and comfortable with delving into the product, the platform and the implementation details.
- Ambitious, you boldly go where no one has gone before, you are always keen to learn, grow, and push the limits.
- Metrics driven, with proficiency in quality metrics and monitoring.
- Communicator: Strong written and verbal communication skills with ability to convey ideas through detailed specifications and/or wireframes.
- Entrepreneurial: Having worked in a fast paced environment, with competing resources and priorities, through the product life cycle from planning, development, through to launch.
- A self starter: High degree of self direction and independent drive.
You Will:
- Drive media, from platform APIs to Studio tooling, creating an integrated and vision-oriented approach to the future of media in the metaverse
- Work across internal teams and with external customers to define the requirements for fundamental cross-platform, scalable, realtime media systems
- Own the user-facing tooling in Studio, including within Marketplace and future tools, to make it easy to integrate media into an experience
- Define the best way to moderate media assets with the Trust & Safety team to ensure our customers experience safe, appropriate, and properly-licensed assets.
- Communicate media needs and product concepts to other internal stakeholders including executives, engineers, designers, and product team members.
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
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