Senior Product Manager, Creator Core Services - Roblox
San Mateo, CA
About the Job
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.
With millions of creators worldwide, Roblox is creating the future of play. Our Creator Service team has a vision of a cloud platform that helps connect creators to services that enable unbounded creation. These foundational services power millions of creative Roblox experiences for storage, memory, communications, teleportation and more.
Stepping into the Senior Product Manager role in the Creator organization, you will drive the vision for the service platform that amasses an ecosystem of first-party and third-party options, leveraging the Open Cloud API suite and gateway. You'll lead the strategy and creation of a roadmap for a range of foundational services to help drive our goal of creation of anything, anywhere, by anyone. You'll work with accomplished engineers, designers, analysts and cross-functional groups to bring this vision to life.
You will report to the Sr. Director of Product, Creator Content & Services. This role is based at HQ (no remote option open).
You Will:
- Help Roblox achieve a vision of a cloud platform delivering foundational services for co-experience creation from storage, memory, communications, telemetry and future service use cases.
- Lead a strategy and roadmap for Roblox Open Cloud that enables 3rd parties to extend Roblox in new and interesting ways.
- Gain understanding of user needs and industry trends through research and practical experience.
- Write detailed product specifications that can be referred by team members for design and implementation.
- Run the development of projects from ideation, planning, to launch by working with engineering partners, UX designers, marketing.
- Help align vision, roadmap, and needs across executives, engineers, designers, and product team members.
- Establish the Indicators for your products and improve the metrics through both incremental and revolutionary improvements.
You Have:
- 5+ years of Product Management experience specifically with cloud-based solutions focusing on data services, storage, memory optimization, and experimentation; with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a similar technical field.
- Familiarity with building products in the cloud computing domain with a strong understanding of cloud services, business models and architectures (e.g., IaaS, PaaS, SaaS). Ideal candidates have product experience in a cloud service provider, such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
- Proven track record of managing all aspects of a successful product throughout its lifecycle.
- Experience with game developer-facing platforms and services with deep empathy for game and interactive-media developer needs. Including technical familiarity with critical cloud components, such as data storage options, memory management, and scaled cloud computing.
- A data-driven approach: You are proficient in defining Indicators, doing analysis, and deriving applicable insights from data.
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. 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.