Senior Product Manager, LiveOps Discovery - 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.
As the Senior Product Manager for LiveOps Discovery, you will own the strategy, vision, and corresponding roadmap to provide and improve the discovery of all live events and curated content on Roblox. You will report to the Head of Discovery.
Crucial challenges you will address include but not limit to:
- Helping Roblox grow strategic content verticals and attract corresponding new audiences while improving the long-term ecosystem health and content diversity and balancing the many-sided marketplace needs to get there.
- Crafting compelling and effective organization and display of LiveOps related content.
- Helping Roblox achieve global success across all ages, while ensuring a trusted and safe discovery system.
- Figuring out the relationship between discovery surfaces for LiveOps-related content and the rest of discovery surfaces to ensure we have a cohesive Discovery system.
You Will:
- Build products that delight users, creators, and advertisers and apply the unique qualities of Roblox to provide, improve, and scale discovery of content related to LiveOps.
- Map user, creator, advertiser, and platform value to traceable metrics and objectives to continuously measure and optimize outcomes.
- Break down your vision and strategy to executable roadmaps, including but not limited to expanding content corpus, building Content Management tools, optimizing UI/UX on Home/Search/Discover/Notifications.
- Work across the company to accomplish your vision, understand and strategize content supply and demand, and collaborate with other relevant product areas.
- Deterministically find and prioritize the most impactful challenges by analyzing trade-offs.
- Provide guidance and insights to non-technical audiences and hold your own with world-class experts on machine learning and data science.
You Have:
- 5+ years of product manager experience with expertise in building & growing discovery products such as recommendation and merchandising systems, and notification platforms.
- Ability and experience building products from first principles, leading to industry-defining innovations.
- Expertise working closely with data to opportunity size and prioritize opportunities, experiment and learn, and quickly iterate.
- Expertise bringing together different groups towards a shared objective, including executive leadership.
- Experience leading cross-functional execution with various teams including engineering, data science, design, marketing, partnerships, legal, and policy, to conceptualize, develop, test, and launch impactful features.
- Domain experience with user generated content (UGC), social, gaming.
- Passionate about defining what the metaverse means for people of all ages and the strategy to grow it to billions of people globally.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, supporting arguments via data, insights and clear logic chains and conveying ideas through detailed specifications or wireframes.
- Comfortable in an environment with competing resources and priorities.
- High degree of independent drive.
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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.