Senior Director of Product Design, Roblox
Consumer Experience
$473.8-517.7k
+ Eligible for equity
More information about location
3 days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
Online gaming & entertainment platform
Open for applications
Online gaming & entertainment platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$473.8-517.7k
+ Eligible for equity
More information about location
3 days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help connect and bring together people from around the world through play.
Role
Who you are
- 15+ years of professional work experience in a design leadership and/or management capacity with a Bachelor’s degree in HCI, Interaction Design, Design, or equivalent work experience
- Experience working at the Senior Director level leading multiple products and company-wide projects that go across all device types in a similar technology company
- Excellent problem-solving skills, with keen attention to detail, high craft, a strong bias for getting things done, and ability to lead multiple projects in a fast-paced environment
- A highly-tuned thought process that yields creative solutions to big challenges
- Used your leadership methodologies, and design skills to bring a user-centered point of view while building relationships with our partners
- Led and grown a team of product design managers and designers by setting goals, evolving design practice, building team culture, and guiding the team to the best possible solution while thriving on cross-functional collaboration and actively working to improve the people, products, and process on your team and beyond
- Experience partnering closely with VP/Senior Director-level Product Management and Engineering leaders to ensure successful integration of design and development processes
- Self-motivation, resourcefulness, and a bias towards ownership, action, and problem-solving
- Concisely presented design, analyses, insights, and complex ideas in the simplest way to the team, partnership, and partners including C-suite
- Ideally been a Design Vice President or Chief Design Officer responsible for consumer-facing product designs organization size of 50+ and being part of the hyper-growth phase in the technology industry
- Experiences not just leading Product Design, but also Content Design, 3D Art, UX Research, Design Operations, and other Creative fields
What the job involves
- As a Senior Director, Product Design - Consumer Experiences reporting to the Chief Design Officer (CDO) of our Company, you’ll play a critical role in leading design, strategy, vision, and design teams across the User and Discovery groups, including app experiences across all devices, social, home, and more
- You’ll connect our horizontal user experience strategy, innovation, features, and infrastructure across Roblox product vertical groups, responsible for ensuring that our end-to-end design processes for our consumer-facing application is consistent and cohesive
- This leader will work collaboratively across the company to define our product lifecycles
- This role requires a strategic problem solver with strong leadership, exceptional communication abilities, acute business insight, high design craft, deep understanding in the design system, and a passion for innovative problem-solving
- A company-level design leader who brings a high craft, strategic rigors, systems-first approach, an ability to work with cross-functional partners and diverse teams across design disciplines, including product design, content design, UX research, 3D art, creative, and tool design
- Manage resources across design teams and multi-disciplinary design efforts
- Partner with Product and Engineering Group leaders to define strategy and vision
- Ignite creativity and spark endless possibilities for our users at a time of incredible growth for our business
- Be actively involved in defining design strategy, future vision, goals, success metrics, roadmap, and resource allocation
- Promote a device-agnostic, systematic approach to crafting our user experiences across Roblox
- Understand, leverage and evolve our design system to deliver a consistent and high quality app experience; and apply existing experience and interaction components and patterns, also developing new ones based on user needs
- Be an effective communicator who is equally adept at presenting design and results at key C-suite meetings and proactively working through blockers or issues to ensure we are progressing against our goals and objectives
- Eagerly seek and give help and clarity tops your list of values as a manager of managers
- Identify and resolve operational bottlenecks to improve design efficiency and effectiveness
- Facilitate and foster collaboration among Design, Product, and Engineering teams to ensure smooth handoffs, effective communication and design integration with product strategy and technical feasibility
- Act as a thought partner with the CDO to create shared context, drive clarity, and prioritize
- Develop and implement design roadmaps, expansion plans, and growth opportunities to ensure teams are delivering against established objectives and key results
- Develop and own organizational contribution projects, including People, Culture, and Craft to enhance team skills and promote design thinking across the organization
Our take
While online gaming is no longer a revolutionary concept, Roblox has established itself as a leader in the industry by creating a gaming toolbox that encourages quality game creation, which it pays developers for.
In addition to standard games, the platform offers virtual worlds and other experiences to explore and interact with. Its platform provides an online ecosystem for millions to create, socialize, chat, and explore immersive experiences with friends. In fact, in the US its used by two-thirds of children aged 9 to 12.
The experiences on the platform are made by Roblox's over three million creators, and are available on a range of devices from PC to Xbox to Oculus, and more. The company has grown at an impressive rate, and has been keen to adopt new developments in the tech world, for example with its real-time AI translation for players to interact outside their native tongue.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jan 2021
$520m
SERIES H
Feb 2020
$150m
SERIES G
Total funding: $922.8m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 401k
- Flexible vacation policy
- Roflex - Flexible and supportive work policy
- Roblox Admin badge for your avatar
- 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
Company HQ
South San Mateo, San Mateo, CA
Articles
Leadership
David Baszucki
(CEO)Studied Electrical Engineering at Stanford before founding Knowledge Revolution in 1990, where they spent 9 years as CEO. They worked as VP of MSC.Software for 2 years, and started Roblox in 2005.
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