Senior Product Manager, Player App Performance

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.

Roblox is used by hundreds of millions of people every month, across almost all devices (mobile, desktop, console, VR, etc.) and millions of outstanding user generated experiences. They expect the best app performance: lightning-quick app launches, buttery smooth animation, validated stability. We’re looking for a product manager to drive Roblox towards being the best app they’ve ever felt across all devices and experiences. This is a key company objective that underpins everything a user experiences and is one of the highest priorities across all of Roblox.

You’ll report to the Senior Director of Product Management. The role is based in San Mateo, CA(no remote option available)

You will:

• Drive the roadmap for App Performance. Identify, define, prioritize, and design the features, frameworks, and architectures used to optimize the experience of Roblox players around the world. This includes app launch time, app download size, stability metrics, page load time, animation smoothness, etc. Really, anything that improves the performance of the app.
• Write product and technical specifications to communicate those initiatives and unblock the team to relentlessly implement.
• Understand, influence, and expand the company’s thinking on App Performance to optimize the Roblox experience.
• Balance the needs of internal collaborators, business goals, third-party game developers, and Roblox players with the long-term vision of Roblox.
• Work closely with many hard-working internal collaborators, engineers, designers, data scientists, and product team members.
• Present and debate nuanced and difficult decisions with our highly engaged and entrepreneurial leadership. This area is important to our users so is important to everyone up and down Roblox.
• Dive into the technical nitty-gritty, helping make the right decisions on a platform that is shipping across every major consumer platform.
• Monitor analytics, critical metrics, AB testing results, competitive intelligence, customer behavior, etc. to help make the right business decisions. Performance metrics often have trade-offs; you will help make those decisions.

You have:

• A degree or equivalent experience in a highly technical field like computer science, software engineering.
• Experience product managing the performance characteristics of a consumer app at scale. This includes instrumenting, improving, and measuring the impact of those performance characteristics.
• Experience as an engineer or engineering manager shipping a consumer mobile, desktop, or console app at scale. This includes involvement in architecting a consumer app to optimize performance.
• Experience owning and driving roadmaps for teams that span multiple features

You are:

• Experienced, with 7+ years of product management experience and experience building excellent consumer apps operating at mass scale.
• Analytical, with experience driving user understanding in collaboration with Engineering and Data Science including: crafting instrumentation and monitoring, and conducting experiments in difficult to measure environments
• Highly technical, efficient with delving into the product, the platform, and the implementation details. You’re capable of going beyond user needs to define scalable and extensible systems to improve Performance in an area where engineering systems are the product.
• An excellent communicator and documenter, with phenomenal listening, verbal, and written communication skills. You’re at home understanding and expressing strategies, priorities, trade-offs, and tasks at the 30K-foot level and at the level of detailed technical specs.
• Bold, having worked in a fast paced environment, with competing resources and priorities, through the product life cycle from planning, development, through to launch. You love to get things done.
• Coordinated, understanding that the best way to build something great is through the joint efforts of many people

For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits.

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. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations for all candidates during the interview process.