Principal Product Manager, Discovery

Key Skills

Data Analytics, Data science techniques, Design, Effective communication skills, Leadership Skill, Machine learning techniques, Product Management

Job Description

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.

About the role:

As the Product Manager for Discovery you will lead the strategy and vision for the most prominent discovery surface areas and the main facilitator of navigation for a Roblox user. You will report to the Head of Discovery.

You will:

• Build a vision and strategy that delights users and creators and leads to industry-defining innovation that leverages the unique qualities of Roblox.
• Maximize the long-term size of the platform while balancing the many-sided marketplace needs to get there including users, creators, and content types like experiences, avatar items, friend recommendations, ads, and more.
• Define a strategy that helps Roblox achieve global success across all ages, while ensuring a trusted and safe discovery system.
• Deeply understand content demand, supply, and how discovery and machine learning recommendations drive that flywheel.
• Work across the company to accomplish your vision, understand and strategize content supply and demand, and collaborate with other relevant product areas like creator analytics.
• Manage from vision through the product life cycle from planning through to launch.
• Deterministically find and prioritize the most impactful challenges by analyzing complex (multi-dimensional) trade-offs.

You have:

• Product management leadership with 10+ years experience.
• A degree in a technical field like computer science, software engineering, or similar experience.
• Ability and experience building products from first principles, leading to industry-defining innovation.
• Ability to balance an incredibly complex multi-sided marketplaces.
• Understanding how to leverage machine learning, its future potential, and build a strategy to execute with a cross-functional team.
• Expertise working with design, data science, analytics, engineering, user research, and product marketing.
• Domain experience with user generated content (UGC) and social.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, conveying ideas through detailed specifications or wireframes.
• High degree of independent drive.

You are:

• Passionate about defining what the metaverse means for people of all ages and the strategy to grow it to billions of people globally.
• A natural curiosity that leverages quantitative and qualitative signals with intuition.
• Comfortable in an environment with competing resources and priorities.
• Strategic orientation coupled with an ability to contribute to product design, execution and go-to-market.

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.

Annual Salary Range

$318,090—$368,230 USD