Principal Product Manager, Player App - Desktop

Roblox users who play on Windows PCs or Macs are some of the most dedicated users we have. We’re looking for a product manager to drive Roblox to be the best gaming, social, and entertainment application for our users on those platforms. We want to bring the best aspects of the top AAA PC games and consumer desktop applications to Roblox, and work without constraints with new, innovative user interfaces.

You’ll report to the Senior Director of Product Management.

You will:

• Drive the roadmap for the Roblox player experience on desktop (Windows, Mac), including the desktop web user experience. Identify, define, prioritize, and craft the features to optimize a delightful experience of Roblox players around the world.
• Innovate, innovate, innovate. We want to make Roblox better than anything else out there.
• Write product requirements and specifications to communicate those initiatives and unblock the team to relentlessly implement.
• Work very closely with product managers for other platforms (mobile, console, etc.) to ensure a truly authentic and intuitive Roblox experience across all devices.
• Also, collaborate with teammates of all teams including engineering, design, data analytics, marketing, etc. You are the glue that holds it all together.
• Present and debate wide-ranging and difficult decisions with our highly engaged and visionary leadership. This requires balancing the needs of internal collaborators, business goals, third-party game developers, and Roblox players with the long-term vision of Roblox.
• Monitor analytics, critical metrics, A/B testing results, competitive intelligence, customer behavior, etc. to help make the right business decisions.
• Work with third-party partners, like hardware vendors and app stores, to prioritize and improve distribution opportunities.
• Grow your career with a company that is exploding.

You have:

• 5-7 years of product management experience or equivalent and a history of building excellent consumer apps operating at mass scale, ideally on desktop platforms.
• A passion for games and other consumer applications, especially on desktop platforms.
• A degree or equivalent experience in a related field like computer science or human computer interaction.
• Experience owning and driving roadmaps for teams that span multiple features.

You are:

• 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 and detailed levels.
• 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
• Technical, comfortable with delving into the product, the platform, and the implementation details.
• Ambitious, having worked in a fast paced environment, with ambitious resources and priorities, through the product life cycle from planning, development, through to launch. You love to get things done.
• Organized, understanding that the best way to build something phenomenal is through the joint efforts of many people.