Product Director, Home Growth

As the Product Director, Home Growth, you will advance our existing strategy and vision for this most prominent discovery surface at Roblox, in light of the new content (types and verticals) and user growth. You will report to the Head of Discovery. Important challenges include but not limit to:

• Reimaging how we can optimize user and creator experience on Home for the new growth context and emerging use cases such as Commerce, Music, and Paid Access games, etc.  
• Deepening understanding of dynamic Roblox content and developing new discovery modalities and reasoning through it
• Maximizing the long-term value 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.
• Helping Roblox achieve global success across all ages, while ensuring a trusted and safe discovery system
• Figuring out the relationship between special projects on Home and other innovations across Discovery to ensure consistency
• Advancing discovery systems via latest technology evolutions such as large models

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.
• Map user, community, and platform value to traceable Home metrics and machine learning objectives to support a variety of diverse applications 
• Deeply understand content demand, supply, and how discovery and machine learning recommendations drive that flywheel.
• Deeply understand unique user and business challenges for these new content types and verticals that we want to bring to the platform, and translate these insights to creative product designs and solutions. 
• 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.
• Provide guidance and insights to non-technical audiences and hold your own with world-class experts on machine learning and data science. 

You have:

• A formal degree  in a technical or applied quantitative field such as: Machine Learning, Statistics, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Operations research, Information theory, Control theory, Econometrics or similar experience. 
• 4+ years experience using mathematical modeling and machine learning/AI to solve business and product problems, especially those in search, recommendation systems, and content understanding.
• 10+ years of product management experience, ideally with a consumer technology product
• Built products from first principles, leading to industry-defining innovation.
• The ability to balance an incredibly sophisticated 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.
• Experience with user generated content (UGC) and social.
• Passion 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. 
• Comfort working in an environment with competing resources and priorities.
• High degree of independent drive.