Senior Director, Product Design - Consumer Experience

Summary:

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.

For This Role You Are: 

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. 

You will:

• 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.

You Have:

• 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.

If you are passionate about driving craft and high quality design in a dynamic and rapidly growing environment, we invite you to apply for the position at Roblox. Join us on our vision to build a platform for communication and connection, where imagination and creativity come to life through shared experiences!