Principal Product Manager, Payments & Fraud

About this Job:

As the Principal Product Manager for this group, you are the product leader owning payments, pricing and fraud systems supporting all of the revenue for the company. 

• You lead the long term strategy for payments, fraud prevention, and how users all over the world purchase on the platform. The scope of this role includes, but is not limited to, expanding payments to new providers and platforms, international pricing and purchasing systems and optimization, and building extraordinary fraud and abuse defenses across the platform. 
• You drive innovation in ways in which creators can improve their earnings by making it easy and safe to transact on the platform. You lead the end to end experience of bringing Robux into the system and paying developers out. 

If you are an entrepreneurial product leader, who doesn’t hesitate to propose ambitious ideas and put them into action, you’ll be a great fit.
This role based in San Mateo, CA reports to the Sr. Director Product, Monetization and Payments.

You Will:

• You will drive the product strategy and vision for an innovative Payments and Fraud platform on Roblox, leading the industry in defining ways in which users and developers can seamlessly transact on this platform.
• Have full responsibility for developing features and capabilities to facilitate payments, lead and optimize pricing, and minimize Roblox’s exposure to fraud and abuse
• Partner with other product, design, engineering and business partners at Roblox, and drive strategic alignment. Enroll other teams into your product vision and align roadmaps to ensure cohesive product functionality and value proposition.
• Work closely with cross-functional partners to define scope, review technical capabilities, prioritize projects for release, and define new opportunities
• Defend your POV against skeptics, while being open to feedback and adapting your ideas to deliver the best output
• Communicate the long term vision of payments and fraud to the executive leadership team to drive consensus and ensure that the vision aligns with the company’s strategic priorities and principles.
• Use relentless customer understanding and empathy to discover and define the right problems and products we should be pursuing
• Balance and prioritize new features with existing backlog initiatives and align them with the product vision.
• Represent payments and fraud team in executive reviews and company wide updates.

You Have:

• 6+ years of product management experience, with expertise in the payments, pricing and / or fraud space
• A consistent record of aligning teams and prioritizing features/resources to deliver an excellent product
• Entrepreneurial drive: Worked in an environment with competing resources and priorities through the product life cycle, from planning, development, and through to launch. Strong opinions and a willingness to make calls with limited information. Comfortable advocating for resources and operating in a fluid organization. 
• A high degree of self-direction and a get stuff done attitude.
• Technical mentality: Comfortable delving into the product, platform and implementation details. Ability to roll up your sleeves and engage with engineering to design scalable and extensible solutions
• Data-driven approach: Proficiency identifying, defining, tracking and acting upon metrics. Familiarity with experimentation and A/B testing methods. Experience identifying critical metrics and working with engineering and analytics on instrumentation and monitoring.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills: Ability to convey strategies, priorities, and tradeoffs at the 30K foot level, as well as produce clear and detailed product and technical specifications