Senior Design Program Manager
at Roblox
San Mateo, United States
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.
As a Senior Design Program Manager at Roblox, you'll combine expert project management skills with a passion for design to scale design operational excellence across our platform. In this pivotal role, you’ll partner with Design, Product, and Engineering teams at multiple altitudes to successfully orchestrate and manage complex, strategic product design initiatives that enable teams to focus on designing, building, and shipping products.
You'll work across the Economy and Ads & Brands product groups —ensuring strong communication, alignment, and effective ways of working together. This role requires someone who thrives at the intersection of strategy, creativity and systematic execution, with the ability to drive an org-wide focus on Foundation, Innovation, and Craft while meeting the diverse needs of our consumer ecosystem at Roblox.
You will:
- Lead end-to-end management of complex, cross-functional design initiatives from concept through launch, ensuring on-time delivery while maintaining design quality and craft.
- Develop and implement scalable design processes that foster creativity, efficiency, and collaboration across teams.
- Partner with design leadership to define design priorities aligned with key company goals.
- Manage design resource allocation and capacity planning across multiple concurrent initiatives.
- Orchestrate and build team rituals that focus on strategic alignment, decision-making, and execution, ensuring teams are on track while resolving blocks that impede progress.
- Prioritize, assess tradeoffs, propose clear solutions and communicate design strategy and progress persuasively to the right audience to get buy-in and feedback
- Sought out as the operations subject-matter expert to the design team and trusted leader to cross-functional partners
You have:
- 5+ years of professional experience in design program management, design operations, or related roles
- A track record of working directly with product design teams and cross-functional partners, ensuring delivery of high-quality design solutions
- Proven track record managing complex, multi-stakeholder design projects in consumer technology or gaming companies
- Demonstrated ability to influence without authority and drive consensus across diverse teams
- Experience with project management methodologies and tools (Agile, Jira, Confluence)
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 as described on this page.
Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).
Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations for all candidates during the interview process.