Director of Business Development, Payments

San Mateo, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 9 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Roblox is currently at a critical inflection point in its financial evolution. We recently achieved a significant payout milestone to our Creator community in 2025. To successfully build upon this momentum year over year while controlling our costs a world-class payments and wallets ecosystem is essential to ensure frictionless transactions across the platform for our Users and Creators.

This role offers the rare opportunity to lead a 0-to-1 buildout of a new payments division. If successful you will transition Roblox from standard payment processing to a strategic orchestration model utilizing AI-driven approach to optimize significant transaction cost.

Beyond cost savings you will spearhead the transformation of our creator payouts building a product designed to empower the livelihood of millions of developers through instant transparent and global financial access.

You Will

Own Global Partnership Negotiation & Account Management: Lead RFPs and high-stakes contractual negotiations with major global payment processors (e.g. Stripe PayPal etc) and financial institutions.

Establish formal business relationships where none currently exist securing advantageous commercial terms that are accretive to Robloxs bottom line.

Build Payment Orchestration Strategy & Development: Lead the transition from current legacy systems to a multi-partner orchestration system.

Achieve optimal routing based on cost and conversion potentially saving hundreds of millions of dollars in transaction fees in year one.

Transform Creator Payout : Drive the business strategy and partnerships required to modernize our existing infrastructure into a proprietary end-to-end financial platform for creators to run their businesses on Roblox

Dramatically improve creator retention and satisfaction by reducing payout latency and fees directly impacting Time-on-Platform and developer ecosystem growth.

Lead Cross-Functional Enterprise Deal Execution: Lead cross-functional deal teams comprising Legal Finance Privacy and Engineering stakeholders.

Execute complex contracts that satisfy global regulatory compliance (KYB/KYC/AML) while ensuring speed-to-market for new financial features.

Expand into Emerging Markets: Develop a strategy for handling international currency exchange volatility and local payment methods in high-growth regions.

Unlock revenue in emerging markets by mitigating FX risk and reducing the barrier to entry for new developers.

Bridge Business & Engineering: Translate commercial opportunities into second-level technical requirements such as ledger design and API integration standards.

Ensure the engineering roadmap is aligned with commercial viability preventing technical debt and ensuring the infrastructure supports real-time global payments.

Optimize Performance : Implement a rigorous Payment Excellence framework to monitor authorization rates and fraud thresholds.

Deliver incremental revenue gains where even a 0.01% improvement in authorization rates translates to millions in retained bookings.

Future-Proofing for Agentic Commerce: Evaluate and integrate emerging technologies including AI agents and blockchain rails into the payments strategy.

Secure Robloxs position as a leader in the future agentic economy where automated systems may negotiate and execute transactions on behalf of users.

You Have

10 years of Business Development experience specifically within the Consumer Financial Services Digital Payments Fintech or Digital Wallet sectors
Proven track record of a 0-to-1 buildout of a payments division or financial product line demonstrating the ability to operate without established playbooks
Bilingual Fluency (Tech/Business): Ability to articulate complex technical concepts (API orchestration tokenization ledger systems) to engineers while simultaneously modeling multi-year economic impacts for C-suite executives.
Global Regulatory Acumen: Deep understanding of the global regulatory landscape including PSD2 KYC/AML compliance and card network rules to navigate international expansion risks effectively.
Complex Negotiation Skills: Demonstrated success in negotiating and signing deals with payment networks acquirers and banks effectively balancing unit economics with legal and privacy constraints.
Strategic Ecosystem Architecture: Ability to view payments not as a utility but as a strategic asset class capable of designing partnerships that drive long-term ecosystem value rather than just transactional volume.
Analytical Rigor: Strong data processing and analytical skills to model ROI forecasting and payment excellence metrics (e.g. authorization rates FX margins).
Leadership in Ambiguity: Experience thriving in unstructured fast-moving environments where you must influence executive decision-making and manage multiple high-priority workstreams independently.

Required Experience:

Director

You Will

Own Global Partnership Negotiation & Account Management: Lead RFPs and high-stakes contractual negotiations with major global payment processors (e.g. Stripe PayPal etc) and financial institutions.

Establish formal business relationships where none currently exist securing advantageous commercial terms that are accretive to Robloxs bottom line.

Build Payment Orchestration Strategy & Development: Lead the transition from current legacy systems to a multi-partner orchestration system.

Achieve optimal routing based on cost and conversion potentially saving hundreds of millions of dollars in transaction fees in year one.

Transform Creator Payout : Drive the business strategy and partnerships required to modernize our existing infrastructure into a proprietary end-to-end financial platform for creators to run their businesses on Roblox

Dramatically improve creator retention and satisfaction by reducing payout latency and fees directly impacting Time-on-Platform and developer ecosystem growth.

Lead Cross-Functional Enterprise Deal Execution: Lead cross-functional deal teams comprising Legal Finance Privacy and Engineering stakeholders.

Execute complex contracts that satisfy global regulatory compliance (KYB/KYC/AML) while ensuring speed-to-market for new financial features.

Expand into Emerging Markets: Develop a strategy for handling international currency exchange volatility and local payment methods in high-growth regions.

Unlock revenue in emerging markets by mitigating FX risk and reducing the barrier to entry for new developers.

Bridge Business & Engineering: Translate commercial opportunities into second-level technical requirements such as ledger design and API integration standards.

Ensure the engineering roadmap is aligned with commercial viability preventing technical debt and ensuring the infrastructure supports real-time global payments.

Optimize Performance : Implement a rigorous Payment Excellence framework to monitor authorization rates and fraud thresholds.

Deliver incremental revenue gains where even a 0.01% improvement in authorization rates translates to millions in retained bookings.

Future-Proofing for Agentic Commerce: Evaluate and integrate emerging technologies including AI agents and blockchain rails into the payments strategy.

Secure Robloxs position as a leader in the future agentic economy where automated systems may negotiate and execute transactions on behalf of users.

You Have

10 years of Business Development experience specifically within the Consumer Financial Services Digital Payments Fintech or Digital Wallet sectors
Proven track record of a 0-to-1 buildout of a payments division or financial product line demonstrating the ability to operate without established playbooks
Bilingual Fluency (Tech/Business): Ability to articulate complex technical concepts (API orchestration tokenization ledger systems) to engineers while simultaneously modeling multi-year economic impacts for C-suite executives.
Global Regulatory Acumen: Deep understanding of the global regulatory landscape including PSD2 KYC/AML compliance and card network rules to navigate international expansion risks effectively.
Complex Negotiation Skills: Demonstrated success in negotiating and signing deals with payment networks acquirers and banks effectively balancing unit economics with legal and privacy constraints.
Strategic Ecosystem Architecture: Ability to view payments not as a utility but as a strategic asset class capable of designing partnerships that drive long-term ecosystem value rather than just transactional volume.
Analytical Rigor: Strong data processing and analytical skills to model ROI forecasting and payment excellence metrics (e.g. authorization rates FX margins).
Leadership in Ambiguity: Experience thriving in unstructured fast-moving environments where you must influence executive decision-making and manage multiple high-priority workstreams independently.

Required Experience:

Director

Key Skills

Business Development
Sales Experience
Direct Sales
B2B Sales
Marketing
Sales Pipeline
Salesforce
Strategic Planning
Enterprise Sales
negotiation
Lead Generation
Contracts

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