SeniorPrincipal Product Manager, Engine Systems Foundations

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 were 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. Were 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 youll 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 the Senior/Principal Product Manager for Engine Systems Foundations you will drive the vision and strategy for the most foundational parts of the Roblox game engine and be hands-on with the execution and delivery of products that impact over 130 million players every day.

This team is responsible for the core performance reliability and efficiency of the engine and it owns key features like our memory allocation library thread/work dispatch system and the backing APIs that power our creator performance tooling.

If you are a visionary product leader who thrives on deeply technical challenges to improve the speed and quality of a system youll be a great fit!

The role is based in San Mateo CA (hybrid with Tues-Thurs onsite).

You will:

• Define the long-term vision and strategy for Systems Foundations ensuring we have plans in place to continually invest in the core pieces of a high-performance realtime game engine.
• Take ownership of the engine-related content in the public Creator Analytics creators use to monitor the experiences on Roblox ensuring were delivering actionable insights.
• Work with the Creator organization to define and drive end-to-end performance workflows for our creator community such as connecting data that feeds Creator Analytics into Roblox Studio and our Microprofiler API and skill.
• Partner closely with the client application teams to drive alignment on joint performance improvement programs platform expansion efforts and more.
• Champion data rigor working with Data Science to identify opportunities and measure the efficacy of our work.
• Think outside the box working closely with engineering to consider how the latest advances in AI architecture and more combine to deliver step-function improvements
• Go hands-on to bring the roadmap to life partnering with engineering leadership to ensure all features are built and deployed successfully.
• Mentor and elevate the product culture within the team fostering an environment of rigorous thinking experimentation and relentless customer empathy.

You have:

• 6 years of product management experience with a significant portion spent in technically deep products.
• Technical Fluency: A strong technical background (CS degree or equivalent experience) with the ability to discuss low-level architecture C OS fundamentals and similar with engineering partners. Youve written multi-threaded code at least once and gone dining with philosophers.
• Strategic Leadership: Proven ability to define a multi-year product vision and rally large cross-functional teams (Engineering Data Science) behind it.
• Entrepreneurial drive: You have a Founder mindset. You are comfortable operating in ambiguity making high-stakes decisions with limited information and driving projects from vague concepts to global launch.
• Highly Analytical: Proficiency in defining and tracking complex metrics. You use data to find the signal in the noise.
• Executive Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills. You can explain complex technical topics to non-technical executives and define detailed technical specs for engineers with equal fluency.
• Experience with UGC platforms is a strong plus.