Strategic Sourcing Manager Technology

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 a Strategic Sourcing Manager you will lead the contract and pricing negotiations of software and addition you will work with cross-functional teams to ramp efficiently. You will demonstrate domain expertise in software licensing modeling and contract negotiations.

You Will:

• Assist and support stakeholders with the vendor review process for BATNA purposes and articulating business justification.
• Demonstrate ability to analyze and interpret spend and cost data including understanding of Total Cost of Ownership
• Work collaboratively across Roblox and particularly within the Roblox Corp Eng organization.
• Work closely with stakeholder teams to forecast the Technology needs for our rapidly growing company
• Showcase your strong contracting experience and understanding of business risks and address them on legal documents with potential suppliers.
• Work with our Legal team to manage the review and approval of Master Service Agreements Terms of Service NDAs and End User License Agreements with our vendors prior to business being initiated.
• Drive price and term negotiation processes to ensure that Robloxs pricing is best in class and with risks mitigated on contract
• Drive continual cost reduction and avoidance initiatives through ad hoc price negotiations
• Centralize planning and purchasing for CorpEngrelated enduser hardware (laptops/desktops/peripherals) QA and test devices event hardware and devicelab equipment
• Participate in essential activities including assisting in annual budgetary validations and trending of actuals.
• Monitor software maintenance renewal requirements while coordinating with software owners on operational requirements
• Interpret software license agreements and identify rules obligations and product metrics to ensure compliance with all software licenses agreements and software usages
• Lead and manage RFx (e.g. Request for Proposal Request for Information Request for Quote) process including project management development of RFx negotiations and award process.
• Identify data inaccuracies preventing smooth workflow and implement scalable solutions
• Build documentation and quick reference guides around Sourcing and Procurement Contract Negotiation OpEx > CapEx

You Have:

• A Bachelors Degree or equivalent job experience
• A minimum of 6 years of Strategic Sourcing & Negotiation related experience.
• Conceptual knowledge of software licensing models
• Software and Tools and Corporate Hardware (laptops peripherals etc) procurement experience
• Experience working with Saas On-Prem Software and major OEM vendors (Microsoft Apple Dell)
• Advanced knowledge of Excel Google sheets or other data analysis tools used to coordinate and combine large data sets into actionable results
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Extensive negotiation experience.