Principal Product Manager, Discovery

About the role:

As the Product Manager for Discovery you will lead the strategy and vision for the most prominent discovery surface areas and the main facilitator of navigation for a Roblox user. You will report to the Head of Discovery.

You will:

• Build a vision and strategy that delights users and creators and leads to industry-defining innovation that leverages the unique qualities of Roblox.
• Maximize the long-term size of the platform while balancing the many-sided marketplace needs to get there including users, creators, and content types like experiences, avatar items, friend recommendations, ads, and more.
• Define a strategy that helps Roblox achieve global success across all ages, while ensuring a trusted and safe discovery system.
• Deeply understand content demand, supply, and how discovery and machine learning recommendations drive that flywheel.
• Work across the company to accomplish your vision, understand and strategize content supply and demand, and collaborate with other relevant product areas like creator analytics.
• Manage from vision through the product life cycle from planning through to launch.
• Deterministically find and prioritize the most impactful challenges by analyzing complex (multi-dimensional) trade-offs.

You have:

• Product management leadership with 10+ years experience.
• A degree in a technical field like computer science, software engineering, or similar experience.
• Ability and experience building products from first principles, leading to industry-defining innovation.
• Ability to balance an incredibly complex multi-sided marketplaces.
• Understanding how to leverage machine learning, its future potential, and build a strategy to execute with a cross-functional team.
• Expertise working with design, data science, analytics, engineering, user research, and product marketing.
• Domain experience with user generated content (UGC) and social.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, conveying ideas through detailed specifications or wireframes.
• High degree of independent drive.

You are:

• Passionate about defining what the metaverse means for people of all ages and the strategy to grow it to billions of people globally.
• A natural curiosity that leverages quantitative and qualitative signals with intuition.
• Comfortable in an environment with competing resources and priorities.
• Strategic orientation coupled with an ability to contribute to product design, execution and go-to-market.

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