Principal Product Manager, Home

About the role:

As the Product Manager for Home you will lead the strategy and vision for this most prominent discovery surface and the main facilitator of navigation for a Roblox user. You will report to the Head of Discovery. You will solve a diverse range of challenges, including but not limited to:

• Developing cutting edge discovery systems.
• Creating compelling and effective Home organization and navigation models.
• Maximizing 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.
• Helping Roblox achieve global success across all ages, while ensuring a trusted and safe discovery system
• Figuring out the relationship between Home and other discovery surfaces
• Providing relevant and compelling evidence to inform user choices

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.
• Map user, community, and platform value to traceable Home metrics and machine learning objectives to support a variety of diverse applications
• 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.
• Provide guidance and insights to non-technical audiences and hold your own with world-class experts on machine learning and data science.

You have:

• Post graduate education (MS or PhD) in a technical or applied quantitative field such as: Machine Learning, Statistics, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Operations research, Information theory, Control theory, Econometrics or similar experience.
• 4+ years experience using mathematical modeling and machine learning to solve business problems, especially search and recommendation systems.
• 6+ years of product management experience, ideally with a consumer technology product.
• 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.
• Passionate about defining what the metaverse means for people of all ages and the strategy to grow it to billions of people globally.
• Support arguments via data, insights and clear logic chains and convey ideas through well-written memos, detailed specifications or wireframes.
• Thrive in an environment with competing resources and priorities.
• High degree of independent drive.

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