Principal Product Manager, Search

About the role:

This role will focus on Roblox Search, which not only facilitates navigation within Roblox but is also one of main pillars for discovery. As the Product Manager for Search, you will lead every aspect of the search experience from query understanding and result ranking to organization and presentation across all of our platforms. Important challenges include but not limit to:

• Developing cutting edge query understanding, retrieval and ranking algorithms for search.
• Creating compelling and effective Search Organization and navigation models.
• Balancing among different tasks Search can do such as effective navigation, discovery, user education, etc. 
• Maximizing the long-term value 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 Search system
• Figuring out the relationship between Search and other discovery surfaces

You will report to the Head of Discovery and be part of the product team responsible for one of key growth levers for Roblox. 

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 search metrics and machine learning objectives to support a variety of diverse applications 
• Work across the company to accomplish your vision, understand and strategize content supply and demand, and collaborate with other relevant product areas.
• 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, machine learning, and language models 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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