Senior Director, Product Design - Consumer Experience
Roblox - San Mateo, California, United States, 94403![Roblox](/api/image?src=https%3A%2F%2Fgeneral-board-default.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdesk-360x180.webp&w=640&q=75&f=webp)
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Please read the information in this job post thoroughly to understand exactly what is expected of potential candidates.At Roblox, we’re 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. We’re 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 you’ll 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.Summary:As a Senior Director, Product Design - Consumer Experiences reporting to the Chief Design Officer (CDO) of our Company, you’ll play a critical role in leading design, strategy, vision, and design teams across the User and Discovery groups, including app experiences across all devices, social, home, and more. You’ll connect our horizontal user experience strategy, innovation, features, and infrastructure across Roblox product vertical groups, responsible for ensuring that our end-to-end design processes for our consumer-facing application is consistent and cohesive. This leader will work collaboratively across the company to define our product lifecycles. This role requires a strategic problem solver with strong leadership, exceptional communication abilities, acute business insight, high design craft, deep understanding in the design system, and a passion for innovative problem-solving.For This Role You Are:A company-level design leader who brings a high craft, strategic rigors, systems-first approach, an ability to work with cross-functional partners and diverse teams across design disciplines, including product design, content design, UX research, 3D art, creative, and tool design.You will:Manage resources across design teams and multi-disciplinary design efforts.Partner with Product and Engineering Group leaders to define strategy and vision.Ignite creativity and spark endless possibilities for our users at a time of incredible growth for our business.Be actively involved in defining design strategy, future vision, goals, success metrics, roadmap, and resource allocation.Promote a device-agnostic, systematic approach to crafting our user experiences across Roblox.Understand, leverage and evolve our design system to deliver a consistent and high quality app experience; and apply existing experience and interaction components and patterns, also developing new ones based on user needs.Be an effective communicator who is equally adept at presenting design and results at key C-suite meetings and proactively working through blockers or issues to ensure we are progressing against our goals and objectives.Eagerly seek and give help and clarity tops your list of values as a manager of managers.Identify and resolve operational bottlenecks to improve design efficiency and effectiveness.Facilitate and foster collaboration among Design, Product, and Engineering teams to ensure smooth handoffs, effective communication and design integration with product strategy and technical feasibility.Act as a thought partner with the CDO to create shared context, drive clarity, and prioritize.Develop and implement design roadmaps, expansion plans, and growth opportunities to ensure teams are delivering against established objectives and key results.Develop and own organizational contribution projects, including People, Culture, and Craft to enhance team skills and promote design thinking across the organization.You Have:15+ years of professional work experience in a design leadership and/or management capacity with a Bachelor’s degree in HCI, Interaction Design, Design, or equivalent work experience.Experience working at the Senior Director level leading multiple products and company-wide projects that go across all device types in a similar technology company.Excellent problem-solving skills, with keen attention to detail, high craft, a strong bias for getting things done, and ability to lead multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.A highly-tuned thought process that yields creative solutions to big challenges.Used your leadership methodologies, and design skills to bring a user-centered point of view while building relationships with our partners.Led and grown a team of product design managers and designers by setting goals, evolving design practice, building team culture, and guiding the team to the best possible solution while thriving on cross-functional collaboration and actively working to improve the people, products, and process on your team and beyond.Experience partnering closely with VP/Senior Director-level Product Management and Engineering leaders to ensure successful integration of design and development processes.Self-motivation, resourcefulness, and a bias towards ownership, action, and problem-solving.Concisely presented design, analyses, insights, and complex ideas in the simplest way to the team, partnership, and partners including C-suite.Ideally been a Design Vice President or Chief Design Officer responsible for consumer-facing product designs organization size of 50+ and being part of the hyper-growth phase in the technology industry.Experiences not just leading Product Design, but also Content Design, 3D Art, UX Research, Design Operations, and other Creative fields.If you are passionate about driving craft and high quality design in a dynamic and rapidly growing environment, we invite you to apply for the position at Roblox. Join us on our vision to build a platform for communication and connection, where imagination and creativity come to life through shared experiences!For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits.Annual Salary Range:$473,800 — $517,730 USDRoles that are based in our San Mateo, CA Headquarters are in-office Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional in-office on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).You’ll Love:Industry-leading compensation package.Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage.A rewarding 401k program.Flexible vacation policy.Roflex - Flexible and supportive work policy.Roblox Admin badge for your avatar.At Roblox HQ:
Free catered lunches five times a week and several fully stocked kitchens with unlimited snacks.Onsite fitness center and fitness program credit.Annual CalTrain Go Pass.
Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations for all candidates during the interview process.
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