Principal Product Manager, Marketplace Discovery

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, 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.

Expression is core to our mission and everyday, millions of people come to Marketplace to discover and shop for creations that help them express their individuality. They dress and play with their avatar as they connect with friends across thousands of immersive digital experiences. Powering the creativity of our Marketplace is our community of creators and developers who are building businesses and establishing their brand by selling creations.

Our Marketplace is a critical component of Roblox’s economy, accounting for a third of economic activity on the platform. As a Senior/Principal Product Manager on Marketplace, you will have a front seat at shaping the future of Marketplace and what it means to build an economy powered by our community.

You will:

• Be responsible for the discovery and recommendations experience on Marketplace. This includes the Marketplace homepage, improving the end to end search product and building our recommendation engine that powers these consumer experiences
• Get hands-on with our community, understand their needs, and partner with the engineers, designers and data scientists to build roadmaps
• Balance the needs of a two-sided Marketplace, constantly striving to deliver for our community and consumers, while using a combination of data and research to inform and iterate on decisions
• Defend your POV against skeptics. Be open to feedback and adapting your ideas to deliver the best output
• Help build the future of self-expression and shopping on Roblox!

You have:

• 5+ years of Product Management experience shipping high quality, delightful experiences with a focus on two-sided ecosystems across consumers and creators
• A proven track record of building consumer products, powered by machine learning to solve business problems, especially search and recommendation systems
• Post graduate education (MS or PhD) in a technical or applied quantitative field or equivalent experience in: Machine Learning, Statistics, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Operations research, Information theory, Control theory, Econometrics or similar experience.
• Interdisciplinary experience. In addition to the standard product functions of design and engineering, you have experience working within a multidimensional environment including analytics, business development, communications/PR, and marketing
• Skills to convey complex ideas through written, visual, and verbal communication, always focusing on the reasons behind everything you do. Those skills transition from the detailed and technical for specs to the inspirational for strategic presentations.

• Serve as the E2E owner of the product development life cycle from inception through planning to launch
• Drive enrollment from engineers and inspire them to build high impact products that fit the needs of our target audience
• Engage with engineering beyond just product and user experience needs; you will roll up your sleeves and brainstorm technical solutions to product problems
• Write all technical specs and partner with design to create elegant, simple, and seamless tools for advertisers and publishers alike
• Work with data science to analyze data, set up experiments, define success and guardrail metrics. Ultimately you will drive data informed high confidence decisions on behalf of the organization.
• Hire and mentor new PMs on the team.

You Have:

• An entrepreneurial spirit and self-drive!
• The ability to solve strategic and complex problems using data, inference, and product sense
• Experience driving difficult and somewhat contentious decisions through the leadership of your organizations
• An insatiable curiosity and a desire to deeply understand and solve hard problems
• A passion for advertising and commerce!

You Are:

• Experienced with 7+ years of PM experience