Director of Product, Marketplace

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.

The Roblox Marketplace is an essential piece of the Roblox experience, supporting the players' metaverse identity and personalization. The marketplace is also an essential opportunity for the community of Roblox creators to display their creativity and skill and earning a living through their creations.

As the Director of Product for the Roblox Marketplace, you will be in charge of establishing systems and tools to empower generations of creators on the platform to create, market, and sell their creations to millions of fellow Robloxians.

Our marketplace represents a fascinating and unique set of capabilities for creators and users that strives to help everyone realize their identity regardless of whether they love customizing their avatar or really just want to be a walking trophy case for the games they love and whether they have money to spend or none at all. We're designing and refining systems that support that vibrant community, and we need someone to blaze those trails with us.

As a senior product leader on the Marketplace team, you will establish and promote essential platform systems that promote a healthy and egalitarian creator ecosystem and economy. You will get hands-on with our community, understand their needs, and partner with the engineers and data scientists on the team to give creators the tools they need to succeed.

This role will own:

• The Roblox Marketplace experience itself (product and business ownership), including search and discovery, integration with avatar customization and overall UX (shopping and editing) - every day millions of users engage and shop in the Roblox marketplace.
• The broader set of rules governing the buying and selling of virtual platform items, including revenue sharing, distribution rules, trading and reselling.
• The creator pipeline to create, tag, price and distribute an item.

You will:

• Guide the vision of the economic systems that comprise Roblox's Marketplace
• Coordinate with leaders across other Roblox groups to drive company-wide priorities
• Help establish and prioritize the features, APIs, and services used to power features that engage hundreds of millions of players and creators around the world.
• Balance the needs of internal engineering teams, our goals, third-party experience creators, and Roblox players with the long-term vision of Roblox.
• Help us make the right decisions on a platform that is shipping across every major consumer platform.
• Monitor analytics, Indicators, AB testing results, competitive intelligence, and customer behavior to help make the right decisions.
• You will report to the VP of Economy

You have:

• At least 12 years of product management experience with at least 2 delivering and supporting marketplaces and/ or complex economies
• Experience building marketplace systems from conception through release. You can engage with Engineering beyond just product and user experience needs; you can help design scalable solutions and create detailed product specs.
• Experience with economic dynamics including how demand/ supply dynamics, copycats, branding affect prices and volumes.
• Experience having worked in an environment with competing resources and priorities and bringing products through the product life cycle from planning through to launch.
• A degree in a numerical/technical field like computer science, applied mathematics, economics, or similar.
• Experience with online marketplaces and/ or virtual economies
• Experience defining new economic systems/mechanics and driving them end-to-end through to users.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 15 years of experience working in a product manager or similar role
• Experience with marketplaces that sell virtual goods, related to user identity/avatars
• Experience with experiences/products that are engaged with by a diverse audience, including under 13 users.
• Experience in dat