Creative Director - Game Design & Incubator Leadership

Roblox; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 288,000 - 336,000; Full time

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Equity compensation

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Job summary

Roblox seeks a Creative/Design Director for its Incubator program, guiding top creators toward innovative game experiences across Roblox and traditional platforms. You will oversee design feedback, shape milestones, and collaborate across production, analytics, and partnerships to drive growth and strong GTM strategies.

The role requires 15+ years in creative or game design, superb communication, and a proven track record leading multi-disciplinary teams in a fast-paced, agile environment.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of creative or game design experience with proven track record of conceptualizing, creating, guiding and refining game designs.
• Ability to adapt and learn new game and platform dynamics, to demonstrate expertise in both traditional and Roblox game design.
• Superb written and verbal communication skills that guide and convince.
• Experience leading cross-functional execution with production, product, analytics, engineering, marketing, partnerships and more.
• Domain experience with UGC, social and gaming; ability to understand player behavior, expectations and trends.
• Understanding of game design, principles and mechanics.
• Experience working with 3rd party creators and developers.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, agile and iterative development environment.
• Ability to adapt to changing circumstances and ambiguity.
• Excellent organization skills.

Responsibilities

• Own design feedback to all external Incubator creators.
• Oversee group feedback on specific builds and milestones.
• Ideate on alchemy of Roblox and traditional success to help creators find innovation and value in their games.
• Foster creator-to-creator community interactions, both individually and by creating sustainable processes and partnerships.
• Build and execute effective design related workflows between internal disciplines and Roblox creators.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to facilitate design related deliverables and deadlines.
• Work with marketing and creative teams to devise and execute GTM strategies.
• Support analytics to set up goals, measure impact, and increase growth KPIs.
• Help the novel games initiative across non-Incubator projects as needed.

Skills

Creative design

Adaptable

Communication

Cross-functional

UGC focus

Game design basics

3rd party partners

Agile mindset

Ambiguity tolerance

Organization

Job description

Roblox seeks a Creative/Design Director for its Incubator program, guiding top creators toward innovative game experiences across Roblox and traditional platforms. You will oversee design feedback, shape milestones, and collaborate across production, analytics, and partnerships to drive growth and strong GTM strategies.

The role requires 15+ years in creative or game design, superb communication, and a proven track record leading multi-disciplinary teams in a fast-paced, agile environment.