Creator Director / Designer San Mateo, CA, United States Safety & Support

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

Job summary

Roblox Corporation in San Mateo, CA, is seeking a Creative/Design Director to guide Incubator creators toward successful novel games. This leadership role shapes design strategies across Roblox and traditional games, driving innovative experiences with a strong track record.

You will oversee feedback, foster creator communities, and coordinate design workflows with production, product, analytics, engineering, and marketing to meet deadlines and scale impact.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of creative or game design experience with a proven track record.
• Ability to adapt and learn new game and platform dynamics across traditional and Roblox design.
• Superb written and verbal communication skills that guide and convince teams.
• Experience leading cross-functional execution with production, product, analytics, engineering, marketing and partnerships.
• Domain experience with UGC, social and gaming; understand player behavior and trends.
• Strong understanding of game design principles and mechanics.
• Experience collaborating with 3rd party creators and developers.
• Thrives in a fast-paced, agile, iterative development environment.

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 add value to games.
• Foster creator-to-creator interactions and sustainable partnerships.
• Build and execute design workflows between internal disciplines and Roblox creators.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to facilitate design deliverables and deadlines.
• Work with marketing and creative teams to devise GTM strategies.
• Support analytics to set up goals, measure impact, and grow KPIs.
• Support novel games initiatives across non-Incubator projects as needed.

Skills

Creative leadership

Game design

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication skills

Agile mindset

Job description

San Mateo, CA, United States Safety & Support ID: 48478

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.

As Creative/Design Director, you will be responsible for guiding Incubator creators toward the successful development of novel games (Read about novel games, the Incubator program and its charter at https://create.roblox.com/build ). This design & creative leader will be instrumental in helping Incubator participants find the right rich game dynamics for their games, whether these creators come from the Roblox creator community or the off-platform traditional game community. The ideal candidate has a history of creative leadership (including design) across a variety of games, along with a broad knowledge of design elements and their application in successful games across the industry. You will report to the Senior Lead, Incubator.

You will:

• 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 (production, product, analytics, engineering, marketing, partnerships and more) to facilitate design related deliverables and deadlines
• Work with marketing and creative teams to devise and execute on 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

You have:

• 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, in order 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 various teams including production, product, analytics, engineering, marketing, partnerships and more
• Domain experience with UGC, social and gaming; ability to understand and design for 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

Annual Salary Range

$287,590 — $336,450 USD

Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).

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 to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process.

For US based roles only, please note the Company may not be able to employ candidates for this role who have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.