Editorial Manager

Roblox; San Mateo (CA); Hybrid; USD 187,000 - 229,000; Full time

Job summary

Roblox is seeking an Editor on the Corporate Communications team to craft clear, authentic copy at scale across product innovations, AI, safety, creator community, and users. You will collaborate with executives, product leads, and marketing partners to align on messaging and storytelling.

The role is hybrid, based at Roblox HQ in San Mateo, CA, with on-site work Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and optional Monday and Friday.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional writing experience in English, journalism, communications, or related field.
• Experience from communications, public relations, speechwriting, or journalism industries.
• Strong portfolio with consumer-driven content across topics.
• Ability to manage conflicting feedback and align stakeholders.
• Detail-oriented with a collaborative, iterative copy process.

Responsibilities

• Enhance Roblox brand by crafting clear, compelling copy about products and innovations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to align on strategy and messaging.
• Write for press, user, and creator audiences and switch between them.
• Clarify requirements and deliverables when strategy is ambiguous.
• Report directly to the Senior Manager, Editorial.

Skills

Professional writing

Cross-functional collaboration

Project management

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in English, journalism, communications, or related field

Job description

As an Editor on Roblox's Corporate Communications team, you'll be part of the team creating content to support the company's goals and narratives in several key areas, including product innovations, AI, safety, creator community, and our users. This hands‑on role is pivotal in crafting clear, concise, authentic copy at scale.

You will collaborate with Communications and Marketing partners, company executives, product leads, and other business partners to strategically align on compelling messaging and content that tells the world about Roblox. Your unwavering attention to detail, project management skills, collaborative mentality, and passion for clear, persuasive writing will be integral to our mission.

You Will

• Enhance the overall Roblox brand by crafting clear, compelling copy about our products, innovations, etc.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners across the organization to align on the best strategy and messaging to achieve our goals.
• Write for press, user, and creator audiences, and switch easily between them.
• Work with cross-functional partners to clarify requirements and deliverables when there is ambiguity or disconnection on the best strategy.
• Report directly to the Senior Manager, Editorial.

You Have

• 5+ years of professional writing experience with a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in English, journalism, communications, or a related field.
• Experience from the communications, public relations, speechwriting, or journalism industries.
• Writing samples that showcase clear, compelling consumer-driven content across various topics.
• Practice working with cross-functional teams and stakeholders, accepting feedback and direction gracefully and giving it diplomatically. You are an expert at managing conflicting feedback and bringing stakeholders to alignment.
• A thoughtful and resilient mindset. You understand that copywriting is iterative and have the ability to operate nimbly.
• Project management skills: comfortable working independently and tracking multiple assignments through several rounds of approvals on different deadlines.
• Attention to detail: you make the copy editor's job easy because you deliver clean copy.

Location

Hybrid, based at Roblox HQ in San Mateo, CA, onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday with optional presence Monday and Friday.

Salary

$186,620-$228,550 USD per year, plus equity and benefits.

Posted by

Melissa Gunning, Senior Manager, Editorial