Senior Live Events Programs Manager

Roblox Corporation; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 164,000 - 201,000; Full time

Job summary

Roblox Live is seeking a Senior Program Manager to turn a slate of live experiences into a coordinated program. You will own the calendar, dependencies, budget requests, risk register, executive communications, and post-event playbooks.

You will work across creative, content, product, engineering, marketing, safety, and external partners to ensure launch readiness and clear accountability. You will define program audiences, goals, and success metrics, shaping formats and audience hooks.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in program management, production, or live operations, including 3+ years leading live events, recurring content programs, or partner programs.
• A track record of building and running complex programs across creative, technical, and business teams, with multiple initiatives moving at once.
• Experience consolidating budget requests, tracking program financials, and managing risks and dependencies through delivery.
• Strong judgment about scope, priorities, and escalation, with the ability to make progress before every detail is settled.
• Proven ability to lead without formal authority and build lasting trust with internal teams and external partners.
• Clear writing and executive communication, with experience connecting program activity to measurable outcomes.
• Experience in gaming, creator platforms, entertainment, live events, or esports (preferred).
• Experience building a program or operating model from scratch that other teams adopted (preferred).
• Familiarity with Roblox and its player and creator communities (preferred).

Responsibilities

• Turn the programming slate into a forward calendar with clear phases, milestones, decision gates, and owners. Manage dependencies and resource conflicts across events in concept, production, and live operation.
• Help define each program’s audience, goals, and success measures. Bring creative and operational judgment to early concepts, and make practical recommendations on scope, sequencing, and trade-offs.
• Build and maintain one shared view of program status. Establish how workstream owners update plans, track commitments, and resolve blockers across internal teams and partners.
• Run focused planning sessions, workstream reviews, and recaps that keep decisions moving. Partner with technical leads on feasibility and with the Live Ops Producer on readiness milestones.
• Consolidate staffing, studio, vendor, and production estimates into a program budget request. Partner with Finance and workstream owners to track commitments, spend, and changes against the approved plan.
• Maintain the risk register, including assumptions, issues, dependencies, and mitigation plans. Assign owners, surface risks early, and recommend changes that protect the program’s goals and delivery dates.
• Give executives concise updates on outcomes, progress, risks, and decisions needed. Give workstream owners the detail they need to act, with clear commitments and next steps.
• Establish decision owners and escalation paths before launch. Support the Live Ops Producer during live events by resolving cross-team dependencies and coordinating leadership decisions and communications.
• Lead retrospectives and publish post-event readouts with Data Science and functional leads. Track program results, partner contributions, and creative concepts against the goals set before launch.
• Turn lessons and operating runbooks into reusable program playbooks. Track follow-up actions and improve planning, handoffs, and reporting so each event starts with what the team has already learned.

Skills

Program management

Leadership

Executive communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Jira

Airtable

Asana

Job description

Roblox Live is seeking a Senior Program Manager to turn a slate of live experiences into a coordinated program. You will own the calendar, dependencies, budget requests, risk register, executive communications, and post-event playbooks.

You will work across creative, content, product, engineering, marketing, safety, and external partners to ensure launch readiness and clear accountability. You will define program audiences, goals, and success metrics, shaping formats and audience hooks.