Sr/Principal Product Manager, Marketplace Discovery and Recommendations

Sentient; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 331,000 - 383,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

On-site in San Mateo

Job summary

Roblox is seeking a Senior/Principal Product Manager to own the Marketplace storefront and its personalization, balancing monetization with user experience. You will lead cross-functional teams across engineering, design and data science to build a prioritized roadmap that serves both creators and consumers.

With 5–10+ years in product management, you will drive feeds, ML-backed personalization, and two-sided marketplace growth while shaping the Roblox Economy across the company and community.

Qualifications

• 5–10+ years of Product Management experience shipping high-quality experiences.
• Experience with feeds, personalization systems and ML; two-sided marketplaces a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own the homepage design for Marketplace and the personalization engine.
• Collaborate with engineers, designers and data scientists to build roadmaps.
• Balance needs of a two-sided Marketplace while optimizing retention and monetization.
• Champion Marketplace and Roblox Economy across the company and community.
• Build the future of the Roblox Economy.

Skills

Product Management

ML personalization

Two-sided marketplaces

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Tools

LLMs

Recommendation engine

Job description

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.

Avatars are core to our mission and everyday, millions of people come to Marketplace or other avatar shopping experiences to discover and shop for creations that help them express their individuality. They dress and play with their avatar as they connect with friends across thousands of immersive digital experiences. Powering the creativity of our Marketplace is our community of creators and developers who are building businesses and establishing their brand by selling creations. These creators range from individuals to small businesses to large brands, all of which are attracted to the Roblox platform, community and offerings.

Our Marketplace is a critical component of Roblox’s economy, accounting for a third of economic activity on the platform. As a Sr/Principal Product Manager, you will own the first impression people have when they come to marketplace, our storefront and how we personalize all content on Marketplace

You will:

• Be responsible for designing a homepage that supports multiple content types, the UX and the recommendation engine behind it. You will own personalization for Marketplace, ensuring we are using the latest ML techniques, balance monetization and retention and anticipate the needs of what people want during their shopping journey.
• Get hands-on with our community, understand their needs, and partner with the engineers, designers and data scientists to build roadmaps.
• Balance the needs of a two-sided Marketplace, constantly striving to deliver for our community and consumers, while using a combination of data and research to inform and iterate on decisions.
• Be a champion of Marketplace and our Economy across the company and with the community.
• Build the future of the Roblox Economy!

You have:

• 5-10+ years of Product Management experience shipping high quality, delightful experiences for either consumers, creators, small businesses or brands that have a high technical fluency. Bonus if you’ve done it in two-sided marketplaces.
• Proven track record of how feeds are constructed, balance multiple objectives, scale content types through LLMs along with a deep understanding of personalization systems that power consumer facing feeds.
• You have owned both ML systems and the user facing experiences along with business goals (e.g. retention, growth, monetization).
• Interdisciplinary experience. In addition to the standard product functions of design and engineering, you have experience working within a multidimensional environment including analytics, business development, communications/PR, and marketing.
• Skills to convey complex ideas through written, visual, and verbal communication, always focusing on the reasons behind everything you do. Those skills transition from the detailed and technical for specs to the inspirational for strategic presentations.
• Spirit of an Entrepreneur with an ability to contribute to product design, project management and technical ideas.
• Skills to execute in a growing environment, with competing resources and priorities, through the product life cycle from planning and development, through launch.

For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits as described on this page.

Annual Salary Range$330,950—$383,120 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.