Vendor Operations, Automation

Roblox; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 145,000 - 174,000; Full time

Job summary

Roblox is seeking a Vendor Operations professional focused on automation to scale safety vendor programs across systems and partners at our San Mateo HQ. You will design workflows, implement automation and LLM-based solutions, and build clear reporting for senior leadership.

In this role you will collaborate across Global Scaled Operations, Moderation, Customer Support, Legal, Finance, and Engineering to drive standardization and efficiency while reducing toil in a fast-paced, global environment.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of program or project management experience in operations or vendor management.
• Systems-level mindset with focus on reusable processes and adoption across teams.
• Hands-on process automation experience; familiarity with leveraging LLMs for agentic solutions.
• Experience with vendor relationships, SLAs, and performance reviews.
• Strong data fluency and ability to turn large datasets into reports and recommendations.
• Clear written and verbal communication for senior leadership.
• Basic coding/scripting (Python/SQL) preferred but not required.
• Proactive, fast-paced, collaborative, global team mindset.

Responsibilities

• Lead horizontal programs that scale safety vendor operations by identifying friction across systems and vendor relationships, then designing and rolling out standardized processes and playbooks.
• Partner with vendors and internal stakeholders to translate operational goals into workflows, SLAs, and success metrics, ensuring accountability.
• Identify and implement automation opportunities across manual processes, including agentic and LLM-based solutions to reduce toil and increase consistency.
• Build and maintain reporting that turns large operational datasets into signals and program-health metrics for leadership.
• Draft and deliver crisp communications and updates for senior leadership, summarising status, risks, and recommendations.
• Serve as a connective layer across vendor operations, tooling, and cross-functional partners to coordinate changes at scale.

Skills

Program management

Automation

LLMs

Vendor management

Data fluency

Excel/Sheets

Python/SQL basics

Vendor relations

Tools

Excel/Google Sheets

Python

SQL

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.

As a Vendor Operations focused on automation, you will work horizontally across our safety vendor ecosystem to drive programs that standardize, automate, and scale the processes that keep our operations running. Rather than owning a single vendor relationship in isolation, you will operate across systems, tools, and vendor partners to build repeatable workflows, introduce automation and LLM-based tooling where it drives efficiency, and establish the reporting and communication rhythms that keep senior leadership informed. This is a builder's role for someone equally comfortable in a vendor business review, a process-mapping session, and a dataset full of operational signals.

You will:

• Lead horizontal programs that scale safety vendor operations by identifying friction across systems and vendor relationships, then designing and rolling out standardized processes and playbooks that improve quality, throughput, and cost efficiency.
• Partner with vendors and internal stakeholders to translate operational goals into concrete workflows, SLAs, and success metrics, holding programs accountable to measurable outcomes.
• Identify and implement automation opportunities across manual and repetitive processes, including agentic and LLM-based solutions that reduce toil and increase consistency.
• Build and maintain reporting that turns large, messy operational datasets into clear signals, including trend analyses and program-health metrics leadership can act on.
• Draft and deliver crisp communications and updates for senior leadership, synthesizing program status, risks, and recommendations.
• Serve as a connective layer across vendor operations, tooling, and cross-functional partners (Global Scaled Operations, Moderation, Customer Support, Legal, Finance, and Engineering), ensuring changes are coordinated and scaled rather than solved one-off.

You have:

• 3-5 years of program and/or project management experience, ideally in operations, vendor management, or a trust & safety-related environment (experience interacting with vendors or customer service operations is a strong plus).
• A programmatic, systems-level mindset - you naturally look for the reusable process behind a one-off problem and know how to drive adoption across teams.
• Hands-on experience automating processes, plus practical familiarity with leveraging LLMs for agentic solutions and a working understanding of basic machine learning concepts.
• Experience with or exposure to vendor relationship management, including SLAs, performance reviews, escalations, and partnering to improve delivery.
• High proficiency in spreadsheet software (Excel/Google Sheets) and strong data fluency, with the ability to work with large datasets and turn them into reports and recommendations.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, with a proven track record of drafting materials for and communicating with senior leadership.
• Basic proficiency in a coding or scripting language (e.g., Python, SQL) to independently explore and contextualize large datasets is preferred, but not mandatory.
• Proactive mindset with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative, global team setting.

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$144,620—$174,100 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.