Vendor Operations, Automation

Roblox Corporation; San Mateo (CA); Hybrid; USD 145,000 - 174,000; Full time

Job summary

Roblox Corporation in San Mateo is seeking a Vendor Operations leader to scale safety vendor programs, standardize workflows, and drive automation across systems with LLM-based solutions. You will partner with vendors and internal teams to define processes, measure success, and improve efficiency.

The role emphasizes reporting, data-driven decisions, and clear communications to senior leadership. A collaborative, global team mindset and strong SQL/Python skills help contextualize large datasets

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of program and/or project management experience in operations, vendor management, or trust & safety.
• Strong systems-level mindset with ability to standardize processes.
• Hands-on experience automating processes and using LLMs for agentic solutions.
• Experience with vendor relationships, SLAs, and performance reviews.
• High data fluency and ability to turn large datasets into reports
• Clear written and verbal communication for senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead horizontal programs that scale safety vendor operations by standardized processes and playbooks.
• Partner with vendors and internal stakeholders to define workflows, SLAs, and success metrics.
• Identify and implement automation opportunities across manual processes using LLM-based solutions.
• Build reporting from large datasets to provide clear signals and program health metrics.
• Draft concise updates for senior leadership and coordinate cross-functional collaboration.

Skills

Program management

Vendor management

Automation

LLMs

Data reporting

Communication

Python

SQL

Excel

Tools

Python

SQL

LLMs

Excel/Google Sheets

Job description

San Mateo, CA, United States Safety & Support ID: 42590

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.

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.