Senior Director, Product Design - Creator Experiences - Roblox

Summary:

As a Senior Director, Product Design - Creator Experiences reporting to the Chief Design Officer (CDO) of our Company, you’ll play a critical role in leading design, strategy, vision, and design teams across the Creator and Engine groups, including Roblox Studio, Creator Hub, tools and engine-related products. You’ll connect our horizontal user experience strategy, innovation, features, and infrastructure across Roblox product vertical groups, responsible for ensuring that our end-to-end design processes for our creator and developer-facing application and tools is consistent and cohesive. This leader will work collaboratively with our partners such as Product and Engineering leaders to define our product lifecycles. This role requires a strategic problem solver with strong leadership, exceptional communication abilities, acute business insight, high design craft, deep understanding in the design system, and a passion for innovative problem-solving.

For This Role You Are: 

A company-level design leader who brings a high craft, strategic rigors, systems-first approach, an ability to work with cross-functional partners and diverse teams across design fields, including product design, content design, UX research, 3D art, creative, and tool design. 

You will:

• Manage resources across design teams and multi-disciplinary design efforts. 
• Partner with Product and Engineering Group leaders to build strategy and vision. 
• Make an impact that fuels imagination and ignite endless possibilities for our creators and developers at a time of incredible growth for our business. 
• Help define design strategy, future vision, goals, success metrics, roadmap, and resource allocation. 
• Promote a device-agnostic, systematic approach to crafting our user experiences across Roblox. 
• Communicate and present design and results at key C-suite meetings and proactively working through blockers or issues to ensure we are progressing against our goals and objectives. 
• Understand, leverage and evolve our design system to deliver a consistent and high quality app experience; and apply existing experience and interaction components and patterns, also developing new ones based on user needs.
• Eagerly seek and give help and clarity tops your list of values as a manager of managers.
• Identify and resolve operational bottlenecks to improve design efficiency and effectiveness
• Facilitate and foster collaboration among Design, Product, and Engineering teams, not just ensuring smooth handoffs and effective communication throughout the product development process, but also achieving design integration with product strategy and technical feasibility.
• Act as a thought partner to create shared context, drive clarity, and prioritize.
• Develop and implement strategies, including design roadmaps, expansion plans, and growth opportunities to ensure teams are delivering against established objectives and key results.
• Develop and own organizational contribution projects, including People, Culture, and Craft to build team skills and promote design thinking across the organization.

You Have:

• 15+ years of professional work experience in a design leadership and/or management capacity with a Bachelor’s degree in HCI, Interaction Design, Design, or equivalent work experience.
• Experience working as a Senior Director, Product Design role leading multiple developer or designer products/tools and company-wide projects that go in a similar technology company 
• Drive and are constantly building upon expertise with various tools, platforms and methodologies.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with keen attention to detail, high craft, a strong bias for getting things done, and ability to run multiple projects in a fast-paced environment
• A highly-tuned thought process that yields creative solutions to big challenges.
• Used your leadership methodologies, and design skills to bring a user-centered point of view while building relationships with our partners, including Engineering, Product Management, and Marketing
• Led and grown a team of product design managers and designers by setting goals, evolving design practice, building team culture, and guiding the team to the best possible solution while thriving on cross-functional collaboration and actively working to improve the people, products, and process on your team and beyond.
• Experience partnering closely with VP/Senior Director-level Product Management and Engineering leaders to ensure successful integration of design and development processes
• Self-motivation, resourcefulness, and a bias towards ownership, action, and problem-solving.
• Concisely presented design, analyses, insights, and ideas in the simplest way to the team, partnership, and partners including C-suite
• Ideally been a Design Vice President or Chief Design Officer responsible for developer or creator or designer-facing product design organization size of 50+ and being part of the hyper-growth phase in the technology industry.
• Led and oversaw in designing for sophisticated content creation tools (such as Maya, Photoshop, Blender, Illustrator, After Effects, Visual Studio, XCode).
• Experiences not just leading Product Design, but also Content Design, 3D Art, UX Research, Design Operations, and other Creative fields.

If you are passionate about driving craft and high quality design in a dynamic and rapidly growing environment, we invite you to apply for the position at Roblox. Join us on our vision to build a platform for communication and connection, where imagination and creativity come to life through shared experiences!