Lead Product Manager - Creator Content Backbone | Roblox

The Content Platform is the home of all content on Roblox—ingesting, storing, processing, transcoding, and serving every mesh, image, sound, animation, script, and place across billions of daily requests. As the Product Leader for Content Platform, you will define the multi-year vision and roadmap for how content is created, managed, understood, governed, and served globally. You will scale the core infrastructure to prepare for orders-of-magnitude content growth driven by generative AI and autonomous agents, while building modern software engineering workflows (drafts, branching, versioning, package dependency management, and open APIs) for millions of global creators.

Key Responsibilities

Core Content Infrastructure & Scaling

• End-to-End Product Roadmap: Own the vision, architecture strategy, and execution roadmap for the Content Platform—spanning asset ingestion, storage engines, transcoding pipelines, permissions, licensing, and global CDN delivery.
• Global Infrastructure Scaling: Scale a mission-critical platform servicing billions of daily requests, optimizing key operational metrics including platform latency, cost to serve, and high availability.
• Evolve Permissions & Licensing: Modernize the platform's permissions and IP licensing model so creators and enterprise IP holders can share, monetize, and protect assets across users, groups, experiences, and AI agents.

AI Creator Infrastructure & Developer Workflows

• Prepare Platform for AI Creation: Scale the content backbone to handle agentic AI content creation, establishing structured metadata standards and content understanding required for automated search, safety, and retrieval.
• Modern Creator Workflows: Design and deliver software-like workflows for Roblox Studio and automated pipelines—including asset drafts, version history, branching, rollback capabilities, and open REST/gRPC APIs.
• Cross-Functional System Leadership: Partner deeply with Engine, Studio, Creator Store, Trust & Safety, Core Infrastructure, and AI research teams to deliver scalable platform capabilities.

Requirements

Product Leadership & Technical Systems Mastery

• Experience Track: 8+ years of product management experience delivering large-scale distributed systems, storage platforms, content delivery networks (CDNs), media pipelines, or developer platforms.
• Deep Technical Foundations: Strong technical background with a formal degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering (or equivalent practical technical depth). Deep operational understanding of distributed storage, microservice architecture, API design, and data modeling.
• Developer Product Craft: Proven track record of shipping high-quality developer products and APIs with intuitive developer experience (DevEx) and creator workflows.
• AI Tooling Fluency: Strategic POV on how generative AI models, agentic workflows, and synthetic media asset pipelines alter content lifecycle management.
• Data & Metrics Driven: Demonstrated capability to translate platform architectural decisions into concrete business metrics (latency reduction, cost efficiency, reliability SLOs, creator velocity).

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct experience building or operating enterprise digital asset management (DAM) systems, object storage architectures, or global edge CDN delivery networks.
• Background in media transcoding infrastructure for 3D meshes, textures, or real-time spatial computing formats.

Total Rewards & Benefits

• Compensation & Equity: San Mateo base salary range ($330,950 – $383,120 USD) + competitive Roblox equity compensation package.
• Healthcare & Wellbeing: Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance packages for employees and eligible dependents.
• Onsite Perks & Campus: Modern San Mateo headquarters featuring daily catered meals, team events, and state-of-the-art technical setups.
• Time Off & Retirement: Generous vacation policies, paid company holidays, paid parental leave, and 401(k) matching programs.