Principal Product Designer, Social

Roblox • San Mateo, CA

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About The Position

As a Principal Product Designer on Social, you will shape how Roblox players socialize, communicate, and connect across immersive experiences. You’ll lead design for a key product area within Social—owning end-to-end execution from early discovery through launch and iteration. This is a high-impact, highly collaborative role where you’ll work closely with Product, Engineering, Research, Data Science, and Trust & Safety to deliver social experiences that are expressive, intuitive, and safe for a global audience.

Requirements

• 10+ years of professional experience as a UX/Product Designer, including experience leading projects independently
• A portfolio demonstrating strong craft, end-to-end product thinking, and shipped work with clear user and business impact
• Experience designing consumer products, ideally in social, communication, community, or identity spaces
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and drive alignment across cross-functional partners
• A Bachelor’s degree in HCI, Interaction Design, Ergonomics, or equivalent practical experience
• Strong storytelling skills: Can clearly communicate design rationale to exec and cross-functional stakeholders

Nice To Haves

• Comfort designing across platforms (mobile, desktop, console/10ft)
• Experience building scalable patterns or contributing to design systems.
• Experience designing for safety-by-default systems (filtering, reporting, consent, privacy, integrity)

Responsibilities

• Lead design for a core area of Roblox Social, creating experiences that help users connect and communicate meaningfully
• Own end-to-end feature design: research synthesis, concept exploration, prototyping, interaction design, visual polish, and final specs
• Translate complex requirements (including safety and policy constraints) into clear, user-centered product solutions
• Partner closely with Product and Engineering to shape roadmaps, define requirements, and drive decisions through tradeoffs
• Collaborate with Research and Data Science to define success metrics, learn from experiments, and iterate based on insights
• Ensure high-quality implementation through close collaboration with engineering and strong attention to detail
• Contribute to team culture through critique, mentorship, and raising the bar for craft and clarity
• Participate in interviewing and hiring, helping strengthen an inclusive design team

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal