Principal Product Manager, Content Platform

Roblox•San Mateo, CA

13h•$330,950 - $383,120•Onsite

About The Position

Roblox is hiring a Principal Product Manager to lead the Content Platform, the foundational system that ingests, stores, processes, governs, and serves content across Roblox. The platform supports assets such as meshes, images, sounds, animations, scripts, and places, handling billions of daily requests from Studio, game servers, and the Roblox client. It manages permissions, adapts content to different devices and networks, and delivers it to players around the world. The Product Leader will define the roadmap for how content is created, stored, understood, governed, and served, shaping core infrastructure, APIs, and creator workflows. The role will prepare the platform for substantially increased content creation by people and AI agents, and enable creators to draft, iterate, version, and collaborate using modern developer workflows. The position partners across Roblox to build reliable, extensible systems and translates platform goals into measurable outcomes. For roles based at Roblox headquarters in San Mateo, California, the annual base salary range is $330,950–$383,120. Actual pay may vary based on job-related factors. Full-time employees are eligible for equity compensation and benefits. Office-based roles are onsite Tuesday through Thursday, with optional presence Monday and Friday, unless otherwise noted.

Requirements

At least 8 years of product management experience.
Formal degree in a technical field such as Computer Science or Software Engineering, or similar experience.
Strong understanding of distributed systems, storage, APIs, and data modeling, with the ability to work closely with engineers on architecture and trade-offs.
Experience building developer products, with strong judgment about APIs and creator workflows and a deep understanding of how creators build, iterate, and ship.
Ability to translate platform changes into measurable outcomes such as reliability, latency, cost, and creator productivity.
Track record of leading collaboratively through influence across product, engineering, design, and data teams.
Self-directed and comfortable operating in ambiguity.

Nice To Haves

Product management experience in large-scale systems, storage, content delivery, or developer platforms.
Familiarity with media pipelines, CDNs, or asset management systems.
A point of view on how AI agents and generative models will change how content is created, managed, and consumed.

Responsibilities

Own the vision and roadmap for the Content Platform, including asset ingestion, storage, processing and transcoding, permissions, and delivery.
Scale a mission-critical service that stores and serves Roblox content reliably and performantly across billions of daily requests and globally distributed infrastructure.
Prepare the content backbone for substantially more content created by people and AI agents, and build structured metadata and content understanding for agentic workflows, search, and safety.
Support creator workflows such as drafts, versioning, branching and rollback, packages and dependencies, import and export from external tools, and open APIs for automated pipelines and Studio creators.
Evolve permissions and licensing so creators and IP holders can share, license, and protect content across users, groups, experiences, and AI agents.
Collaborate with engine, Studio, Creator Store, Trust & Safety, infrastructure, and AI teams to build reliable, extensible systems at global scale.
Translate platform-wide goals into capabilities and traceable metrics, including reliability, latency, cost to serve, creator iteration speed, and adoption.