Senior Product Manager, Ads

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.

The Senior Product Manager for Ads will help build the ad system to power 3D immersive spaces. You will build the system that enables businesses, brands and developers to reach their audiences in new and immersive ways.

This person will report directly to the Senior Director of product management for ads.

Success in this role will be determined by the candidate's ability to successfully craft a strategy for Roblox's Ad strategy for partnering with 3rd party demand, verification providers and other ad tech partners.

The candidate will own the integration with select partners and be accountable for drive ad demand at scale.

You Will

Drive the technical design and roadmap for Roblox's ad partnership strategy to help grow and optimize Roblox's access to a diverse range of demand sources

Drive the evaluation and selection of eligible third-party demand, verification, audience, and measurement (brand lift) partners.

Partner with engineering, data science & analytics, and design to build the features to enable Roblox to grow demand while maintaining the quality advertising bar.

Own ad quality, including ad fraud, integrity, and moderation.

You Have

Deep familiarity with video ad technology and experience working with brands, agencies and large media companies

Experience with advertiser ad server products, DSP/SSP products, or other self-service ad platforms. A strong understanding of how ad servers are configured and how various supply-side and demand side platforms work.

A deep understanding of RTB advertising protocols and standards, such as OpenRTB and Prebid.org, header bidding

Experience with driving an agenda with industry standards organizations such as the IAB, MRC, GARM and Prebid.org.

You Are

Senior Product Manager with history working on ad systems

Experienced with 6+ years of product management experience, with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a similar technical field.

E2E owner of the product development life cycle from inception through planning to launch

Opinionated and willing to make calls with limited information. Comfortable advocating for resources and operating in a dynamic, fluid organization.

Technical, comfortable delving into product, platform and implementation details. Engage with engineering beyond just product and user experience needs, and design scalable solutions

Metrics-driven, with proficiency in identifying, tracking and acting upon metrics using A/B testing methods. Experience identifying indicators and working with engineering and analytics on instrumentation and monitoring

A close partner to engineering and design and proficient in building extremely detailed technical specifications or wireframes

Comfortable driving critical business decisions and elevating critical decisions to senior leadership

For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits.

Annual Salary Range

$252,000—$318,090 USD

You'll Love

Industry-leading compensation package

Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage

A rewarding 401k program

Flexible vacation policy

Roflex - Flexible and supportive work policy

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At Roblox HQ

Free catered lunches five times a week and several fully stocked kitchens with unlimited snacks

Onsite fitness center and fitness program credit

Annual CalTrain Go Pass

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