Senior Product Manager, Roblox China

Every day, tens of millions of people from around the world come to Roblox to play, learn, work, and socialize in immersive digital experiences created by the community.  In partnership with Tencent Holding Limited, Roblox is extending this experience to China, the biggest gaming market in the world.  This role will be instrumental in bringing about our success in the Chinese market, which is essential to Roblox achieving its goal of having 10% of the global video-game content revenue to flow through the platform.  We are a fast-paced, team with varied strengths with presence in Shenzhen (China) and San Mateo (US).

Our vision is to build a platform to connect billions of users with optimism and civility. This is what’s known as the metaverse: a persistent space where anyone can do just about anything they can imagine, from anywhere in the world and on any device. The breadth of opportunities, and the evolving demands of this first-of-its-kind platform, ensure that your avenues for growth are always rapidly growing and flexible.

As a Senior Product Manager, you’ll be working with product teams across the company to land business and product objectives across the Roblox player and developer suite of products in China. You will serve as a strong customer advocate for this unique market, define and prioritize what is significant for our users, and influence & orchestrate the creation of China-First platform capabilities. Come work with the most passionate, team-oriented, transformative, and crazy-smart people you’ll ever meet!
This role is based in San Mateo, CA (no remote option) and reports to "Head of International Product".

You Will:

• Focus on end-to-end critical user journeys and identify product gaps across groups and opportunities to build a better global product.
• Distill customers and business requirements to formulate product opinions, and influence other product teams to incorporate them into roadmaps without direct authority.
• Research and better understand local user pain points and help inform the rest of the company how to build a better global platform.
• Work with a fast-paced multicultural team, across companies and time zones.
• Have the opportunity to travel to the Roblox China office in Shenzhen.
• Balance input from a wide variety of internal stakeholders and external partners with potentially competing priorities and timelines.
• Work closely with product owners, engineers, designers and analysts to drive the planning and execution of complex product requirements.
• Manage cross team dependencies, and coordinate cross-team initiatives and blocking issues.
• Grow your career with an amazing company

You Are: 

• Fluent in technology, preferably consumer IT platforms, with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• A self-starter, with 5-7 years of experience in product management, in which you lead product development efforts that cut across multiple stakeholders and organizations. Experience building platforms and/or PMP or Six Sigma certified a plus.
• Passionate about working across functional teams to land a strategy and influence others to work on a common goal.
• Comfortable in navigating complexities and unknowns to help disambiguate and synthesize a holistic plan to drive execution.
• An effective communicator with great language skills in English (listening, oral, and written) and Chinese Mandarin (listening, oral).
• Open-minded and empathetic, with experience working across cross-geo and multicultural teams.
• Dynamic and flexible, who creates opportunity out of uncertainty and ambiguity (e.g. changing requirements or incomplete data)
• A problem solver, who approaches challenges with a logical and systematic framework