Product Design Director, Social

As Design Director, Social, you'll help lead design and strategy for our immersive co-experience platform. You will oversee a team that designs and builds end-to-end social products for our core Player app, working collaboratively with other senior leaders across product, research, data science and engineering to define social first experiences for our immersive platform experiences across mobile, desktop, 10ft, XR, wearables and beyond. These social experiences span different verticals: communications, connections and communities.

You'll help define UX strategy, future vision, goals, success metrics, roadmap, and sprint commitments. You'll be an inspirational design leader, a beacon of design excellence, pushing boundaries, partnering and coaching our talented designers to build an industry leading metaverse platform.

Reporting to the Director of Product Design, this is a high visibility role, where you'll make an impact that sparks imagination and enables players around the world to enjoy incredible experiences on Roblox at a time of sustained growth for our business.

You will:

• Lead a team that's creating outstanding user experiences for a diverse global audience through seamless cross-product journeys across the Roblox ecosystem.
• Grow, coach and oversee design led innovation, leading your design team to envision 0to1 social experiences and delightful interactions that align with our mission.
• Drive the design vision & strategy, exploration, invention, research, and development of how users will interact with and co-experience in the metaverse.
• Work with groups and leaders across Roblox to ensure delightful user interactions for all Roblox core social use cases on all surface areas.
• Present design strategy to team, group and executive leaders.
• Lead and grow a team of talented designers.
• Bring a fresh perspective and your industry skills, inspiring and enhancing how our design studio works and grows in their design craft.
• Help invent the future!

You have:

• 10+ years of Product Design experience shipping high quality, delightful consumer apps across multiple platforms, especially finding unique solutions for social interactions.
• Experience leading user-experience and design teams, especially those that build creative human-computer interaction paradigms.
• Deep experience shaping product strategy, project management, technical ideas, and all things necessary to achieve goals.
• Experience in leading teams that ideate through rapid prototyping, design ideation, and driving cross-functional teams to invent creative social first experiences.
• Expertise in user interactions juggling many technical, product, and policy requirements across many teams, features, and device platforms regularly overcoming roadblocks.