Roblox
Senior Program Manager
San Mateo, CA, United States · Senior · Full-time
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About the role
- We're looking for a Senior Program Manager to turn our slate of live experiences into a coordinated program.
- Turn the programming slate into a forward calendar with clear phases, milestones, decision gates, and owners.
- Help define each program's audience, goals, and success measures.
Responsibilities
- You will own the calendar, cross-team dependencies, budget ask, risk register, executive communications, and post-event playbooks.
- You'll align the program around shared goals, partner with the Live Ops Producer on launch readiness and event-day escalations, and give leadership a clear view of progress and decisions.
- Turn the programming slate into a forward calendar with clear phases, milestones, decision gates, and owners. Manage dependencies and resource conflicts across events in concept, production, and live operation.
- Build and maintain one shared view of program status. Establish how workstream owners update plans, track commitments, and resolve blockers across internal teams and partners.
- Run focused planning sessions, workstream reviews, and recaps that keep decisions moving. Partner with technical leads on feasibility and with the Live Ops Producer on readiness milestones.
- Consolidate staffing, studio, vendor, and production estimates into a program budget request. Partner with Finance and workstream owners to track commitments, spend, and changes against the approved plan.
- Maintain the risk register, including assumptions, issues, dependencies, and mitigation plans. Assign owners, surface risks early, and recommend changes that protect the program's goals and delivery dates.
- Establish decision owners and escalation paths before launch. Support the Live Ops Producer during live events by resolving cross-team dependencies and coordinating leadership decisions and communications.
- For US based roles only, please note the Company may not be able to employ candidates for this role who have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.
- Manage dependencies and resource conflicts across events in concept, production, and live operation.
Requirements
- Strong judgment about scope, priorities, and escalation, with the ability to make progress before every detail is settled.
Nice to have
- Experience in gaming, creator platforms, entertainment, live events, or esports (preferred).
- Familiarity with Roblox and its player and creator communities (preferred).
Compensation
- $163,940 - $200,840 USD
Company info
- The Role We're looking for a Senior Program Manager to turn our slate of live experiences into a coordinated program.
Visa & Work Authorization
- For US based roles only, please note the Company may not be able to employ candidates for this role who have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.
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