About this role
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.
As Creative/Design Director, you will be responsible for guiding Incubator creators toward the successful development of novel games (Read about novel games, the Incubator program and its charter at https://create.roblox.com/build ). This design & creative leader will be instrumental in helping Incubator participants find the right rich game dynamics for their games, whether these creators come from the Roblox creator community or the off-platform traditional game community. The ideal candidate has a history of creative leadership (including design) across a variety of games, along with a broad knowledge of design elements and their application in successful games across the industry. You will report to the Senior Lead, Incubator.
You will:
• Own design feedback to all (external) Incubator creators
• Oversee group feedback on specific builds and milestones
• Ideate on alchemy of Roblox and traditional success to help creators find innovation and value in their games
• Foster creator-to-creator community interactions, both individually and by creating sustainable processes and partnerships
• Build and execute effective design related workflows between internal disciplines and Roblox creators
• Collaborate cross-functionally (production, product, analytics, engineering, marketing, partnerships and more) to facilitate design related deliverables and deadlines
• Work with marketing and creative teams to devise and execute on GTM strategies
• Support analytics to set up goals, measure impact, and increase growth KPIs
• Help the novel games initiative across non-Incubator projects as needed
You have:
• 15+ years of creative or game design experience with proven track record of conceptualizing, creating, guiding and refining game designs
• Ability to adapt and learn new game and platform dynamics, in order to demonstrate expertise in both traditional and Roblox game design
• Superb written and verbal communication skills that guide and convince
• Experience leading cross-functional execution with various teams including production, product, analytics, engineering, marketing, partnership