Principal Product Manager, Foundation AI

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 mission of the Foundation AI group is to enable Roblox Creators to accelerate their workflows and to put GenAI in the hands of millions of users through their creations. We envision a future in which experiences on Roblox leverage generative text and speech capabilities to enable new forms of interactions in their experiences and generative 3D capabilities to enable new ways to create on the platform.

We are building a 3D foundation model that will leverage multi-modal input (text, image, video, and 3D assets) to generate production-ready 3D objects, avatars, and full scenes. We will make this foundation model available to all creators on the platform via APIs as part of our Large models as a service initiative to bring the power of generative text, speech, and 3D models in the hands of our creators.

As the Product Manager for the Foundation AI team, you will advance our AI as a service strategy and vision. Enabling Roblox creations to use AI to unlock new forms of in-experience creation and make every user a creator.

You will:

• Be the product DRI that leads the AI as a Service strategy and roadmap to ship GenAI to millions of creators.
• Work on the bleeding edge of research and pave the path of research to scaled production.
• Lead the open source strategy and build a community around our foundation model.
• Understand the latest trends and technologies in the industry to provide the best, most creative platform to users.
• Develop the key workflows that will emerge as a result of shipping new AI generative products to our community.
• Communicate product needs and concepts to company partners and company executives.

You have:

• Formal degree or equivalent experience in a technical field such as Machine Learning, Statistics or Computer Science.
• 6+ years of product management experience, ideally building AI platforms.
• Familiarity with 3D technology such as Blender and Maya.
• Experience managing large, technically complex engineering programs that may take years to execute
• A high degree of independent drive.

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$318,090—$368,230 USD

Roles that are based in our San Mateo, CA Headquarters are in-office Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional in-office on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).

You’ll Love:

• Industry-leading compensation package
• Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
• A rewarding 401k program
• Flexible vacation policy (varies by exemption status)
• Roflex - Flexible and supportive work policy
• Roblox Admin badge for your avatar

• 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

Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations for all candidates during the interview process.