Senior Product Manager - Rendering

Job Description

Roblox rendering team is responsible for the visual expression of the Roblox metaverse, from the smallest particle to the largest terrain. Join some of the best Graphics Engineers in the world supporting the largest immersive 3D streaming environment deployed across console, desktop, mobile, and VR. Three key principles define Rendering at Roblox and separate us from other rendering teams:

• Scalability: Roblox provides a platform that guarantees to the creators that their experiences will always and automatically run on different devices, with cross-platform play and minimal load times.
• Compatibility: Roblox experiences and assets made in the past, are still working today. Rendering has to have an eye to the past, and an eye to the future...
• Community: Roblox experiences are made by creators of all experience levels, from professionals who earn their living on the platform to kids who are learning to program using Roblox!

As a Senior Product Manager - Rendering, you will have a profound impact on the strategy and vision of how these systems evolve while overseeing day-day execution to deliver that vision.

You Are:

• Experienced, with 5-7 years of product management or other relevant experience such as technical director, with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a similar technical field
• Familiar with lighting technology such as global illumination and ray tracing
• Familiar with shading technology and tools, such as PBR textures and Substance 3D
• Familiar with procedural systems for environment and terrain generation and scattering/set dressing
• Passionate about creating easy-to-use UX, be it an API or tool, for features you own
• Detail oriented, with an eye for user interaction beyond the veneer of the GUI, down and comfortable with delving into the product, the platform and the implementation details
• Metrics informed, with proficiency in quality metrics and monitoring
• Communicator: Strong written and verbal communication skills with ability to convey ideas through detailed specifications and/or wireframes

You Will:

• Work closely with engineering leadership to own the vision and roadmap for rendering at Roblox
• Work across internal teams and with external customers to define the requirements for fundamental cross-platform, scalable, realtime rendering systems
• Define the specifications for both low-level and user-facing projects
• Work closely with UX designers to turn specifications into thoughtful designs
• Make the day-day decisions that happen during execution to turn specs into shipping products
• Work with engineering leadership to handle the project management aspects of execution
• Communicate to other internal stakeholders including executives, engineers, designers, and product team members
• Interface with our developer community as a key external voice of rendering