Engineering Manager - Licensing and Music Job at Roblox in San Mateo

Overview

Engineering Manager - Licensing and Music

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 the Engineering Manager for the Content Licensing and Music pod within the Creator Content group, you will lead a team to help IP holders and community developers to build creative and innovative ways for users to create a diversity of content. You will help build tools and services for IP holders and Creators to bring in their new Licenses, and for Creators to discover them to build interesting and meaningful net-new content. You will also help build a best in class audio library, music tooling and APIs. You and your team will be in charge of the design, end-to-end architecture, implementation and delivery of a platform for the community to discover, publish and create with music.

You Will

• Mentor engineers to ensure your team expertise and culture grows over time.
• Work closely with your product and policy partners to determine the roadmap and lead project execution.
• Work with other engineering teams and particularly with the broader Content group to build technical systems that will last for years to come.
• Adhere to and expand our vision to put the Roblox community first, get things done, and take the long view.

You Have

• Experience: 8+ years of experience, with 2+ years of it in management, in building critically acclaimed consumer applications that impact millions of users. Experience building products where user-generated content is a cornerstone of the system.
• Organization: Proven track record leading multiple related projects simultaneously; focusing on technical direction as well as orchestration to bring complex features to light.
• Hands-on: Full-stack expertise in building applications and knowledge with REST, API design patterns, scalable containerized systems and microservices, and web and desktop UI/UX.
• People Leadership: Experience leading engineers, earning their respect and helping them grow technically and professionally.
• Passion: You lead by example and mentor others to excel.
• Music-focused: You are excited about increasing the immersiveness of Roblox with music.
• Music-focused, continued: Alignment with IP and media content space and related concerns such as rights management, moderation and discoverability is a plus.

You Are

• Experienced in building products in the IP and media content space, including rights management, moderation and discoverability considerations.

Compensation and Location

For roles based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay is as shown below. The actual base pay depends on factors such as background, training, experience, location, business needs and market demand. The salary range provided may be modified in the future. All full-time employees are eligible for equity compensation and benefits as described on this page. Annual Salary Range: $289,460—$338,270 USD. Roles based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday unless otherwise noted.

Equal Opportunity

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 to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process.

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