Roblox Corporation is hiring: Director, 3D Art San Mateo, CA, United States Desi

San Mateo, CA, United States Design & Creative ID: 5658 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. This is a leadership role for a 3D Art Director, defining and elevating the visual future of our platform. This position is responsible for setting the artistic vision, standards, and guidelines for how millions of users and creators play, create, and connect immersively. You will be the steward of the platform's core 3D aesthetic, balancing the need for world-class fidelity with accessibility, scale, and performance for a global, diverse community. Your influence will shape not only internal projects but also the tools and resources available to our entire ecosystem of creators, and will manifest in our external marketing. You Will: Define the overarching 3D art vision and principles for the platform, ensuring a cohesive, inspiring, and technically robust aesthetic across all internal content, marketing assets, and core platform features. Translate high-level product and business objectives into long-term 3D art strategies and roadmap initiatives, guiding the platform's visual evolution years into the future. Drive 3D art direction oversight, providing decisive strategic direction for major art initiatives, ensuring alignment with the company vision, and mentor and direct other 3D artists who manage specific domain execution (e.g., avatar item art, environment art). Drive innovation by staying ahead of trends in real-time rendering, material pipelines, geometric modeling, and Generative AI tools, advocating for new technologies that will empower our 3D art team and our creator community. Collaborate with product, design, and creative leadership to ensure the artistic direction enhances the user and creator experience and maintains a high bar for inspiring emotional and visual storytelling. Collaborate with technical art and engineering leadership to establish world-class, efficient 3D art pipelines that support scale and complexity while maintaining high performance across all surfaces. Provide clear, decisive, and constructive artistic feedback to internal teams and external partners, maintaining an uncompromising standard of craft and polish. Lead, mentor, and grow a world-class team of 3D Artists, fostering a culture of creative risk-taking, accountability, and professional growth. Manage project schedules, resources, and vendor relationships to ensure the 3D art team delivers on ambitious goals within scope, on time, and within budget. You Have: 10+ years of professional experience in 3D Art and creative leadership within a world-class interactive media, entertainment, or gaming studio/platform. Expertise in all core aspects of 3D art production: modeling (hard surface and organic), texturing/shading (PBR workflows), rigging, lighting, and real-time rendering. A world-class portfolio showcasing the ability to define, manage, and deliver an inspiring, cohesive, high-quality visual style at massive scale across multiple projects. Proficiency with industry-standard 3D software (e.g., Maya, Blender, ZBrush, Substance Suite) and experience working within major game engine/platform environments. Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate complex creative and technical concepts to both artists and non-creative stakeholders. Annual Salary Range $292,740 — $342,100 USD Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted). 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr In Summary: A leadership role for a 3D Art Director, defining and elevating the visual future of our platform . This position is responsible for setting the artistic vision, standards, and guidelines for how millions of users and creators play, create, and connect . You will be the steward of the platform's core 3D aesthetic . En Español: Todos los días, decenas de millones de personas vienen a Roblox para explorar, crear, jugar, aprender y conectarse con amigos en experiencias digitales inmersivas 3D creadas por nuestra comunidad global de desarrolladores y creadores. En Roblox estamos construyendo las herramientas y plataformas que permitan a nuestra comunidad dar vida a cualquier experiencia que puedan imaginar. Nuestra visión es reimaginar la forma en que la gente se une, desde cualquier lugar del mundo y en cualquier dispositivo. Estamos en una misión de conectar a mil millones de gente con optimismo y fidelidad, y buscando un papel increíble para ayudarnos a obtener talento. Una carrera en Roblox significa que estarás trabajando para moldear el futuro de la interacción humana, resolviendo desafíos técnicos disponibles a escala única y para crear más seguros, más creadores civiles compartidos para todos. Esta es una plataforma de liderazgo 3D, elevando el rendimiento externo de nuestros proyectos, y en todo el mundo. Definirás la visión y los principios generales del arte 3D para la plataforma, asegurando una estética cohesiva, inspiradora y técnicamente sólida en todos los contenidos internos, activos de marketing y características básicas de la plataforma. Transformar objetivos de productos y negocios de alto nivel en estrategias e iniciativas de artesanía 3D a largo plazo, guiando los años de evolución visual de la Plataforma hacia el futuro. Dirigir la supervisión de la dirección del arte en 3D, proporcionando una dirección estratégica decisiva para las principales iniciativas artísticas, garantizando la alineación con la visión de la compañía, y mentorizar y dirigir a otros artistas 3D que gestionan ejecuciones específicas de dominio (por ejemplo, arte avatar, arte ambiental). Impulsar innovación manteniéndose por delante de tendencias en tiempo real, tuberías de materiales, potencia geométrica y herramientas generativas de AI, abogando por nuevas tecnologías que emiten nuestro equipo de diseño 3D y nuestros equipos de ingeniería de piezas. Lider, mentor y crecer un equipo de clase mundial de artistas 3D, fomentando una cultura de toma de riesgos creativos, responsabilidad y crecimiento profesional. Gestionar los horarios de proyectos, recursos y relaciones con proveedores para garantizar que el equipo de arte 3D logre objetivos ambiciosos dentro del alcance, a tiempo y dentro del presupuesto. Usted tiene: 10+ años de experiencia profesional en Arte 3D y liderazgo creativo dentro de un medio interactivo, entretenimiento o estudio/plataforma de juegos de nivel mundial. Roblox proporciona igualdad de oportunidades laborales a todos los empleados y solicitantes de empleo y prohíbe la discriminación y el acoso de cualquier tipo sin importar raza, color, religión, edad, sexo, origen nacional, estado de discapacidad, genética, estatus de veterano protegido, orientación sexual, identidad o expresión de género u otra característica protegida por leyes federales, estatales o locales.