Director of Business Development, Payments

Roblox Roblox · Consumer · San Mateo, CA · Business Development

Roblox is seeking a Director of Business Development for its new payments division, focusing on a 0-to-1 buildout. The role will lead the transition from standard payment processing to a strategic orchestration model using an AI-driven approach to optimize transaction costs and transform creator payouts into a proprietary, end-to-end financial platform. This involves global partnership negotiation, building payment orchestration strategy, and expanding into emerging markets, with a strong emphasis on regulatory acumen and bridging business and engineering.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own Global Partnership Negotiation & Account Management: Lead RFPs and high-stakes contractual negotiations with major global payment processors (e.g., Stripe, PayPal, etc) and financial institutions.
  2. Build Payment Orchestration Strategy & Development: Lead the transition from current legacy systems to a multi-partner orchestration system.
  3. Transform Creator Payout : Drive the business strategy and partnerships required to modernize our existing infrastructure into a proprietary, end-to-end financial platform for creators to run their businesses on Roblox
  4. Lead Cross-Functional Enterprise Deal Execution: Lead cross-functional deal teams comprising Legal, Finance, Privacy, and Engineering stakeholders.
  5. Expand into Emerging Markets: Develop a strategy for handling international currency exchange volatility and local payment methods in high-growth regions.

Skills

Required

  • 10+ years of Business Development experience specifically within the Consumer Financial Services, Digital Payments, Fintech, or Digital Wallet sectors
  • Proven track record of a 0-to-1 buildout of a payments division or financial product line, demonstrating the ability to operate without established playbooks
  • Bilingual Fluency (Tech/Business): Ability to articulate complex technical concepts (API orchestration, tokenization, ledger systems) to engineers while simultaneously modeling multi-year economic impacts for C-suite executives.
  • Global Regulatory Acumen: Deep understanding of the global regulatory landscape, including PSD2, KYC/AML compliance, and card network rules, to navigate international expansion risks effectively.
  • Complex Negotiation Skills: Demonstrated success in negotiating and signing deals with payment networks, acquirers, and banks, effectively balancing unit economics with legal and privacy constraints.
  • Strategic Ecosystem Architecture: Ability to view payments not as a utility but as a strategic asset class, capable of designing partnerships that drive long-term ecosystem value rather than just transactional volume.
  • Analytical Rigor: Strong data processing and analytical skills to model ROI, forecasting, and "payment excellence" metrics (e.g., authorization rates, FX margins).
  • Leadership in Ambiguity: Experience thriving in unstructured, fast-moving environments where you must influence executive decision-making and manage multiple high-priority workstreams independently.

Nice to have

  • Evaluate and integrate emerging technologies, including AI agents and blockchain rails, into the payments strategy.

What the JD emphasized

  • 0-to-1 buildout
  • 0-to-1 buildout