Product Designer, Design Acceleration

Roblox Roblox · Consumer · San Mateo, CA · UI/UX

Product Designer on the Design Acceleration team responsible for designing innovative internal tools and systems that revolutionize how Roblox's design organization works, focusing on scalable systems, AI integrations, and custom tooling. The role involves end-to-end design process for tools like Figma plugins, web applications, and AI-powered workflows, partnering with Design Engineers and collaborating with AI Research teams.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead the end-to-end design process (user research, ideation, wireframing, prototyping, and high-fidelity mockups) for our suite of internal design acceleration tools, such as Figma plugins, custom utilities, and internal web applications.
  2. Partner deeply with Design Engineers to translate complex backend services, APIs, and AI models into intuitive, coherent user experiences that solve critical workflow bottlenecks.
  3. Conduct user research and gather feedback from designers and engineers across Roblox to deeply understand existing processes, pain points, and opportunities for automation and efficiency.
  4. Define the interaction models, visual aesthetic, and accessibility standards for all internal design acceleration tools.
  5. Collaborate with AI Research and Core Engineering teams to ensure that experimental AI-driven features, such as natural language UI generation, are integrated through a seamless and trustworthy user interface.

Skills

Required

  • 3+ years of experience as a Product Designer or UX Designer focused on designing complex software products
  • strong portfolio demonstrating expertise in end-to-end product design
  • mastery of user research, interaction design, visual design, and prototyping
  • Expert proficiency with design and prototyping tools like Figma
  • demonstrated experience in creating and applying design systems
  • Experience designing tools for technical users
  • creating user interfaces that manage complex data and system workflows
  • Excellent ability to articulate design decisions
  • provide and synthesize constructive feedback
  • communicate effectively across technical and non-technical stakeholders

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with AI/LLM concepts
  • experience designing workflows that leverage generative capabilities
  • Experience designing for platform ecosystems, such as plugin or extension architectures

What the JD emphasized

  • internal tools and systems
  • AI integrations
  • AI-powered workflows
  • natural language UI generation