Senior Design Program Manager

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

Roblox is seeking a Senior Design Program Manager to scale design operational excellence across their platform. This role will partner with Design, Product, and Engineering teams to manage complex, strategic product design initiatives, ensuring on-time delivery and design quality. The ideal candidate will have experience in design program management, a track record of working with product design teams, and the ability to influence without authority.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead end-to-end management of complex, cross-functional design initiatives from concept through launch, ensuring on-time delivery while maintaining design quality and craft.
  2. Develop and implement scalable design processes that foster creativity, efficiency, and collaboration across teams.
  3. Partner with design leadership to define design priorities aligned with key company goals.
  4. Manage design resource allocation and capacity planning across multiple concurrent initiatives.
  5. Orchestrate and build team rituals that focus on strategic alignment, decision-making, and execution, ensuring teams are on track while resolving blocks that impede progress.

Skills

Required

  • design program management
  • design operations
  • project management
  • Agile
  • Jira
  • Confluence

What the JD emphasized

  • 5+ years of professional experience in design program management, design operations, or related roles
  • A track record of working directly with product design teams and cross-functional partners, ensuring delivery of high-quality design solutions
  • Proven track record managing complex, multi-stakeholder design projects in consumer technology or gaming companies
  • Demonstrated ability to influence without authority and drive consensus across diverse teams