Lead, Strategic Initiatives

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.

Roblox is the ultimate virtual universe where imagination reigns supreme. Our mission is to build a human co-experience platform that enables billions of users to connect, create, and express themselves through immersive 3D experiences. We are building the future of communication, entertainment, and commerce.

The Role:

We are seeking an exceptional, highly strategic, and operationally-driven Strategic Initiative Lead to partner directly with the Chief Business Officer (CBO). This critical role will operate as the CBO's right hand to:

• Support our CBO in strategic planning and operational excellence across his teams and partner functions.

• Drive high-priority initiatives across the organizations that run all of Roblox’ foundational money-related systems (e.g., Advertising, Avatar Marketplace, Developer Monetization, Payments) and business teams (ads sales, Business development, Prepaid card sales).

The ideal candidate possesses a unique blend of structured thinking, problem solving acumen, financial rigor, business operations, and a deep understanding of high-growth consumer technology. You will be instrumental in developing complex economic and financial models that directly impact the health and growth of the Roblox economy, the creator community, and the company's long-term value. This is a unique opportunity to shape the core economic engine of a globally recognized, category-defining company. You will work on problems with real-world scale and impact, directly advising a C-level executive on the systems that support millions of developers and users worldwide.

You Will

• Business Modeling: Partner with the CBO to design, develop, and refine financial and economic models (e.g., opportunity sizing, trade-off analysis, impact estimates,) crucial for supporting product and business tradeoff discussions.

• Operational Execution: Drive the execution of strategic projects and cross-functional initiatives stemming from the CBO's priorities and represent the CBO point of view in different forums and in front of different stakeholders (e.g., Product, Engineering, Finance, Legal).

• Business Operations & Analysis: Serve as the central hub for the CBO's team, managing planning cycles, budget reviews and performance tracking.

• Executive Communications: Prepare and organize materials for the Board of Directors, executive staff meetings, and key investor/internal reviews. Own the narrative and articulation of the Economy, Ads and Business teams’ strategy and progress.

• Stakeholder Management: Facilitate effective communication and collaboration between the CBO and other functional leaders, ensuring resource allocation and strategic focus are aligned with the company's goals.

You Have

• 6-10 years of total experience in highly analytical, strategic, and operational roles.

• Direct experience in a top-tier Investment Bank or Consulting firm, or an equivalent background in corporate development, Finance, or management consulting focused on technology.

• Business Ops Experience: Proven track record of operationalizing strategic goals and leading complex, cross-functional projects in a fast-paced environment.

• Financial & Economic Acumen: Extremely high degree of knowledge in corporate finance, microeconomics, and financial modeling. Must be comfortable building models from scratch and challenging underlying assumptions.

• Technology Background: experience working within a high-growth consumer technology, platform, or marketplace company (e.g., social media, e-commerce, or FinTech).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a Chief of Staff or Director of Strategy roles.

• MBA from a top-tier (Ivy League or equivalent) university is a plus.

• Understanding and interest in virtual economies, creator ecosystems/ monetization and platform dynamics.

For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits as described on this page.

Annual Salary Range
$301,510—$339,670 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.