Roblox Tech Lead Manager at Roblox leading the Ads Experience team responsible for monetization products including Ads Manager and creator monetization tools. Owns product delivery, technical health, and team growth.
Responsibilities
Build and lead a team of high-caliber software engineers. You'll be responsible for hiring, performance management, career development, and fostering an inclusive, high-output team culture.
Own product and engineering for Roblox Ads Manager, setting the roadmap and owning the full stack from campaign setup and targeting to budget controls and real-time reporting across self-serve, programmatic, and agency.
Build and own the creator ad monetization experience: the tools creators use to run ads in their experiences, and the systems that track and pay out their earnings correctly and on time.
Own the full software development lifecycle for your team. Balance rapid product iteration with long-term technical health, ensuring high-quality features ship on schedule.
Provide technical guidance on system design and frontend/backend architecture, ensuring the products handle complex forecasting, campaign management, and real-time reporting at scale.
Apply AI across the ecosystem, from Gen AI for multi-modal creatives to intelligent assistants that help advertisers and creators set up, optimize, and troubleshoot their campaigns and monetization.
Collaborate deeply with Product Management, Design, and Data Science to define the product vision, and bridge the gap between business requirements and technical implementation.
Qualification
BSAnnual Salary Range$295
Required
8+ years of software development experience, with 2+ years of experience in people management (hiring and performance management).
Experience delivering customer-facing web products end to end, with a solid understanding of the Ad Tech stack, campaign management, reporting, creative, ad serving, measurement, and ad delivery.
Experience building campaign management systems used by ad ops teams, advertisers, and agencies. This includes campaign setup, trafficking, and lifecycle management across direct, programmatic, and self-serve channels.
Proven ability to deliver APIs and UIs for campaign creation, editing, flighting, targeting, and budget management across simple and complex campaign structures.
Strong background in distributed systems and high-availability backend services (Go, C#, or similar), and an understanding of modern frontend architectures (React/TypeScript).
A passion for mentoring engineers and a proven ability to manage performance, navigate complex organizational challenges, and build a cohesive team.
Experience driving engineering best practices, including code reviews, testing strategies, and incident management for high-scale systems.
The ability to think like a product owner while maintaining strong technical rigor.
BS, MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
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.
