Senior Program Manager

San Mateo, CA · San Mateo · USD 163,940-200,840 / year · 3+ years experience · Full-time · Onsite · Posted Oct 6, 2026

At a glance

Roblox Live creates the moments that bring Roblox together. We turn music, entertainment, culture, and the creativity of our community into new ways to play and connect. From major platform celebrations to live performances and breakout creator moments, we give players something to show up for, experience with friends, and come back to.
We’re a small, fast-moving team with the ambition to shape the future of live experiences on Roblox. We bring ideas to life with creators and partners, build the technology that makes them possible, and turn what works into tools that let the creator community take it further.
The Role
We’re looking for a Senior Program Manager to turn our slate of live experiences into a coordinated program. You will own the calendar, cross-team dependencies, budget ask, risk register, executive communications, and post-event playbooks. You will help shape new programs early, bringing ideas on formats and audience hooks, then build the plan that takes them through launch and learning.
This is a senior individual contributor role for someone who can turn ambiguity into a plan and lead across teams through trust and judgment. You’ll work closely with creative, content, product, engineering, marketing, safety, and external partners. You’ll align the program around shared goals, partner with the Live Ops Producer on launch readiness and event-day escalations, and give leadership a clear view of progress and decisions.
You Will:

Roblox is looking for a Senior Program Manager to turn their slate of live experiences into a coordinated program.
You will own the calendar, cross-team dependencies, budget ask, risk register, executive communications, and post-event playbooks.
This is a senior individual contributor role for someone who can turn ambiguity into a plan and lead across teams through trust and judgment.

Turn the programming slate into a forward calendar with clear phases, milestones, decision gates, and owners.
Help define each program’s audience, goals, and success measures while bringing creative and operational judgment to early concepts.
Build and maintain one shared view of program status, establishing how workstream owners update plans and track commitments.
Run focused planning sessions, workstream reviews, and recaps that keep decisions moving.
Consolidate staffing, studio, vendor, and production estimates into a program budget request and track spend against the approved plan.
Maintain the risk register, including assumptions, issues, dependencies, and mitigation plans.
Give executives concise updates on outcomes, progress, risks, and decisions needed.
Establish decision owners and escalation paths before launch and support the Live Ops Producer during live events.
Lead retrospectives and publish post-event readouts with Data Science and functional leads.
Turn lessons and operating runbooks into reusable program playbooks.

7+ years in program management, production, or live operations, including 3+ years leading live events, recurring content programs, or partner programs.
A track record of building and running complex programs across creative, technical, and business teams, with multiple initiatives moving at once.
Experience consolidating budget requests, tracking program financials, and managing risks and dependencies through delivery.
Strong judgment about scope, priorities, and escalation, with the ability to make progress before every detail is settled.
Proven ability to lead without formal authority and build lasting trust with internal teams and external partners.
Clear writing and executive communication, with experience connecting program activity to measurable outcomes.
Fluency with program management tools such as Jira, Airtable, Asana, or equivalents, and the ability to build practical tracking and reporting systems.

Experience in gaming, creator platforms, entertainment, live events, or esports
Experience building a program or operating model from scratch that other teams adopted
Familiarity with Roblox and its player and creator communities
Experience evaluating partner programs or creative concepts through shared goals and scorecards

Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday