Creative Director

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 looking for a Creative Director to lead the daily creative output and operations of our in-house studio team. This is a pivotal, hands-on leadership role for someone who is equal parts creative leader and operational thinker, someone who can steer creative direction, build scalable systems, and ensure work moves seamlessly from brief to delivery without sacrificing craft.

You will oversee and mentor a multidisciplinary team of art directors, copywriters, and designers - raising the bar on quality while keeping the engine running. This means you’re as comfortable giving sharp creative feedback as you are triaging a packed production queue. You have an advanced understanding of design, copy, and video editing, and you know what great looks like across all of them.

Your ability to coordinate creative workflows, obsess over details, and lead with a collaborative mentality will be integral as we bring millions of people together through shared experiences.

You will:

• Steer, review, and approve creative work across design, copy, and video - ensuring everything that ships meets the highest standards of quality, brand alignment, and strategic relevance.
• Build and refine scalable creative workflows, processes, and systems that enable operational excellence and speed of delivery without sacrificing craft.
• Manage incoming briefs, set priorities, and balance workloads so that your team can focus on doing their best work within agreed-upon timelines.
• Proactively identify creative and operational bottlenecks, removing obstacles before they slow your team down.
• Mentor and develop your direct reports through continuous feedback, coaching, and performance management setting a high bar and helping your team reach it.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional partners across marketing, product, and business teams to ensure creative work is strategically aligned and on-brand across all surfaces.
• Champion a team culture rooted in diversity, inclusion, creative courage, and mutual respect.

You Have:

• 12+ years of experience in creative roles with 3-5 years in a leadership or management position, ideally at a brand, agency, or production studio. You have a portfolio or body of work that demonstrates strong creative judgment and range.
• Proven experience managing multidisciplinary teams (designers, copywriters, editors) - not just overseeing output, but actively developing talent and elevating the quality of work across the team.
• A deep, practiced understanding of design, copywriting, and video editing. You don’t need to be an expert in all three, but you need to know what excellent looks like in each and give feedback that makes the work better.
• Experience building and scaling creative workflows and operational systems - you know how to bring structure to creative chaos without killing the energy.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills. You’re comfortable presenting creative work, advocating for your team’s recommendations, and navigating feedback with confidence and composure.
• Experience managing vendor and agency relationships, with the ability to brief, direct, and quality-check external partners to the same standard as in-house work.
• High fluency in creative tools including Figma, Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, Premiere Pro), Google Slides, and Keynote.
• An obsession with craft: You hold yourself and your team to a high standard. You recognize that being detail-oriented is a badge of honor, and that going the extra mile to produce top-tier work even on tight timelines is non-negotiable.
• A thoughtful, resilient mindset. You understand that creative work is iterative, feedback is a gift, and the ability to operate nimbly in ambiguity is what separates good managers from great ones.
• A self-starter mentality: You’re comfortable owning your domain end-to-end, managing competing priorities, and making smart decisions without needing to be told what to do next.

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

$230,660—$269,570 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.

For US based roles only, please note the Company may not be able to employ candidates for this role who have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.