Manager, Editorial

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.

As an Editor on Roblox’s Corporate Communications team, you’ll be part of the team creating content to support the company’s goals and narratives in several key areas, including product innovations, AI, safety, creator community, and our users. This hands-on role is pivotal in crafting clear, concise, authentic copy at scale. 

You will collaborate with Communications and Marketing partners, company executives, product leads, and other business partners to strategically align on compelling messaging and content that tells the world about Roblox. Your unwavering attention to detail, project management skills, collaborative mentality, and passion for clear, persuasive writing will be integral to our mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility.

You Will

• Enhance the overall Roblox brand by crafting clear, compelling copy about our products, innovations, etc.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners across the organization to align on the best strategy and messaging to achieve our goals
• Write for press, user, and creator audiences, and switch easily between them
• Work with cross-functional partners to clarify requirements and deliverables when there is ambiguity or disconnection on the best strategy.
• You will report directly to the Senior Manager, Editorial
  
  

You Have

• 5+ years of professional writing experience with a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in English, journalism, communications, or a related field.
• Experience from the communications, public relations, speechwriting, or journalism industries.
• Writing samples that showcase clear, compelling consumer-driven content across various topics.
• Practice working with cross-functional teams and stakeholders, accepting feedback and direction gracefully and giving it diplomatically. You are an expert at managing conflicting feedback and bringing stakeholders to alignment.
• A thoughtful and resilient mindset. You understand that copywriting is iterative and have the ability to operate nimbly.
• Project management skills: You are comfortable working independently and can track multiple assignments as they move through several rounds of approvals on different deadlines, and still produce high-quality deliverables. 
• Attention to detail: You make the copy editor’s job easy because you deliver clean copy.

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$186,620—$228,550 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.