ROBLOX Corporation

Manager, Editorial

ROBLOX Corporation • $186K — $228K *
Media
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of professional writing experience in English, journalism, communications, or related field.
  • Background in communications, public relations, speechwriting, or journalism.
  • Writing samples showcasing consumer-driven content across diverse topics.
  • Demonstrated experience collaborating with cross-functional teams and managing feedback effectively.
  • Ability to adapt and iterate on copywriting with resilience and diligence.
  • Strong project management skills for handling multiple assignments through approval processes.
  • Exceptional attention to detail, delivering clean and professional copy.

Responsibilities

  • Enhance the Roblox brand by creating clear and compelling copy about products and innovations.
  • Collaborate with various partners to align on messaging strategies to meet goals.
  • Write engaging content tailored for press, users, and creators, adapting tone and style as needed.
  • Clarify project requirements and deliverables when strategy lacks clarity.
  • Report directly to the Senior Manager, Editorial and contribute to team initiatives.

Benefits

  • Eligible for equity compensation.
  • Comprehensive benefits package as outlined on Roblox's benefits page.
  • Flexible onsite work schedule with required attendance Tuesday through Thursday.
Full Job Description
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).

About ROBLOX Corporation

Roblox Corporation is a video game company that operates a massively multiplayer online game platform. The platform allows users to create and play games in a virtual world, with a focus on user-generated content. Roblox was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California. The company has grown rapidly in recent years, and now has over 100 million monthly active users. In 2021, Roblox went public through a direct listing on the New York Stock Exchange.
Learn more about ROBLOX Corporation
Size
960 employees
Market Cap
$15.6 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$242.8 million
Founded
2004
Revenue
$727 million
NASDAQ

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