We just lately held our third Roblox Week at headquarters in San Mateo. This semi-annual occasion brings our staff collectively to join and collaborate as we drive innovation and pursue our shared imaginative and prescient of reimagining how individuals come collectively.
Inventing What’s Subsequent
We opened Roblox Week with a City Corridor, the place CEO and Founder David Baszucki talked concerning the path forward of us to appreciate our imaginative and prescient. Whereas highlighting our progress up to now, he additionally mirrored on the innovation nonetheless required as we work towards a billion individuals connecting with each other all on the identical time, all on Roblox. David emphasised the significance of this work: “It is a essential second for humanity, and we have now a accountability to make use of our collective energy and tenacity to assist individuals construct actual, significant connections.”
Throughout City Corridor, our leaders additionally shared a number of the cutting-edge technical challenges we’re fixing right this moment, and the inventive innovations being constructed to appreciate a future the place Roblox is the place you go to search out others who’re all in favour of each what you’re and who you’re. It was thrilling to see product demos that showcased how we’re enabling extra immersive communication, expanded alternatives for our customers to precise themselves, and simplified methods to create and construct on our platform so anybody can deliver new worlds to life simply by describing them. All of this in a secure, civil, and welcoming surroundings.
A Shared Imaginative and prescient, One Important Product
David was joined by Arvind KC, who just lately began at Roblox as Chief Folks & Techniques Officer, for a fireplace chat concerning the firm’s most necessary asset, our individuals. KC talked about his distinctive position — one which sits on the intersection of expertise and other people management: “If you mix engineering rigor with deep empathy for our neighborhood, that’s the place the magic occurs. We goal to create an surroundings the place everybody is ready to thrive and attain their highest potential. By way of that, the corporate achieves its targets. If we get individuals and techniques proper, the remainder will circulate from there.”
Driving actual innovation requires a tradition of listening, fostering steady studying, and welcoming a variety of backgrounds, ideas, and expertise. KC stated “innovation requires brainstorming, and brainstorming requires a range of concepts and that each voice is heard.” David closed the session by reaffirming that in an effort to obtain our bold imaginative and prescient, we should proceed to construct a inventive and various workforce and foster an inclusive surroundings the place all voices can contribute to driving innovation at scale.
Togetherness Amplified
All week lengthy, our staff had the prospect to attend varied occasions on and round campus. After City Corridor, many groups throughout the corporate participated in “Innovation Cubicles,” brief displays that offered a peek into every staff’s day-to-day work. Staff have been in a position to study from teams up and down the stack, bridging collaboration gaps and provoking inventive downside fixing. In management periods, individuals managers got here collectively to share their learnings and insights with each other round values-driven management.
On Friday, we wrapped up a productive week with our annual summer time picnic to have fun innovation and, as David shared, “the unbelievable assortment of people who find themselves inventing the longer term collectively.” We are going to proceed to study and evolve collectively as a corporation, and are already trying ahead to the following Roblox Week!
Be part of us on our journey to reimagine the way in which individuals come collectively, with memorable moments of connection and collaboration alongside the way in which. Our proficient staff is rising, go to the Roblox careers web site to discover open alternatives.
