We not too long ago held our third Roblox Week at headquarters in San Mateo. This semi-annual occasion brings our workers 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 understand our imaginative and prescient. Whereas highlighting our progress to this point, 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: “This can be a vital second for humanity, and now we have 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 at present, and the inventive innovations being constructed to understand a future the place Roblox is the place you go to seek out others who’re serious about each what you might be and who you might be. It was thrilling to see product demos that showcased how we’re enabling extra immersive communication, expanded alternatives for our customers to specific themselves, and simplified methods to create and construct on our platform so anybody can convey new worlds to life simply by describing them. All of this in a secure, civil, and welcoming surroundings.
A Shared Imaginative and prescient, One Vital Product
David was joined by Arvind KC, who not too long ago began at Roblox as Chief Individuals & Programs Officer, for a hearth chat concerning the firm’s most vital asset, our individuals. KC talked about his distinctive position — one which sits on the intersection of know-how and other people management: “While you mix engineering rigor with deep empathy for our neighborhood, that’s the place the magic occurs. We purpose to create an surroundings the place everybody is ready to thrive and attain their highest potential. By that, the corporate achieves its targets. If we get individuals and techniques proper, the remaining 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 with the intention to obtain our bold imaginative and prescient, we should proceed to construct a inventive and numerous workforce and foster an inclusive surroundings the place all voices can contribute to driving innovation at scale.
Togetherness Amplified
All week lengthy, our workers had the prospect to attend numerous occasions on and round campus. After City Corridor, many groups throughout the corporate participated in “Innovation Cubicles,” brief shows that offered a peek into every crew’s day-to-day work. Workers had been in a position to be taught from teams up and down the stack, bridging collaboration gaps and galvanizing inventive drawback 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 rejoice innovation and, as David shared, “the unbelievable assortment of people who find themselves inventing the long run collectively.” We’ll proceed to be taught and evolve collectively as a company, and are already trying ahead to the subsequent Roblox Week!
Be a part of us on our journey to reimagine the best way individuals come collectively, with memorable moments of connection and collaboration alongside the best way. Our gifted crew is rising, go to the Roblox careers web site to discover open alternatives.