Strategic Sourcing Manager

Job Summary

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.

About the Role

Lead the contract and pricing negotiations of software and tools. Work with cross-functional teams to ramp efficiently. Demonstrate domain expertise in software licensing modeling and contract negotiations. Analyze and interpret spend and cost data, including understanding of Total Cost of Ownership. Work collaboratively across Roblox and particularly within the Roblox Corp Eng organization. Show strong contracting experience and understanding of business risks and address them on legal documents with potential suppliers. Manage the review and approval of Master Service Agreements, Terms of Service, NDAs, and End User License Agreements with our vendors prior to business being initiated. Drive price and term negotiation processes to ensure that Roblox’s pricing is best in class and with risks mitigated on contract. Centralize planning and purchasing for CorpEng-related end-user hardware (laptops/desktops/peripherals), QA and test devices, event hardware, and device-lab equipment. Participate in essential activities including assisting in annual budgetary validations and trending of actuals. Interpret software license agreements and identify rules, obligations, and product metrics to ensure compliance with all software licenses agreements and software usages. Identify data inaccuracies preventing smooth workflow and implement scalable solutions. Build documentation and quick reference guides around Sourcing and Procurement, Contract Negotiation, OpEx > CapEx.

Requirements

• A Bachelor's Degree or equivalent job experience
• A minimum of 6 years of Strategic Sourcing & Negotiation related experience
• Conceptual knowledge of software licensing models
• Software and Tools and Corporate Hardware (laptops, peripherals, etc) procurement experience
• Experience working with Saas, On-Prem Software, and major OEM vendors (Microsoft, Apple, Dell)
• Advanced knowledge of Excel, Google sheets or other data analysis tools used to coordinate and combine large data sets into actionable results
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Extensive negotiation experience

Qualifications

• Must have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories or support future H-1B sponsorship

Benefits

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.

Pay

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.

Annual Salary Range $159,850—$193,930 USD

Schedule

Roblox provides flexible schedules for its employees. Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).