Working at Roblox: Meet Matt Brown

Matt Brown is the Senior Director of Solution on the Roblox Market team. His job entails building guaranteed people can obtain the apparel and components they need to personalize their avatar, whether it’s the hottest and best creations from the vogue business owners in our community or a person of the many new Layered Clothes choices now obtainable on our platform. We spoke with Matt to master far more about his team and what he enjoys most about performing at Roblox.

What does the Roblox Marketplace group do?

The Roblox Market group is dependable for all of the material end users can receive for totally free or for Robux (our virtual currency) on the system. We also oversee the applications, pipelines, analytics, etc. that permit material creators in our community to establish effective companies on Roblox.

What is 1 of the most attention-grabbing factors about operating on your crew?

Our work on the Roblox Marketplace crew spans a lot of unique responsibilities and skill sets, so what’s most appealing to me is observing how adaptable we want to be in our working day-to-day function. I’m frequently amazed by how effortlessly our engineers can seamlessly navigate the intricacies of anything from the UX for trading things to the math and logic driving 3rd-occasion resales of group-designed merchandise. On the product or service side, we also get to wrangle all those identical units and get the job done directly with the creator neighborhood as they support to outline our forthcoming functions.

How is your encounter at Roblox unique from other roles you’ve had? 

I get a chance to interact straight with the local community though also building systems that can have a material beneficial impact on their life at scale, no matter whether which is monetary—by way of systems and devices that give them the chance to develop businesses to help by themselves—or by producing mechanisms that preserve each creators and consumers harmless from poor actors who are trying to do the opposite.

What are some of the most impactful tasks you have labored on at Roblox?

There have been many noteworthy jobs over the a long time, but three straight away arrive to head. I was part of the work that brought non-blocky characters (i.e., “Rthro”) to the platform. This was specifically important since these people broadened the alternatives of Roblox past the traditional blocky aesthetic. Another task I got to operate on was Layered Clothes. I was the Senior Director of Item for Avatar and Market when we laid out the vision for Layered Garments pretty much 3 years in the past. We went through a lot of iterations with a objective of offering this mad new ability to users, whilst also performing anything we could to make sure all of the experiences and avatar customization the community has invested in prior continued to function as seamlessly as probable. And and lastly, I relished opening the 3D avatar market to user-produced material, in particular because it modified the way I see neighborhood.

What’s a single matter you love most about the organization society below? 

I enjoy that we’re all heading in the identical direction. I have by no means worked wherever wherever it was so very clear that anyone wants to develop a location exactly where anyone can be by themselves no make any difference who they want to be or what they want to do.

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