# Director of Business Development, Payments at Roblox

- Company: Roblox (roblox.com)
- Location: San Mateo, CA, United States
- Places: San Mateo, United States
- Posted: 2026-02-19
- Apply: https://careers.roblox.com/jobs/7604271?gh_jid=7604271
- Page: https://ye.saranatour.dev/jobs/director-of-business-development-payments-roblox-kn7acjgyedavfk6z5ekf5mc63d8hfg6p

## The posting

Director of Business Development, Payments
Roblox · San Mateo, CA, United States

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators.

At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device.We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there.

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.

Roblox is currently at a critical inflection point in its financial evolution. We recently achieved a significant payout milestone to our Creator community in 2025. To successfully build upon this momentum year over year while controlling our costs, a world-class payments and wallets ecosystem is essential to ensure frictionless transactions across the platform for our Users and Creators.

This role offers the rare opportunity to lead a **0-to-1 buildout** of a new payments division. If successful, you will transition Roblox from standard payment processing to a strategic orchestration model, utilizing AI-driven approach to optimize significant transaction cost.

Beyond cost savings, you will spearhead the transformation of our creator payouts, building a product designed to empower the livelihood of millions of developers through instant, transparent, and global financial access.

### **You Will**

- **Own Global Partnership Negotiation & Account Management:** Lead RFPs and high-stakes contractual negotiations with major global payment processors (e.g., Stripe, PayPal, etc) and financial institutions.
- **Build Payment Orchestration Strategy & Development:** Lead the transition from current legacy systems to a multi-partner orchestration system.
- **Transform Creator Payout :** Drive the business strategy and partnerships required to modernize our existing infrastructure into a proprietary, end-to-end financial platform for creators to run their businesses on Roblox

- **Lead Cross-Functional Enterprise Deal Execution:** Lead cross-functional deal teams comprising Legal, Finance, Privacy, and Engineering stakeholders.
- **Expand into Emerging Markets:** Develop a strategy for handling international currency exchange volatility and local payment methods in high-growth regions.
- **Bridge Business & Engineering:** Translate commercial opportunities into "second-level" technical requirements, such as ledger design and API integration standards.
- **Optimize Performance :** Implement a rigorous "Payment Excellence" framework to monitor authorization rates and fraud thresholds.
- **Future-Proofing for Agentic Commerce:** Evaluate and integrate emerging technologies, including AI agents and blockchain rails, into the payments strategy.

### **You Have**

- **10+ years of Business Development experience** specifically within the Consumer Financial Services, Digital Payments, Fintech, or Digital Wallet sectors
- **Proven track record of a 0-to-1 buildout** of a payments division or financial product line, demonstrating the ability to operate without established playbooks
- **Bilingual Fluency (Tec