Icon Designer, Visual Systems at Roblox

<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.</span><strong> </strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.</span></p></div><p>At Roblox, the Visual Systems team defines the design and product visual language that shapes every experience on our platform, from color, typography, and iconography, to motion, grid, and shape. We transform these elements into scalable assets, reusable patterns, and clear guidance that elevate quality, performance, and consistency across products. This team is a part of our Design Studio, a multidisciplinary organization that is responsible for the visual language and expression of our brand and product.</p> <p>As an Icon Designer on Visual Systems, you will own and evolve the iconography that defines the Roblox product experience. You will lead the design, execution, and systemization of our icon libraries, partnering closely with product designers and engineers to ensure every icon is crafted with precision, consistency, and Roblox's unique identity in mind. Being part of a multidisciplinary team, you will also collaborate with brand designers, motion designers, and editors to extend iconographic work across a variety of surfaces and outputs. Your work will ensure that every icon — from utility glyphs to expressive product marks — reflects Roblox's character with craft, accessibility, and performance at the forefront. You have a passion for icon craft, a rigorous and systematic approach to design, and deep fluency in tools like Figma. This role reports to the Head of Design Studio.</p> <p><strong>You Will:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Own, evolve, and execute icons across our Builder Icon Library and broader product icon ecosystem.</li> <li>Define and maintain icon standards — grid, stroke, weight, optical sizing, and style — that scale across platforms and use cases.</li> <li>Translate iconographic decisions into clearly documented specs, usage guidelines, and reusable Figma assets that enable teams to apply icons consistently and confidently.</li> <li>Partner with product designers and engineers to integrate icons into features from exploration through launch, ensuring quality and fidelity in the final experience.</li> <li>Lead visual QA for iconography, ensuring consistency, accessibility, and performance across all platforms and resolutions.</li> <li>Identify opportunities to raise the craft quality of existing icons through audits, refinements, and improved implementation details.</li> <li>Collaborate with Brand Design and Foundation partners to keep product iconography aligned with the broader visual language.</li> <li>Contribute to other visual primitives (color, typography, motion, grid, shape) in support of the wider Visual Systems team.</li> </ul> <p><strong>You Have:</strong></p> <ul> <li>3+ years in icon design or visual design, with a portfolio that demonstrates a strong body of systemized iconographic work at product scale.</li> <li>Deep experience building, managing, and executing icon systems — including grid frameworks, naming conventions, and multi-platform delivery.</li> <li>Strong craft in icon construction: geometry, optical balance, stroke consistency, and pixel-level precision.</li> <li>Proficiency in Figma and relevant vector tools, with experience taking icon work through implementation with engineering partners.</li> <li>Clear communication and documentation habits, with a collaborative approach to working across product, brand, and engineering teams.</li> </ul> <p><strong>You Are:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Obsessed with icon craft — attuned to the details of geometry, weight, and optical correctness that separate good icons from great ones.</li> <li>Systematic in your approach, with a strong eye for consistency, scalability, and the rules that make a library cohesive.</li> <li>Comfortable owning a significant, high-visibility area of the visual system while contributing to broader team initiatives.</li> <li>Skilled at partnering with product designers and engineers to ship icon work with fidelity and performance intact.</li> <li>Open to feedback and committed to cross-functional collaboration.</li> <li>Energized by the idea that a well-crafted icon, seen by millions, is a meaningful expression of Roblox's identity.</li> </ul><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><p>For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: 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. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits as described on <strong><a href="https://careers.roblox.com/total-rewards">this page</a></strong>.</p></div><div class="title">Annual Salary Range</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$140,450</span><span class="divider">&mdash;</span><span>$176,940 USD</span></div></div></div><div class="content-conclusion"><p>Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).</p> <p>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.</p> <p>For US based roles only, please note the Company may not be able to employ candidates for this role who have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.</p></div>