Proactive Moderation Operations Specialist

Roblox
Gurugram +1 more

Who this role is best for

Aimed at mid-level content safety professionals who can balance policy enforcement with threat detection, and thrive in office-based, on-call environments.

Best fit for

  • Mid-level content safety professionals with 3+ years of threat hunting and policy enforcement experience
    — “3+ years of experience in content moderation, trust & safety, or a similar field, ideally with exposure to content safety moderation workflows and threat hunting”
  • Candidates with strong cross-functional collaboration skills and a background in product or engineering teams
    — “Strong collaboration skills, with the ability to work with cross-functional teams, specifically product, engineering, and BPO workforces”
  • Individuals who can interpret grey-area policies and adapt to shifting priorities and abuse trends
    — “Develop deep, hands-on expertise in our proactive moderation tooling and processes, and help interpret grey-area policies as new situations arise”

Things to consider

  • On-call work is required at weekends on a rotational basis, which may impact work-life balance
    — “This role requires on-call work at weekends on a rotational basis”
  • The role involves exposure to graphic or objectionable content, which may be a concern for some candidates
    — “This role involves exposure to graphic and/or objectionable content”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience with content safety workflows and threat detection in your resume and interview responses
    — “ideally with exposure to content safety moderation workflows and threat hunting”
  • Emphasize your ability to interpret grey-area policies and make nuanced decisions
    — “help interpret grey-area policies as new situations arise”
  • Demonstrate your capacity to manage multiple cases efficiently and meet throughput targets
    — “Consistently meet your quality and throughput targets, and use data to inform your moderation decisions”
  • Showcase your analytical and critical thinking skills with examples of deep-dive investigations
    — “Strong analytical and critical thinking skills, with the ability to conduct deep-dive investigations”
  • Demonstrate your ability to surface bugs and feature requests to improve operations
    — “Surface bugs, feature limitations, and feature requests, and collaborate on solutions that improve operations”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · TeamLevel · Mid

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What success looks like

  • accurate moderation
  • reduced false positives
Typical background
3+ years of content moderation, trust & safety

Skills & requirements

Required

Content ModerationPolicy InterpretationData AnalysisQuality AssuranceRoot Cause Analysis

Preferred

Emc ExposureManufacturing Test

Stack & domain

Content ModerationTrust & SafetyProactive ModerationUser-generated ContentPolicy InterpretationData AnalysisThreat HuntingThird-party CollaborationMetrics-driven Content ModerationAttention To DetailSound JudgmentProblem-solvingCommunicationTeamworkDigital ExperiencesContent SafetyModeration Tools

About the role

Original posting from Roblox

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.

As a Specialist on the Proactive Moderation Operations team, you will carry out the day-to-day work of our proactive human moderation efforts. You will own multiple moderation cases at a time, taking each from ticket creation through moderation, QA, and golden labeling. You will build deep expertise in our proactive moderation tooling and processes, apply rapid and accurate labels to user-generated content, and help interpret grey-area policies and detect and moderate new abuse trends. Acting as an expert judge on every case you handle, you will weigh tradeoffs between false positive rates, speed, and urgency, and surface bugs, feature limitations, and feature requests that help improve overall operations.

You will report to the Lead, Proactive Moderation Operations. The role is based out of our Gurugram, India office and follows a rotational on-call work schedule.

You Will:

Manage multiple moderation cases at once and own each one end to end, including creating moderation tickets, moderating those tickets, conducting QA, golden labeling, reporting on the latest trends and data, and more

Shift fluidly between different policy violation areas as priorities and abuse trends change

Stay current on developing, sensitive real-world events and factor that context into your case management and moderation decisions

Apply rapid and accurate labels to user-generated content, serving as an expert judge who weighs tradeoffs between false positive rates, speed, and urgency

Execute and help refine the workflows our content safety moderation response teams use to ensure timely and effective moderation of user-generated content

Develop deep, hands-on expertise in our proactive moderation tooling and processes, and help interpret grey-area policies as new situations arise

Proactively hunt for threats and undetected abuse by leveraging internal data sets, open-source intelligence, and third-parties

Partner with third-parties and cross-functional teammates to conduct effective, metrics-driven content moderation

Surface bugs, feature limitations, and feature requests, and collaborate on solutions that improve operations and enhance the safety of our users

Consistently meet your quality and throughput targets, and use data to inform your moderation decisions

This role requires on-call work at weekends on a rotational basis

This role involves exposure to graphic and/or objectionable content

You Have:

Bachelor's degree in business, operations, or a related field

3+ years of experience in content moderation, trust & safety, or a similar field, ideally with exposure to content safety moderation workflows and threat hunting

Strong attention to detail and sound judgment, with the ability to apply policies consistently and accurately under time pressure

Experience following and improving processes that support operational efficiency

Comfort using data to inform day-to-day decision-making

Strong collaboration skills, with the ability to work with cross-functional teams, specifically product, engineering, and BPO workforces

Strong analytical and critical thinking skills, with the ability to conduct deep-dive investigations, and make sound, evidence-based decisions in ambiguous and fast-paced environments.

Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).

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.

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.

Source: Roblox careers

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