Manager, Moderation Escalations

Roblox Roblox · Consumer · Gurgaon, India · Safety Operations (Non-Tech)

Manager for Roblox's Moderation Escalations program, focusing on building and evolving a global safety program from the ground up. The role involves leading a specialized team, transforming escalations into strategic insights, identifying root causes of moderation errors, and partnering with Product and Engineering to improve tooling and safety systems. The goal is to transition the program from transactional response to proactive prevention and defect reduction.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build and drive a world-class global escalations and insights program, evolving our escalation systems from v0 into a sophisticated, industry-leading defect reduction engine.
  2. Transition the program from transactional response to proactive prevention by identifying root causes of moderation errors and partnering with cross-functional teams to implement systemic fixes.
  3. Recruit, hire, and lead a specialized team of Moderation Escalation Specialists, fostering a culture of high accountability, rapid problem-solving, and continuous learning.
  4. Transform raw escalation data into actionable insights, providing leadership with visibility into emerging safety trends and the effectiveness of our current policies.
  5. Partner deeply with Product and Engineering to improve investigation tooling and safety systems, ensuring our technical infrastructure keeps pace with emerging global risks

Skills

Required

  • 8 years of experience in an operations or policy role in Trust and Safety or content moderation, with a focus on content safety moderation workflows and threat hunting.
  • 2-4 years experience managing people to include coaching and development.
  • Strong program management skills, with experience leading projects at scale
  • Experience developing processes to improve operational efficiency
  • Experience using data to lead decision-making
  • Strong collaboration skills, with the ability to work with cross-functional teams, specifically product, engineering, and BPO workforces

Nice to have

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

What the JD emphasized

  • world-class global safety program from the ground up
  • systems and a specialized team that didn't exist two years ago
  • transform escalations into strategic insights and defect reduction initiatives
  • industry-leading responses
  • senior moderation lead
  • evolving our escalation systems from v0 into a sophisticated, industry-leading defect reduction engine
  • proactive prevention
  • identifying root causes of moderation errors
  • systemic fixes
  • specialized team of Moderation Escalation Specialists
  • high accountability
  • rapid problem-solving
  • continuous learning
  • actionable insights
  • emerging safety trends
  • effectiveness of our current policies
  • improve investigation tooling and safety systems
  • technical infrastructure keeps pace with emerging global risks
  • industry-leading response times
  • high-quality resolutions
  • complex safety incidents
  • strict SLAs
  • highest standards of accuracy and empathy
  • senior Moderation lead in our India office
  • strategic guidance
  • mentorship
  • unified voice for the local moderation organization
  • exposure to graphic and/or objectionable content