Critical Harms Investigations & Incident Management Junior Specialist
San Mateo, CA - USA
Job Summary
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 were 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. Were 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 youll 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.
Robloxs Safety Operations team is dedicated to protecting our users from individuals who want to harm others. The Critical Harms Intelligence Investigations and Operations (CHIIOPS) team applies subject matter expertise to our highest-level risks and works with cross-functional partners to identify and mitigate these actors. As part of our commitment to safety we are looking for a specialist with an investigators mindset skills and curiosity to investigate and respond to some of our highest-risk escalations. You will work with teams and leaders across the company to quickly and professionally respond to urgent requests for support and balance competing priorities to get the job done. You will share findings with intel analysts to support behavioral analysis development to help identify risks across the platform. You will report to the Critical Harms Intelligence Investigations and Operations Manager.
Please Note: This role may review graphic controversial and sometimes offensive content in line with Robloxs content moderation practices.
You Will:
Incident Investigation and Triage
- Support then lead rapid investigations into critical and complex incidents including but not limited to threats against child safety violent extremism and other high-severity harms.
- Utilize internal tools data analysis and open-source intelligence (OSINT) techniques to gather evidence establish facts and determine the root cause of incidents.
- Act as the primary point of contact for relevant parties across the company to include company leadership.
- Ensure all investigations are documented thoroughly accurately and completed in a timely manner.
Emergency Response and Coordination
- Operate within a 24/7 on-call rotation to respond immediately to high-risk and/or time-sensitive incidents that pose significant risk to users the platform or the company.
- Lead incident response by coordinating cross-functional stakeholders to ensure a unified and effective investigation and response.
- Draft and deliver real-time high-stakes communications to leadership regarding incident status impact assessment and mitigation efforts.
- Develop test and maintain robust incident response playbooks and protocols for various critical harms scenarios.
- Support detailed post-mortem reviews (Root Cause Analysis) of investigations to identify areas for improvement in process policy or technology.
You Have:
- A Bachelors Degree is required or in lieu of a degree a minimum of 1 year of relevant experience in investigations incident management and/or policy enforcement on a social platform.
- Experience managing high-pressure sensitive and complex investigations with moderate to high levels of supervision.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical and sensitive issues clearly to executive audiences and non-technical partners.
- Demonstrated ability to use data analysis internal dashboards and investigation tools to support fact-finding.
- Familiarity with online safety issues to include exposure to high-severity risk content is preferred.
- Strong project management skills strong prioritization acumen and the ability to build processes from the ground up.
- Bachelors degree or equivalent experience.
Required Experience:
Junior IC
About Company
Roblox is the ultimate virtual universe that lets you create, share experiences with friends, and be anything you can imagine. Join millions of people and discover an infinite variety of immersive experiences created by a global community!