Critical Harms Instructional Designer

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.

Reporting to the Manager - Moderator Performance, the Instructional Designer’s responsibilities include providing course design support to create engaging learning environments that are informed by desired learning outcomes. This includes liaising with subject experts, outlining objectives, and providing feasible timeframes.

To be successful as an Instructional Designer, you should understand how to use business partners to redesign courses, develop new courses or curricula, and create classroom and on-demand training materials. This role will focus on supporting our Critical Harms teams, who focus on the highest risk critical issues. You will implement learning interventions across broad geographies and multifaceted disciplines. Your learning interventions must produce real-world results for our Trust and Safety Operations team and support vendors. To be successful, you will have strong project management abilities and excellent technical writing and research skills.

Please Note: This role may review graphic, controversial, and sometimes offensive content in line with Roblox’s content moderation practices.

You Will

• Take ownership of the full curriculum lifecycle, including development & implementation, gathering feedback, monitoring/evaluating, measuring impact, and managing changes.
• Consult with partners and subject matter experts to determine when a learning intervention is and IS NOT necessary.
• Leverage and iterate shared frameworks to deliver ILT courses, facilitator guides, Train the Trainer guides, resource packs, supporting documentation, eLearns, and other scaled learning interventions.
• Build new learning resources to maximize content retention and understanding.
• Use the most up-to-date practices to measure training effectiveness, both for the learner and the business.
  
  

You Have

• 5+ years of proven experience in Instructional Design.
• 5+ years of demonstrated experience building learning materials for a scaling, globally distributed, workforce - preference for experience with an operations team.
• Experience in Trust & Safety, Content Moderation, and/or Critical Harms topics (child endangerment, suicide and self harm, terrorism and violent extremism, etc.)
• Experience with modern learning tools (Captivate, Articulate, LMS, Adobe Suite, etc.).
• The ability to build learning interventions end-to-end (from needs analysis to measurement).
• Familiarity with curriculum management best practices (measurement, audits, change management, etc.).
• Degree or equivalent experience in Education or a related discipline.
  
  

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.

Annual Salary Range

$158,820—$201,920 USD

Roles that are based in our San Mateo, CA Headquarters are in-office Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional in-office on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).

You’ll Love

• Industry-leading compensation package
• Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
• A rewarding 401k program
• Flexible vacation policy (varies by exemption status)
• Roflex - Flexible and supportive work policy
• Roblox Admin badge for your avatar
• At Roblox HQ:
• Free catered lunches five times a week and several fully stocked kitchens with unlimited snacks
• Onsite fitness center and fitness program credit
• Annual CalTrain Go Pass
  

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 for all candidates during the interview process.