Policy Lead, Trust and Safety, User Generated Content

1 Month ago • 5-5 Years • Product Management

About the job

Job Description

The Trust & Safety team at Google works to identify and address the biggest challenges that threaten the safety and integrity of its products. As a Policy Lead, you'll play a key role in ensuring Google products are designed and used responsibly. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Product, Engineering, Legal, Government Affairs, and PR, to launch policies and standards related to user-generated content, addressing issues such as harmful content, privacy, and AI. You'll also work to mitigate safety, regulatory, and reputational risks, promoting trust in Google and ensuring the highest levels of user safety. This role requires a strong understanding of policy analysis, experience with technology, and the ability to navigate complex situations involving sensitive content.
Must have:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  • 5 years of experience in policy, legal, trust and safety, or technology environment
  • Excellent problem-solving and critical thinking skills
  • Experience with cloud technology
  • Experience with policy and knowledge of the technology sector and key policy issues affecting the internet
  • Ability to work with sensitive content and situations
Good to have:
  • JD or Master’s degree
  • Experience with advanced product/program management
  • Experience with policy or product roles
Perks:
  • Bonus
  • Equity
  • Benefits
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Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of experience in a policy, legal, trust and safety, or technology environment.

Preferred qualifications:

  • JD or Master’s degree.
  • 5 years of experience in relevant policy or product roles.
  • Experience with cloud technology.
  • Experience with policy and knowledge of the technology sector and key policy issues affecting the internet (e.g., harmful content, privacy, AI).
  • Experience with advanced product/program management.
  • Excellent problem-solving and critical thinking skills with attention to detail in an ever-changing environment.

About the job

Trust & Safety team members are tasked with identifying and taking on the biggest problems that challenge the safety and integrity of our products. They use technical know-how, excellent problem-solving skills, user insights, and proactive communication to protect users and our partners from abuse across Google products like Search, Maps, Gmail, and Google Ads. On this team, you're a big-picture thinker and strategic team-player with a passion for doing what’s right. You work globally and cross-functionally with Google engineers and product managers to identify and fight abuse and fraud cases at Google speed - with urgency. And you take pride in knowing that every day you are working hard to promote trust in Google and ensuring the highest levels of user safety.

Global Policy and Standards (GPS) works closely with stakeholders across Google (e.g., Product, Engineering, Legal, Government Affairs, PR) to launch external and internal policies and standards on how our products should be designed and used. We focus on a range of thematic issues from AI to content to privacy. While we leverage our cross-product scope to share good practices, find synergies, and harmonize approaches, we also adapt these approaches to meet the distinct ethos and user bases of each of Google's products.

In this role, you will help enable velocity and innovation while also mitigating safety, regulatory, and reputational risks.

At Google we work hard to earn our users’ trust every day. Trust & Safety is Google’s team of abuse fighting and user trust experts working daily to make the internet a safer place. We partner with teams across Google to deliver bold solutions in abuse areas such as malware, spam and account hijacking. A diverse team of Analysts, Policy Specialists, Engineers, and Program Managers, we work to reduce risk and fight abuse across all of Google’s products, protecting our users, advertisers, and publishers across the globe in over 40 languages.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $125,000-$185,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about .

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure policy analysis and recommendations consider all teams’ perspectives. Resolve high-profile policy issues coming from the public, regulators, users, customers and internal stakeholders.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to influence product decisions and prioritization and improve user experience.
  • Drive research and collaboration to set industry standards. Drive awareness and understanding of our product policies within Google and across our user base.
  • Advance education around the first principles that define our approach to trust risk areas.
  • Work with sensitive content or situations and potentially be exposed to graphic, controversial, or upsetting topics or content.
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$125.0K - $185.0K/yr (Outscal est.)
$155.0K/yr avg.
Washington, District of Columbia, United States

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