Trust and Safety Manager, Platform Enforcement
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 10 years of experience in a policy, legal, Trust and Safety, or technology environment
- 2 years of experience in leadership and people management with a focus on hiring, mentoring, and retaining talent.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience deploying technical solutions, including AI to solve large scale problems.
- Experience leading cross-functional projects across organizational boundaries.
- Experience managing a medium sized team consisting of analysts and Trust and Safety experts with the ability to work independently and complete projects from beginning to end and in a timely manner.
- Solid understanding of how brand safety works for advertisers on internet platforms.
- Ability to navigate and influence cross-team stakeholders at higher levels with excellent written, verbal, and communication skills to clearly communicate technical concepts with multiple cross-regional and cross-functional stakeholders.
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.
As a manager within Trust & Safety Ads, you work with a global team to ensure that our advertising policies are enforced effectively to support both Users and Advertisers. You’ll drive multi-quarter projects that create an effective balance between user safety and customer experiences. You’ll manage a team that tackles risk by deploying AI solutions and other long term solutions to take on fraud and content safety at scale. You’ll work globally and cross-functionally with stakeholders across multiple teams including engineering, product, legal, and sales teams. This role will require occasional on-call work on weekends & holidays on a rotational basis and you will be exposed to graphic, controversial, and/or upsetting content for policy reviews. Due to the global nature of the team, you will engage with stakeholders and peers beyond the general working hours.
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 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.
Responsibilities
- Manage a team of analysts working to protect users from policy violating content, through development of actionable intelligence and subsequent investigations and enforcement. Develop enforcement strategies to take on large scale content violations and fraudulent behavior at scale, ensuring high accuracy in decisions.
- Develop strategies to deploy AI solutions to take on fraud and policy violating content at scale. Identify improvement opportunities to plug gaps in product features, thus ensuring a safe design for our users.
- Responsible for handling incoming urgent escalations from advertisers, users, regulators, and public relations. Lead projects and cross-functional initiatives within Trust & Safety, interacting with senior stakeholders from Engineering, Legal, Product teams and more.
- Partner with our policy development team to launch updated policies to improve user safety or meet current regulatory requirements.
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