Policy Development Lead, Trust and Safety Youth

Google LLC; Mountain View (CA); Sur place; USD 136 000 - 196 000; Plein temps

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Equity

Bonus target

Benefits

Résumé du poste

Google is seeking a Policy Development Lead for its Trust & Safety organization in Mountain View. The role involves creating global policies on age appropriateness and child safety, assessing risk for new products, and collaborating with cross-functional teams worldwide to shape content policy and enforcement.

You will work on YouTube-related policy areas and interact with executives to balance safety with product growth, while ensuring scalable policy implementation across Google products.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience drafting or enforcing policy for an online platform or engagement with public policy issues in technology, government, law or online.
• 5 years of experience in a policy, legal, trust and safety, or technology environment.
• Experience working with global teams and communicating with stakeholders cross-functionally.

Responsabilités

• Develop, maintain, and update our global policies focusing on age appropriateness and child safety.
• Evaluate risk profile of new products and features for policy impact.
• Understand and communicate risk landscape and regulatory requirements for minors as viewers and child safety.
• Influence cross-functional stakeholders and executives on proposed content policy efforts.
• Negotiate and find optimal policy solutions balancing safety, product reach, and growth.
• Propose strategies to improve Trust and Safety's product market fit and scalability.
• Work with global teams to ensure effective operationalization of global policies.

Connaissances

Policy drafting

Global collaboration

Stakeholder comms

Regulatory awareness

Formation

Bachelor's degree

Description du poste

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: San Bruno, CA, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in drafting or enforcing policy for an online platform or engagement with public policy issues in technology, government, law or online.
• 5 years of experience in a policy, legal, trust and safety, or technology environment.
• Experience working with global teams and communicating with stakeholders cross-functionally.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience on topics related to assessing the risk landscape and regulatory requirements unique to minors as viewers and child safety or youth physical or psychological safety.
• Experience in childhood development, behavior or psychology of minors ages 17 and under.
• Experience working with minors 17 and under or on topics related to child development.
• Experience engaging in and discussing sensitive or controversial areas.

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 Policy Development Lead, you will seamlessly switch between developing global policies for YouTube content and driving cross-functional projects impacting the global ecosystem. You will bring order and clarity to unstructured or ambiguous problems.

The Policy team covers a wide variety of topics, and you will contribute across multiple areas. This role will sometimes involve reviewing graphic, controversial, or offensive video content in line with YouTube’s Community Guidelines. At YouTube, we believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we listen, share, and build community through our stories. We work together to give everyone the power to share their story, explore what they love, and connect with one another in the process. Working at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and boundless creativity, we move at the speed of culture with a shared goal to show people the world. We explore new ideas, solve real problems, and have fun — and we do it all together.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $136000 - $196000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Develop, maintain, and update our global policies focused on policy requirements for age appropriateness and child safety. Evaluate the risk profile of new products and features.
• Understand and clearly communicate the risk landscape and regulatory requirements unique to minors as viewers and child safety. Influence cross-functional stakeholders and company executives regarding proposed content policy efforts.
• Negotiate and find optimal policy solutions balancing safety, product reach, and growth objectives. Understand and clearly communicate the policy challenges and needs presented by new features and emerging global online content risks.
• Propose new strategies and policies to improve Trust and Safety's product market fit to the evolving needs as well as our ability to scale our enforcement.
• Work closely with global teams to ensure effective operationalization of global policies.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .