Trust & Safety Analyst

Russell Tobin; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 96,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

401(k)

Life & disability insurance

Employee discounts

Job summary

Russell Tobin in Seattle is seeking a Trust & Safety Analyst for a 1-month contract (Oct 5, 2026 – Nov 16, 2026). Hybrid schedule: Tue, Wed, Thu onsite for 3 days.

You will drive strategic data analyses and actionable insights to guide abuse prevention and harm mitigation initiatives. Collaborating with global teams, you will craft metrics, identify trends, and support cross-functional decisions while balancing multiple stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Experience analyzing ethics and socio-technical impacts of AI.
• Ability to assess harms from technology for users/communities.
• Knowledge of key internet policy issues including IP, online safety, free expression.
• Ability to lead threat or rights assessments and stakeholder alignment.

Responsibilities

• Manage project planning, status reporting, timeline estimation, issue tracking, meeting facilitation, and documentation.
• Oversee execution of data-oriented analysis to architect metrics, synthesize information, solve problems, and influence decisions.
• Collaborate with global analysts to align objectives and strategies across teams.
• Drive abuse and harm-fighting projects of moderate to high complexity.
• Provide feedback analysis and process optimization to reduce latency and drive excellence.
• Conduct strategic analysis to optimize business performance with minimal guidance.

Skills

AI ethics

Impact assessment

Policy issues

Threat assessment

Cross-Functional

Job description

Location: Seattle WA (Hybrid – Tue, Wed, Thur Onsite for 3 days)

Duration: 1 month contract (10/05/2026 to 11/16/2026)

Pay Rate: $60 to $70/hr. on W2

Preferred qualifications:

• Knowledge of ethics and socio-technical considerations of technology and the future of AI.
• Proven ability or thought leadership in assessing impacts and adverse effects of technology on users or communities.
• Knowledge about the key policy issues affecting the internet (e.g., intellectual property, free expression, online safety, ethics and socio-technical considerations of technology and the future of AI).
• Ability or thought leadership in threat or human rights' assessment (i.e., verifying that technology does not produce adverse effects on users).

Description:

As a Trust & Safety Analyst, you drive impact that changes the way T&S operates. You focus on primarily strategic components of projects, delivering detailed data analyses (including insights and recommendations) that drive decisions, with limited guidance. You drive well-defined projects, with moderate levels of uncertainty, to resolve abuse - and harm-fighting and mitigation problems of medium complexity. As you partner cross-functionally with others globally, balancing your own perspectives with those of diverse stakeholders to drive impact, you act as a reliable, credible point of contact for information and subject matter knowledge, and develop expertise within a Global Affairs domain.

Responsibilities include:

• Manage project planning, status reporting, timeline estimation, issue tracking, meeting facilitation, and project documentation. Propose next steps and roadblock solutions and anticipate questions and challenges.
• Oversee execution of data-oriented analysis to architect metrics, synthesize information, solve problems, and influence business decision-making by presenting insights and market trends, with minimal guidance to the project team.
• Work with a team of business analysts responsible for implementing various internal and external integrations between business objectives, as well as designing and building strategies that support these business systems.
• drive well-defined abuse
• and harm-fighting and mitigation projects of moderate to high complexity.
• Provide employee feedback analysis, operational monitoring, and error resolution to prevent inaccuracies, reduce process latency, and drive process excellence for standard processes.
• Conduct strategic analysis, identifying, evaluating, and recommending ways to optimize business performance and deliver best-in‑class execution within relevant PA, function, or sub‑function with minimal guidance.
• Help stakeholders to improve business processes by performing effective escalation management, providing "quick fix" solutions, and pushing projects forward, and driving recommendations through to implementation.
• Data analytics & modeling
• Operations improvement
• Machine learning
• Project management
• Statistical analysis
• Thought leadership (Trust & Safety Analyst)
• Technical Fluency (Trust & Safety)
• Problem-solving

Russell Tobin offers eligible employee’s comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans), supplemental coverage (accident insurance, critical illness insurance and hospital indemnity), 401(k)-retirement savings, life & disability insurance, an employee assistance program, legal support, auto, home insurance, pet insurance and employee discounts with preferred vendors.

Russell Tobin is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of the race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, reproductive health decision making, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

Russell Tobin is a Fair Chance employer. We consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable state and local Fair Chance laws and ordinances, including, the California Fair Chance Act and all applicable local Fair Chance ordinances.

Accommodations

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or interview process, or to perform the essential functions of this role, please contact us.

Only applicable for San Francisco Candidates: Under the San Francisco Lactation in the Workplace Ordinance, we will provide written notice of lactation accommodation rights, and this notice will automatically be given upon hiring, any inquiry of parental leave or lactation accommodation.