Content Policy Associate Manager, Actor & Behavioral Policy

Meta • New York, NY

2d • $94,000 - $143,000

About The Position

Meta is seeking a Content Policy Associate Manager to shape policies, frameworks, and guardrails governing how accounts, pages, groups, and new products operate across its platforms. The role works closely with Product, Global Operations, Legal, Communications, and Public Policy teams. Its scope includes policy counseling for new product launches, guidance on integrity safeguards, governance frameworks for AI-driven content moderation, and clear decision-making across leadership and cross-functional partners. The associate manager also supports escalation coverage, election readiness, and crisis response when needed, making difficult decisions under tight timelines and evolving circumstances. The ideal candidate communicates precisely, turns complex tradeoffs into actionable recommendations, builds alignment among partners with competing priorities, and works autonomously on sensitive, fast-moving issues. The role requires explicitly identifying risks, assessing effects on free expression and safety, and driving cross-functional alignment.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, such as public policy, law, political science, communications, or a related discipline.
• At least 4 years of experience in content policy, trust and safety, platform integrity, operations, legal, government, nonprofit, or a related field.
• Experience working autonomously and cross-functionally to develop policies and apply analytical thinking to ambiguous, complex problems.
• Judgment to operate independently on sensitive topics and escalate when appropriate, including across time zones.
• Experience communicating complex policy positions clearly and succinctly in writing to executive audiences.
• Ability to work with potentially sensitive or objectionable topics.
• Experience presenting policy positions verbally to cross-functional stakeholders and leadership.

Nice To Haves

• Experience partnering with Product and Engineering teams to define policy requirements for new product launches or feature tests.
• Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices, such as risk assessment, bias mitigation, and quality and accuracy reviews.
• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize or redesign workflows and drive measurable impact, such as efficiency gains or quality improvements.
• Experience assessing policy tradeoffs across free expression, safety, and product goals and translating assessments into clear recommendations.
• Experience developing governance frameworks for AI-driven or automated decision-making systems.
• Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development, such as prompt/context engineering or agent orchestration, and staying current with emerging AI technologies.
• Experience with enforcement architecture such as strikes and penalties design, or entity-level enforcement frameworks.
• Experience supporting elections integrity or crisis response operations at a technology platform.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Product and Engineering teams to assess policy risks in new launches, tests, and product changes; define safeguards, flag tradeoffs, and clarify escalation paths before features reach users.
• Own policy counseling for actor-level enforcement, assess proposals for impacts on free expression, safety, and enforcement precision, and provide clear guidance to operations and integrity teams.
• Shape governance and policy frameworks for AI-driven content moderation, including automated enforcement decisions and post-deployment monitoring for defensibility and accuracy at scale.
• Build consensus with cross-functional partners, including Product Policy, Public Policy, Central Product, Operations, and Legal, translating product developments into concrete policy risk analysis.
• Support regulatory and communications inquiries and represent Policy in cross-functional meetings.
• Contribute to election readiness and crisis response efforts, coordinating with integrity and legal teams as needed.

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager