Product Policy Lead, Platform Integrity

Pinterest • San Francisco, CA

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About The Position

Pinterest is seeking a Product Policy Lead focused on spam to help keep the platform safe and inspiring. The role develops policies defining spam on Pinterest and creates detailed enforcement guidance for Operations teams. It partners closely with Operations, Product, Engineering, and other cross-functional teams to address spam and abuse at scale, while monitoring adversarial tactics and industry developments. The work may involve reviewing graphic or disturbing content, discussing difficult subjects, and responding to escalations. The position can be based anywhere in the country and requires in-office collaboration 1–2 times per quarter.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in a relevant field such as policy or law, or equivalent experience.
• At least 7 years of experience in trust and safety or platform integrity policy work.
• Proven experience developing and enforcing spam, platform integrity, or cybersecurity policies for a global online platform.
• Deep understanding of coordinated inauthentic behavior and scaled abuse patterns, including account networks, repeat offenders, evasion tactics, compromised accounts, and content manipulation.
• Security mindset and experience in adversarial threat modeling to evaluate new products, features, APIs, and monetization surfaces for vulnerabilities and define mitigation requirements.
• Experience investigating emerging abuse campaigns under time pressure, synthesizing ambiguous signals, making sound policy decisions, and documenting lessons in durable product or policy changes.
• Hands-on knowledge of spam-fighting tools, SQL, automation, APIs, and bot ecosystems, including the ability to distinguish legitimate or user-authorized automation from deceptive and malicious bot activity.
• Ability to build and maintain threat-informed taxonomies of spam and abuse and translate them into actionable guidance for Operations, Product, Engineering, and Legal teams.
• Strong critical thinking, written communication, and verbal communication skills to weigh tradeoffs, manage ambiguity, align cross-functional partners, and navigate sensitive policy discussions.

Responsibilities

• Lead spam policy development for Pinterest.
• Partner with Operations, Product, and Engineering teams to implement spam policies and enforce them at scale.
• Advise Policy teammates and cross-functional partner teams on spam and abuse.
• Monitor industry trends and developments in detection methods and tools, and use that knowledge to help Pinterest stay ahead of bad actors.
• Develop detailed policy enforcement guidance for Operations teams.

What This Job Offers

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