Product Policy Lead

Google • Washington D.C., DC

8h

About The Position

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. In this role, you will support various research and labs product areas and the platforms and devices product areas. You will require close collaboration with stakeholders across product, engineering, responsible AI, legal, regulatory, Public Relations (PR), and government affairs to enable the growth of the platforms and devices business and product innovation by promoting trust as well as mitigating safety, regulatory and reputational risks. You will include work on external policies (e.g., content and abuse policy, acceptable use policy, and terms of service) and their implementation, internal policies (e.g., frameworks, guidelines, and taxonomies) as well as advising product on responsible development, launch, product feature, and strategy, including on Responsible AI. 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 7 years of experience in a policy, legal, Trust and Safety, or technology environment.

Nice To Haves

• JD, MBA, or Master’s degree.
• Experience with the development, implementation, and maintenance of policy.
• Excellent problem-solving and critical thinking skills with attention to detail in an ever-changing environment.

Responsibilities

• Identify and analyze novel policy issues facing technology platforms, make recommendations on how to address them, and manage high-impact policy escalations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure policy analysis and policy recommendations consider all teams perspectives, while also driving awareness and understanding of our product policies, and resolving high-profile policy issues coming from the public, regulators, users, customers and internal stakeholders.
• Develop and advance first principles that define our approach to trust risk areas, while also researching and collaborating to set industry standards.
• Develop in ambiguity and in dynamic environments performing at your best when new information, projects, and decisions.
• Work with sensitive content or situations and may be exposed to graphic, controversial, or upsetting topics or content.

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (statutory, where applicable); 5 days/event (discretionary)
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

What This Job Offers

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