Regulatory Operations Specialist, YouTube Trust and Safety

Google•Mountain View, CA

2d•$95,000 - $135,000

About The Position

Fast-paced, dynamic, and proactive, YouTube’s Trust & Safety team is dedicated to making YouTube a safe place for users, viewers, and content creators around the world to create, and express themselves. Whether understanding and solving their online content concerns, navigating within global legal frameworks, or writing and enforcing worldwide policy, the Trust & Safety team is on the frontlines of enhancing the YouTube experience, building internet safety, and protecting free speech in our ever-evolving digital world. As a part of the team, you will be responsible for handling legal and regulatory escalations and for ensuring the implementation of compliance processes for emerging content regulations. In this role, you will be on the front line of compliance capability development and implementation as this is a rapidly evolving space: new and emerging regulations in the online content space are increasingly common. You will be responsible for ensuring that our policies are enforced effectively end-to-end, including from the point of identification of possible violation, to removal and appeals. You will work with cross-functional teams to provide YouTube’s response to emerging escalations. You will review graphic, controversial, and sometimes offensive video content in line with YouTube’s Community Guidelines. Your role may require on-call work at weekends and holidays on a rotational basis.At YouTube, we believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we 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: $95000 - $135000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits Learn more about benefits at Google [https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/].

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
2 years of experience in data analytics, trust and safety, policy, cybersecurity, or related fields.

Nice To Haves

Experience in building dashboards, data collection/transformation, data visualization or experience in a scripting/programming language (e.g. Python).

Responsibilities

Own, manage, and resolve policy escalations from legal and regulatory teams, driving alignment with Trust and Safety and Legal leads.
Enforce YouTube's Community Guidelines, including coordinating timing, internal alignment, and internal and external communications.
Work closely with Legal to address sensitive/challenging policy escalations, including investigations related to trends.
Operationalize new regulations for YouTube Trust and Safety, and manage, maintain, and improve those compliance operations.
Drive operational improvements, including working with Product, Operations, and Engineering on technical solutions and demonstrate excellence in operations management, ensuring all escalations are triaged, tracked, investigated, resolved, and communicated accurately using internal tools and systems.