Senior Product Manager, AI Safety

Bluesky•Fully Remote - Overlap with PST working hours ,

4h•Remote

About The Position

Bluesky’s mission is to build an open protocol for the social internet. As Bluesky continues to grow and explore new product surfaces, Trust & Safety needs to be embedded early in product strategy, design, and launch readiness. We’re looking for a Senior Product Manager, Trust & Safety and AI Safety to serve as the primary product partner between Trust & Safety, Product, Engineering and Legal. This person will own our product risk assessment process, lead operational readiness for AI-adjacent product work, and help ensure new features are built with safety considerations from the start. This is a high-context, cross-functional role for someone who can move between strategy and execution: understanding emerging product risks, translating them into clear operational requirements, driving alignment across teams, and building repeatable systems that help Bluesky ship quickly and responsibly.

Requirements

Experience in product management, Trust & Safety, integrity, platform safety, AI safety, risk, or a closely related field.
Worked on consumer products at scale, especially products with user-generated content, social interactions, recommendations, messaging, AI features, or other high-risk surfaces.
Strong at identifying product risks early and translating them into practical mitigations, operational requirements, and launch criteria.
Ability to build systems from scratch: intake processes, risk assessment frameworks, launch readiness checklists, product requirements, trackers, and cross-functional operating rhythms.
Comfortable working across Product, Engineering, Policy, Legal, Comms, and Operations, and can drive clarity when ownership is ambiguous.
Strong product judgment and can balance user experience, safety, operational feasibility, legal exposure, and company velocity.
Thoughtful about AI safety and can reason about how AI-enabled features may create new forms of user harm, abuse, manipulation, operational burden, or regulatory risk.
Clear written communication skills and can create crisp documentation that helps teams make decisions.
Experience working on small, fast-moving teams with high autonomy.
Excited to help build the safety foundations for an open social protocol.

Nice To Haves

Proximity and willingness to travel to San Francisco, Seattle, or team offsites is a plus.

Responsibilities

Own the Product Risk Assessment process end-to-end for new feature launches, including intake, scoping, risk categorization, mitigation tracking, launch readiness, and post-launch review.
Serve as the primary Trust & Safety liaison to Product and Engineering for new product development, ensuring safety considerations are included early in specs, roadmap conversations, and launch planning.
Lead Trust & Safety product thinking for AI-adjacent product work, including harm framework operationalization, launch readiness, tooling needs, queue impact, escalation paths, moderator training, and communications posture.
Build and maintain repeatable launch readiness frameworks for Trust & Safety, including checklists, templates, trackers, and feedback loops from post-launch moderation and operational observations.
Partner with Product, Engineering, Policy, Legal, Comms, and Operations to identify risks, define mitigations, and clarify ownership across complex or ambiguous product launches.
Establish a forward-looking roadmap for Trust & Safety product needs, including internal tooling, AI safety capabilities, detection systems, queue routing, escalation infrastructure, reporting, and risk dashboards.
Act as the Trust & Safety product counterpart in roadmap reviews, product planning rituals, spec reviews, and launch readiness checks.
Translate operational Trust & Safety needs into product requirements that Engineering and Product can act on.
Identify strategic opportunities where Trust & Safety systems, automation, tooling, or process improvements can compound over time.
Help move Trust & Safety from a reactive review function to a proactive product partner embedded in how Bluesky builds.