Senior Search Quality Analyst, YouTube Trust and Safety
About The Position
The Senior Search Quality Analyst will work on YouTube’s Trust & Safety team, which focuses on making YouTube a safe place for users, viewers, and creators worldwide. The team addresses online content concerns, works within global legal frameworks, and develops and enforces policies to improve user safety while protecting free speech. In this role, the analyst will apply advanced statistical methods to understand the impact of abuse on the YouTube ecosystem, contribute to strategies and workflows addressing abuse vectors, and communicate technical findings clearly. The position also supports quality assurance, scalable training, fraud and spam investigations, vulnerability identification, and anti-abuse experiments. The analyst will work with engineers and cross-functional stakeholders to improve workflows through process improvements, automation, and anti-abuse systems. Individual pay is determined by job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US salary range: $159,000–$230,000 USD, plus a 15% bonus target, equity, and benefits.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience in data analysis, including identifying trends, generating summary statistics, and drawing insights from quantitative and qualitative data.
- 5 years of experience managing projects and defining project scope, goals, and deliverables.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree in a quantitative discipline.
- 5 years of experience or familiarity with machine learning systems.
- 5 years of experience or familiarity with one or more of the following languages: SQL, R, Python, or C++.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Responsibilities
- Apply advanced statistical methods to complex data sets to understand the impact of abuse on the YouTube ecosystem.
- Contribute to the strategy and development of new workflows addressing additional known vectors of abuse.
- Learn complex technical concepts and systems, deliver meaningful results using them, and communicate technical results and methods clearly.
- Maintain, foster, and promote quality by providing regular feedback metrics to the Global team.
- Manage technological solutions to streamline quality assurance and produce scalable training solutions for emergent workflows.
- Conduct fraud and spam investigations using various data sources, identify product vulnerabilities, and drive anti-abuse experiments to prevent abuse.
- Work with engineers and cross-functional stakeholders to improve workflows through process improvements, automation, and anti-abuse system creation.
- Develop high-quality training materials, build consensus, and maintain communication with business stakeholders for YouTube Scaled Abuse.
Benefits
- 15% bonus target
- Equity
- Benefits; details are available through Google’s benefits information.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
