Design Manager Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Working knowledge of how deceptive campaigns and covert monitoring operate, including account networks, bot operations, data aggregation pipelines, and attribution methods.
• Familiarity with surveillance technologies and their misuse, including social media monitoring tools, people-search services, location tracking, spyware, facial recognition, and open-source intelligence techniques used against individuals.
• General knowledge of global regulations concerning data protection, privacy, platform regulation, and digital services accountability.
• Strong policy writing skills and ability to translate complex threat frameworks into clear, enforceable guidelines.
• Experience designing policies and workflows that support both clear human enforcement decisions and technical implementation in ML classifiers and detection pipelines.
• Strong collaboration skills and extensive experience partnering with Engineering, Data Science, Legal, Threat Intelligence, and Policy teams on cross-functional initiatives.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain deceptive tactics, surveillance methods, and policy rationales to diverse audiences, including non-specialists and policymakers.
• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience in a relevant field, demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.

Nice To Haves

• 5 or more years of experience in policy development, trust and safety, threat intelligence, or platform integrity, with hands-on work on inauthentic behavior, surveillance-related abuse, or data misuse.
• Experience in privacy policy, privacy engineering, or data protection, including familiarity with privacy impact assessments and data minimization principles.
• Experience in intelligence roles, state-aligned monitoring operations, or covert data collection campaigns.
• Experience investigating inauthentic networks, covert monitoring, or surveillance abuses at a platform, research organization, or government body.
• Background in digital forensics, open-source intelligence, or threat attribution.
• Knowledge of persuasion theory, cognitive biases, and deceptive communication techniques, including social engineering and pretexting.
• Familiarity with human rights and privacy frameworks as they apply to surveillance, including protections for journalists, activists, and marginalized communities.
• Experience with trust and safety operations involving content moderation evasion, bot detection, or platform scraping enforcement.
• Experience working with EU institutions, regulatory bodies, or policy organizations on AI governance or digital platform regulation.
• Experience conducting adversarial testing, red teaming, or vulnerability assessments for AI systems or platforms, particularly regarding misuse involving monitoring or profiling.
• Familiarity with generative AI capabilities and understanding of how LLMs can be used for synthetic personas, social engineering, predictive profiling, or surveillance at scale.

Responsibilities

• Develop and define policy boundaries for covert monitoring, tracking, and surveillance across contexts, distinguishing malicious behavior from compliant dual-use scenarios.
• Write policy guidance on facial recognition, voice cloning, and geolocation inference, specifying which uses require consent and which are prohibited.
• Map the surveillance lifecycle—from target selection and data collection through analysis and covert deployment—and define policy boundaries at each stage to enable early intervention.
• Design and oversee evaluations measuring model capabilities related to social media monitoring, people-finding, predictive profiling, and identification or tracking of specific people.
• Work with cross-functional partners to develop and improve safeguards against malicious behavior.
• Write and refine external-facing Usage Policy language and develop training guidelines, assessment rubrics, and evaluation protocols for enforcement teams, emphasizing indicators of covert monitoring and population-level targeting.
• Validate enforcement decisions and automated assessments, provide guidance on complex edge cases, and coordinate with civil society, privacy experts, threat intelligence researchers, and academics.
• Serve as the escalation point for complex integrity and surveillance cases.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits.
• Optional equity donation matching.
• Generous vacation and parental leave.
• Flexible working hours.
• Office space for collaboration.