Google Looking For Policy Lead, Legal Removals, Trust and Safety at New York, NY Full Time

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Mountain View, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA.

Minimum qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

2 years of experience in risk management in an academic setting, public policy, or a technology related environment

Preferred qualifications:
Experience in technology companies, public policy, or other relevant fields

Experience in project management

Ability to translate complex issues into simple, clear language

Ability to manage projects, collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, and navigate organizational boundaries

About the job

As a member of Google’s Government Affairs and Public Policy team, you’ll be part of a diverse global government affairs team, working across regions, product areas, and functions. You’ll combine creativity and intellectual excellence with the organizational skills to manage various campaigns, projects and initiatives. In this role, you’ll advocate for Google to bring external perspectives back into the company to inform our perception and direction. You’re passionate about the opportunity to shape the future of how we use and build technology for everyone.

As a Policy Lead, you will ensure the success of the team by proactively identifying problems, analyzing issues, and developing recommendations to drive change as a legal policy and product expert.

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 diverse 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.

Responsibilities

Develop, launch, and enforce scalable policies and processes to scale requirements from upcoming legislation regarding content moderation issues. Drive innovation regarding best practices for implementing such policies.

Serve as a strategic advisor and liaison to cross-functional stakeholders, including Legal, Public Policy, Product Policy, and Engineering.

Partner with technical teams to drive and coordinate the development and maintenance of Legal Removals tools and processes.

Engage and communicate with users, governments, and other internal and external stakeholders on removals requests, policy issues, and high-profile escalations from receipt to resolution.

Review or be exposed to sensitive content (e.g., hate speech, violent extremism, nudity, etc.) and may involve occasional off-hours coverage rotations.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.