Policy Lead, Search and Commerce - Google
Washington D.C., DC
About the Job
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience in a policy, legal, Trust and Safety, or technology environment.
Preferred qualifications:
- JD, MBA, or Master’s degree.
- Experience with policy (e.g., harmful content, privacy, AI)
- Experience with strategy and stakeholder engagement.
- Familiarity with Google products, especially Search.
- Excellent problem-solving and critical thinking skills with attention to detail in an ever-changing environment.
About the job
Trust & Safety team members are tasked with identifying and taking on the biggest problems that challenge the safety and integrity of our products. They use technical know-how, excellent problem-solving skills, user insights, and proactive communication to protect users and our partners from abuse across Google products like Search, Maps, Gmail, and Google Ads. On this team, you're a big-picture thinker and strategic team-player with a passion for doing what’s right. You work globally and cross-functionally with Google engineers and product managers to identify and fight abuse and fraud cases at Google speed - with urgency. And you take pride in knowing that every day you are working hard to promote trust in Google and ensuring the highest levels of user safety.
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.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $125,000-$185,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Responsibilities
- Anticipate policy issues across emerging Generative AI risks, commerce and shopping journeys, and content moderation policies as it relates to our product and technology platforms, develop policies and enforcement recommendations on how to address them.
- Lead, develop, and implement content policies for Google products with a view towards user safety, product quality, and privacy.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams globally to ensure policy analysis, recommendations and consider all teams perspectives. Resolve high-profile policy issues, coming from the public, users, and internal stakeholders.
- Review or be exposed to sensitive or graphic content as part of the core role.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance user experience for policy-related issues, influencing product decisions. Conduct research to set industry standards and promote awareness of our policies.