
Program Manager, Societal Risk
Washington D.C., DCJob$136–196K/yrSeen 5 days agoSeen in employer's feed 5 days ago
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Job overview
The Program Manager, Societal Risk will help develop and mature Google’s risk and compliance capabilities, supporting risk assessments for content regulations across products and functions. The role focuses on designing and scaling a societal risk program, coordinating work across partner teams, and building processes and communications for stakeholders. The team collaborates across Google to conduct consistent, defensible, and auditable risk assessments.
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Program Manager, Societal Risk
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XIn accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:
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Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
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Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
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Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
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Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
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Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
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Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
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Holidays: 13 paid days per year
Minimum qualifications:
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Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
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5 years of experience in program or project management.
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5 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
Preferred qualifications:
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Familiarity with tech/platform policy, regulatory environment or compliance environment.
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Ability to manage and coordinate multiple projects simultaneously, particularly when dealing with changing requirements, competing demands, inputs from multiple stakeholders and external deadlines.
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Ability to work independently and proactively identify strategic opportunities that address the goals of the team.
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Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to craft clear and concise narratives and tailor communications to inform and influence different stakeholders.
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Excellent problem-solving and critical thinking skills with attention to detail in an ever-changing environment.
About the job
Our team drives collaboration with key partners across Google and conducts consistent, defensible and auditable risk assessments for content regulations.
In this role, you will be on the front line of our risk and compliance capability development and maturation, driving the risk by design culture. To be effective in this role, you must be adept at creative thinking, solving new problems and agile execution.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $136000 - $196000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .
Responsibilities
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Design and implement a societal risk program; support execution and scaling of risk assessments across products and horizontal functions.
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Lead program management support across multiple regulations and product areas, developing clear tracking processes and communications materials for stakeholders.
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Operationalize risk processes by driving collaboration and alignment with a broad range of Google-wide partner teams.
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Contribute to risk assessment execution via team tracking and program management processes.
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Establish a leadership presence with a global mindset and a proven ability to influence and inspire across all levels of the organization; ability to think holistically, with a bias to action, exemplary problem solving skills and attention to detail.
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How this job compares
Set against the 11,062 open Program Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$136–196K/yr
- Washington, D.C. median$134–196K/yr173 salary ranges
- US median$120–202K/yr8,697 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $166K, is close to the Washington, D.C. median midpoint ($166K) — in the middle half of Program Manager salary ranges in Washington, D.C..
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 206 open Program Manager jobs in Washington, D.C. and 11,062 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Program Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 6 years at the median (9,391 postings).
- Education
- 5,034 of the 11,062 open Program Manager jobs (46%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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