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Senior Search Quality Analyst, YouTube Trust and Safety

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Compensation
$159–230K/yr
Location
Mountain View, CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Senior Search Quality Analyst will support YouTube Trust & Safety by analyzing abuse across the YouTube ecosystem, investigating fraud and spam, and identifying product vulnerabilities. The role contributes to anti-abuse strategies and experiments, improves quality assurance workflows, and develops training solutions and materials. It also requires communicating technical findings and collaborating with engineers and business stakeholders to improve processes and protect users and creators.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Data AnalysisProject ManagementProject ScopingMachine LearningSQLRPythonC++Written CommunicationVerbal Communication

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Practical Experience5 Years Data Analysis Experience5 Years Project Management ExperienceMaster's in Quantitative DisciplineEnglish Proficiency

Full job description

Senior Search Quality Analyst, YouTube Trust and Safety

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Minimum qualifications:

  • 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.

Preferred qualifications:

  • 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.

About the job

Fast-paced, dynamic, and proactive, YouTube’s Trust & Safety team is dedicated to making YouTube a safe place for users, viewers, and content creators around the world to create, and express themselves. Whether understanding and solving their online content concerns, navigating within global legal frameworks, or writing and enforcing worldwide policy, the Trust & Safety team is on the frontlines of enhancing the YouTube experience, building internet safety, and protecting free speech in our ever-evolving digital world.

At YouTube, we believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we listen, share, and build community through our stories. We work together to give everyone the power to share their story, explore what they love, and connect with one another in the process. Working at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and boundless creativity, we move at the speed of culture with a shared goal to show people the world. We explore new ideas, solve real problems, and have fun — and we do it all together.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $159000 - $230000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .

Responsibilities

  • Apply advanced statistical methods to complex data sets to understand the impact of abuse to the YouTube ecosystem. Contribute strategy and development of new workflows against additional known vectors of abuse.

  • Learn complex and technical concepts and systems and deliver meaningful results using them. Communicate highly technical results and methods clearly.

  • Maintain, foster and promote quality by providing regular feedback metrics to the Global team. Manage technological solutions for streamlining quality assurance and produce scalable training solutions to emergent workflows.

  • Perform fraud and spam investigations using various data sources, identify product vulnerabilities and drive anti-abuse experiments to prevent abuse. Work with engineers and interact cross-functionally with stakeholders to improve workflows via process improvements, automation and anti-abuse system creation.

  • Develop high quality training materials, create consensus and maintain communication for YouTube Scaled Abuse with business stakeholders.

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Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See alsoGoogle's EEO Policy (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/eeo/) ,Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal (https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/EEOC\_KnowYourRights\_10\_20.pdf) ,Belonging at Google (https://about.google/belonging/) , andHow we hire (https://careers.google.com/how-we-hire/) .

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Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

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How this job compares

Set against the 5,540 open Data Analyst jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$159–230K/yr
  • California median$107–171K/yr295 salary ranges
  • US median$88–133K/yr3,404 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $195K, is 41% above the California median midpoint ($138K) — in the top quarter of Data Analyst salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 414 open Data Analyst jobs in California and 5,540 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Data Analyst postings that state a minimum ask for 4 years at the median (4,180 postings).
Education
2,322 of the 5,540 open Data Analyst jobs (42%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 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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