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Rapid Response Manager, Trust and Safety

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Compensation
$141–205K/yr
Location
San Bruno, CA
Work Authorization
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Job overview

As a Rapid Response Manager on YouTube’s Trust and Safety team, the hire will ensure policies are enforced end-to-end and coordinate responses to emerging escalations with cross-functional teams. The role includes reviewing graphic or controversial video content, leading operational readiness for major events and crises, and managing complex policy escalations. Weekend and holiday on-call work is required on a rotational basis.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

International IssuesChild SafetyOnline Controversial ContentOperational EfficiencyProcess ManagementCross-Functional CollaborationCommunicationAmbiguity ToleranceQuantitative InsightsStrategic AnalysisTeam Leadership

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Practical Experience7 Years Relevant ExperienceEnglish Proficiency

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Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

  • 7 years of experience in data analytics, Trust & Safety, policy, cybersecurity, business strategy, or related fields.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience working with international issues across multiple geographies, including child safety or online controversial content.

  • Experience in driving operational efficiency and process management.

  • Experience working with cross-functional partners (e.g., Engineering, Legal, Product) to drive execution or resolve crises.

  • Strong communication skills to drive consensus across stakeholders.

  • Able to work in a fast-paced, rapidly-changing industry and tolerate ambiguity while seeking to minimize uncertainty through quantitative insights.

  • Strategic and analysis skills, including the ability to lead a team to frame problems, structure analyses, and drive to impact.

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.

As a Rapid Response Manager on the YouTube Trust and Safety team, you will be responsible for ensuring that our policies are enforced effectively end-to-end, including from the point of identification of possible violation, to removal and appeals. You will work with cross-functional teams to provide YouTube’s response to emerging escalations. You will review graphic, controversial, and sometimes offensive video content in line with YouTube’s Community Guidelines.

This role will require on-call work on weekends and holidays on a rotational basis.

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

US: $141000 - $205000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

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

Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop a high-performing team, ensuring global operational readiness for major events, emerging crises, and high-impact incidents.

  • Manage end-to-end policy escalations by actively triaging, investigating, resolving, and tracking complex cases through specialized internal tools and tracking systems and evaluate cross-product, high-severity escalations to assess regulatory risk, operational impact, and required enforcement actions.

  • Serve as a subject matter expert on YouTube’s Community Guidelines, manage related escalations, and drive policy and process improvements across multiple policy areas.

  • Build cross-functional product expertise to accelerate resolution times, collaborating with Engineering partners to build preventative tooling and conducting rigorous postmortems to stop future systemic failures.

  • Review graphic, controversial, and sometimes offensive video content in line with YouTube’s Community Guidelines and YouTube Partner Program policies and draft and review executive communications, partnering cross-functionally to land sensitive policy decisions regionally.

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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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