Google

Google Messages Lead, Ecosystem Trust and Safety

Google$171K — $248K *
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 10 years in data analytics, trust and safety, anti-abuse messaging solutions, or similar fields.
  • 3 years of experience leading and developing teams.
  • 3 years of experience with product launch or program management.

Responsibilities

  • Identify Business-to-Users and Users-to-Business threats while designing anti-abuse protections.
  • Analyze complex data to identify new signals for AI/ML use in operational improvements.
  • Design and manage workflows for Trust and Safety review, enforcement, and appeals.
  • Provide abuse and policy expertise to support automated enforcement development.
  • Monitor ecosystem performance metrics and investigate anomalies in spam trends.

Benefits

  • Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance.
  • Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match.
  • 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years.
  • 40 hours of sick time/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle).
  • Maternity Leave of 28-30 weeks and Baby Bonding Leave of 18 weeks.
  • 13 paid holidays per year.
Full Job Description
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X In 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:
  • Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
  • Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
  • 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
  • Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
  • Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
  • Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
  • Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Kirkland, WA, USA; Austin, TX, USA.

Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 10 years of experience in data analytics, trust and safety, policy, anti-abuse messaging solutions, fraud/abuse investigations, risk management, or a related field.
  • 3 years of experience leading and developing teams.
  • 3 years of experience with product launch or program management.

Preferred qualifications:
  • Experience in fraud investigations, risk management, and threat analysis for communication products.
  • Experience building technical or product-based anti-abuse messaging solutions.
  • Experience in operations and trust and safety, including leading fast-moving teams.
  • Proficiency in large-scale data analysis and processes for developing ML reputation models.
  • Excellent problem-solving and critical thinking skills with attention to the evolving abuse landscape.
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and leadership.


About the job

The RCS for Business (RBM) Messaging Spam and Abuse team works on preventing abuse within the RBM ecosystem (Business to user, and User to business).

We are responsible for keeping our partners safe from malicious content (phishing, malware, scams) and unwanted interactions (spam). Over the next few years, we intend to scale up the protections across the ecosystem, in partnership with product and engineering teams, with a focused goal of de-risking RCS value to the business ecosystem overall.
In this role, you will understand the user's point of view and be passionate about using your technical, investigative, and strategic acumen to protect our users. You will work globally and cross-functionally with Google Engineers and Product Managers to navigate challenging online safety situations and manage abuse and fraud at Google scale.
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 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.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $171000 - $248000 (USD) 20% bonus target equity benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google .

Responsibilities
  • Identify Business-to-Users and Users-to-Business threats, working cross-functionally to design and build anti-abuse protections, influence safer-by-design product features, and advise on counter-abuse strategies and emerging trends.
  • Analyze complex data and emerging trends to identify new signals for scaled enforcement, leading projects to increase the adoption of AI/ML to improve operational efficiency and effectiveness.
  • Design and operate the full Trust and Safety funnel of review, enforcement, and appeals workflows, this includes ensuring effective policy implementation by drafting guidelines for reviewers and overseeing review and enforcement quality.
  • Provide abuse and policy expertise to Product, Engineering, and other cross-functional teams to support the development of automated enforcement solutions.
  • Monitor ecosystem performance against key metrics, investigate anomalies in spam trends to identify root causes, manage industry partner-experience trends, and manage executive escalations by providing timely, data- and content-driven insights.


About Google

Google is a multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. The company has grown tremendously since then and has become one of the most valuable companies in the world. Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
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Industry
Net Income
$40.2 billion
Founded
1998
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Revenue
$182.5 billion
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