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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 7 years of experience in a policy, legal, trust and safety, or technology environment.
- Experience working with AI-related policy issues in child safety, online harms, or age-appropriate product design.
Preferred qualifications:
- Advanced degree in an academic field focused on pediatric or adolescent development, child protection policy, or the psychological impact of digital products on children and youth.
- 8 years of experience in child or adolescent development, such as through working directly with people, advocating for children's rights, or advanced degrees in developmental psychology.
- Ability to translate complex issues into simple and clear language, collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, and navigate organizational boundaries.
- Ability to influence director-level product and engineering stakeholders without formal authority.
- 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.
As a Policy Strategist, you will serve as a primary domain authority and strategic lead for kids and teens content safety. You will handle novel, highly ambiguous policy challenges spanning generative AI, emerging product capabilities and interactions, and age-appropriate content ecosystem risks.
In this role, you will lead proactive policy formulation, partner with Engineering and Product Management to embed safety-by-design into product roadmaps, and serve as a senior escalation lead on critical issues. Your work will be grounded in research-based age-appropriate developmental needs of kids and teens. This role requires exceptional judgment, strong cross-functional influence, and the ability to turn complex academic research and global safety regulations into scalable policy frameworks.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $164000 - $239000 (USD) 20% bonus target equity benefits
Learn more about benefits at Google .
Responsibilities
- Drive the development and iteration of comprehensive, research-grounded policies and strategies that ensure Google's products offer age-appropriate experiences to protect people from harmful content.
- Serve as a senior escalation authority for critical, high-visibility policy issues, translating acute incidents into long-term systemic fixes.
- Partner as the primary safety advisor to Product Managers, UX Designers, and SWE leads to embed safety-by-design principles into product roadmaps and ensure safety before launch.
- Track industry and social trends, analyze policy issues facing technology platforms, make recommendations on how to address these challenges across multiple Google products.
- Work with sensitive content or situations and may be exposed to graphic, controversial, or upsetting topics or content.
