Overview
Position Title: Policy Specialist
Company: Google
Location: Enfield, UK
Job Description
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.
Responsibilities:
- Analyze policy and legal challenges facing technology platforms and make recommendations on how Google should address them.
- Engage and communicate with users, governments, and other internal and external stakeholders on policy issues, resolve high-profile policy escalations to ensure legal policy analysis and recommendations consider all teams’ perspectives.
- Serve as a strategic advisor and liaison to cross-functional stakeholders, including Legal,
- Public Policy, Trust and Safety, and Engineering. Partner with technical teams to drive and coordinate the development and maintenance of Legal Removals tools and processes.
- Review or be exposed to sensitive content (e.g., hate speech, violent extremism, nudity, etc.) and work occasional off-hours coverage rotations.
- Develop, launch, and enforce scalable policies and processes for handling legal content removal requests. Drive innovation regarding best practices for implementing such policies.
Requirements:
- Experience with policy and regulation affecting the Internet.
- Ability to communicate and work with cross-functional stakeholders.
- Experience within areas such as free expression, human rights, online safety, and content moderation.
- Good understanding of socio-political environment, current events, and cultural nuances.
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