Policy Manager, YouTube Trust and Safety
San Bruno, CA, USA +1 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Location
- San Bruno, CA, USA
Mountain View, CA, USA - Experience
- 7 years in specified or related fields; 1 year in people management.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Manages YouTube Policy Leads and develops global policies to counter adversarial abuse, including coordinated spam, generative AI exploitation, and platform manipulation.
What you'll do
- Manage and guide a team of Policy Leads, setting priorities and developing policy proposals for executive audiences.
- Lead global policy development, implementation, and lifecycle governance for scaled adversarial abuse.
- Partner with engineering, data science, public policy, PR, legal, and product teams; brief executives on investigations and proposals.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 7 years of experience in data analytics, trust and safety, policy, cybersecurity, business strategy, or related fields.
- 1 year of experience in people management, leading a team.
Nice to have
- Experience as a thought leader and team lead or people manager in an investigative, anti-abuse environment.
- Ability to manage ambiguity in a rapidly changing industry and use quantitative insights.
Pay
USD 164000 - 239000 base salary
AI focus
Develops policies addressing generative AI exploitation and works across machine learning and generative AI teams.
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