Trust and Safety Analyst, YouTube

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 2 years of experience working in communications, political campaigns, or within government.
  
• 2 years of experience working within think tanks, public interest groups, technology industry groups, or corporate public policy organizations.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience working with Trust and Safety, GAPP, and Legal colleagues in a cross-functional environment.
• Understanding of Indian legislative/regulatory frameworks and global tech policy trends.
• Ability to build relationships with government stakeholders, civil society, and industry networks.
• Excellent organizational skills, including tracking and managing milestones, stakeholder feedback and reviews, and action items.
• Excellent track record managing multiple short- and long-term projects and consistently driving them to completion.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

About the job

As a member of Google’s Government Affairs and Public Policy team, you'll be part of a global government affairs team, working across regions, product areas, and functions. You’ll combine creativity and intellectual excellence with the organizational skills to manage various campaigns, projects and initiatives. In this role, you’ll advocate for Google to bring external perspectives back into the company to inform our perception and direction. You're passionate about the opportunity to shape the future of how we use and build technology for everyone.

In this role, you will research and stay up-to-date on key trends and suspicious patterns across policy areas. Develop resources to support our global public policy team’s work with regulators, trade associations, industry partners, nonprofits, and other partners. Support the team with research, analysis, and execution of policy initiatives, leveraging an understanding of external environments (e.g., the overall industry, policy, and political environment), policy infrastructure, and the governing ecosystem, and how they relate to YouTube’s policy initiatives and stakeholders. You will identify policy issues that may affect YouTube, monitor and analyze current and proposed policies, participate in policy campaigns, and solve policy and government affairs problems. Work non-standard, on-call rotation weekend and holiday hours as needed. Manage high-priority, time-sensitive escalations in partnership with cross-functional teams while providing executive updates.

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.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a support regarding political and government escalations that touch on content moderation issues on YouTube.
• Review content in-line with YouTube’s Community Guidelines.
• Be an in-country YouTube Government Affairs and Public Policy representative in India that is to address market issues and concerns.
• Provide counsel internally regarding the situation on the ground as needed.
• Be available to play a utility role for the small in-market Government Affairs and Public Policy team, e.g., support the team in managing programs, projects, outreach, and initiatives.

Experience Level

Mid Level