Associate Principal Analyst, Trust and Safety, Shopping

Google

Location
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Salary range
USD $141,000 – $205,000 base
Workplace
In office
Level
Senior / Staff IC
Job family
T&S Operations
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The T&S Network estimates this role to be P4, Staff. Key skills at this level: authors a framework, architecture or strategy that teams outside their own adopt, influences teams they hold no authority over, by argument and evidence, and designs for the failure mode, not only the happy path.

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Why this level

Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: the posting states the level in its title · the title reads as P4 · asks for 7+ years · posts $141k to $205k base at a company over 5,000 in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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The role, in T&S terms

Written by the T&S Network from Google's posting.

Trust and Safety work on Google's shopping products, setting policies and fighting fraud and abuse at scale across Google surfaces, with the team working alongside engineering, legal, public policy and sales engineering. The team's stated mission is safe and trustworthy shopping experiences for all users.

What you'd do

  • Ideate and manage high-impact projects that raise user safety or improve user experience with cross-functional partners.
  • Perform investigative fraud and abuse analysis and produce actionable insights and recommendations.
  • Spot new signals and automation options, plus workflow fixes that make operations more efficient.
  • Drive solutions and projects through to completion.
  • Mentor and guide other team members.
  • Carry out on-call duties on a rotating basis, including weekend and holiday coverage.

What it asks for

  • A bachelor's degree, or equivalent hands-on experience in place of one.
  • Master's or PhD in a relevant field (preferred).
  • Experience with machine learning (preferred).
  • Experience with SQL, dashboards, data collection and transformation, or a scripting language such as Python (preferred).
  • Excellent communication, presentation and cross-functional influence skills (preferred).

Worth knowing

  • Exposure to graphic, controversial and upsetting content or situations.
  • On-call rotation including weekends and holidays.

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About Google

AI and model safety · Media and streaming · Infrastructure and developer tools · Mountain View, CA · More than 100,000 people · Founded 1998

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Search, advertising, Android, YouTube and Cloud, and the source of Perspective API and Jigsaw.

Moderation, reported

Google files its moderation decisions with the European Commission, separately for each service below. The newest we hold cover May 2026.

  • Google Shopping
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