Operations Manager, Sensitive Verticals, Trust and Safety, Google Play
- Location
- Kirkland, WA, USA
- Salary range
- USD $141,000 – $205,000 base
- Workplace
- In office
- Level
- Manager
- Job family
- T&S Operations
- Posted
- Recently
The T&S Network estimates this role to be M3, Manager. The typical base salary for that level in Scaled Ops & Moderation is $130k to $190k at an employer this size in Seattle. Key skills at this level: forecasts volume and staffs against it with real error bars, owns service levels and can explain a miss without blaming the queue, and governs a vendor relationship on quality, not only on cost per action.
Why this level
Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: the title reads as M3 · asks for 7+ years · posts $141k to $205k base at a company over 5,000 in Seattle.
The role, in T&S terms
Written by the T&S Network from Google's posting.
Operations management for the Sensitive Verticals team within Google Play Trust and Safety, which works to make the Play and Android mobile experience safer for users and developers. The role leads enforcement operations and abuse detection work on Google Play, with the goal of reducing user harm and keeping developer trust consistent.
What you'd do
- Lead complex multi-stakeholder projects to improve abuse detection systems and reduce user harm.
- Get executives in T&S, Product, Engineering, Business Development and Legal working toward shared goals.
- Apply core process knowledge to improve enforcement workflows and operational workstreams.
- Grow policy and product knowledge to run and refine enforcement operations over time.
- Explain intricate policy ideas to executives in a way that moves their decisions.
What it asks for
- A bachelor's degree, or equivalent hands-on experience in place of one.
- Seven years in analytics, T&S, policy, cybersecurity or a closely related field.
- Master's or PhD in a relevant field (preferred).
- Education in or experience with machine learning (preferred).
- SQL, dashboard building, data collection and transformation, or scripting in a language such as Python (preferred).
- Experience building scaled operations and documenting efficient workflows in a T&S environment (preferred).
- Strong written and verbal communication and cross-functional influence (preferred).
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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
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.
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