Senior Analyst, Trust and Safety, Ads Content Safety

Google

Location
Kirkland, WA, USA
Salary range
USD $116,000 – $166,000 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 P3, Senior. The typical base salary for that level in Scaled Ops & Moderation is $140k to $200k 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.

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Why this level

Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: the title reads as P3 · asks for 4+ years · posts $116k to $166k base at a company over 5,000 in Seattle · sets strategy beyond one team.

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The role, in T&S terms

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

Works on abuse and fraud across Google Ads, the ads ecosystem covering core and emerging ad products, including brand safety and controversial content. Sits in Google's Trust & Safety team, which fights abuse across products in over 40 languages while keeping safety measures from disrupting legitimate advertisers.

What you'd do

  • Run complex queries and analyses and build visual models on abuse trends for fraud prevention.
  • Build presentations on abuse trends for cross-functional partners.
  • Investigate fraudsters, enforce product policies, and track scam patterns and trends.
  • Find product vulnerabilities that scammers could exploit.
  • Influence engineering on abuse detection systems without hurting the advertiser experience.
  • Find automation and efficiency opportunities and drive them through analysis or partnerships.
  • Work with PMs, engineering, sales, and legal on projects that improve safety in Google Ads.

What it asks for

  • A four-year-year degree or hands-on work in place of one.
  • Four years working in data analytics, T&S, policy, security, or nearby fields.
  • Master's degree in a relevant field (preferred).
  • Experience with machine learning (preferred).
  • SQL, dashboard building, data transformation, or visualization skills (preferred).
  • Scripting or programming experience, such as Python (preferred).
  • Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills for influencing across functions (preferred).

Worth knowing

  • Exposure to graphic, controversial, or upsetting content.
  • Rotating on-call responsibilities including weekends and holidays.

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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.

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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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