Senior Policy Specialist, Legal Content Policy and Standards

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

Legal content removal policy for Google products, handling government and third-party requests to take down potentially illegal content while weighing access to information, user expression and rights holders' intellectual property. The team sits in Trust & Safety, covering Americas legal removals, with policy work on data protection, copyright and defamation.

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What you'd do

• Track moderation trends and policy and regulatory shifts across the Americas that affect the internet.
• Run discussions with cross-functional partners on new regulations and how they change legal removal work.
• Run content operations and push sensitive government requests up the chain with Product, Policy, Communications and Legal.
• Balance competing legal considerations to resolve escalated removal requests.
• Build scalable policies and guidelines for large request volumes shaped by regional patterns and legal issues.
• Take part in an on-call rotation for high-priority escalations outside standard hours, including weekends and holidays.

What it asks for

• Hold a bachelor's degree or equivalent hands-on experience.
• Bring five years working in policy, legal, Trust & Safety, or tech.
• English proficiency.
• JD, MBA, or Master's degree (preferred).
• Experience developing, implementing and maintaining policy (preferred).
• Experience with data analysis, SQL or other data tools, operations, or trend identification (preferred).
• Knowledge of socio-political landscape, history and current events in Americas countries (preferred).

Worth knowing

• Exposure to graphic, controversial and upsetting content.
• On-call rotation outside standard work hours, including weekends and holidays.

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