Policy Analyst, YouTube Monetization, Trust and Safety

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 4 years of experience in data analytics, Trust and Safety, policy, cybersecurity, or related fields.
• 4 years of experience in content moderation, policy, operations, government, journalism, or management consulting.

Preferred qualifications:

• Knowledge on how brand safety works for advertisers on internet platforms.
• Ability to work separately and collaboratively to complete projects from beginning to end and in a timely manner.
• Ability to solve unstructured business problems.
• Ability to clearly communicate with multiple cross-regional and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.

About the job:

The YouTube’s Trust and Safety team is dedicated to making YouTube a safe place for users, viewers, and content creators around the world to create, and express themselves. Whether understanding and solving their online content concerns, navigating within global legal frameworks, or writing and enforcing worldwide policy, the Trust and Safety team is on the frontlines of enhancing the YouTube experience, building internet safety, and protecting free speech in our ever-evolving digital world.

YouTube Monetization Trust and Safety team members are tasked with identifying and taking on the problems that test the safety and integrity of our products.

In this role, you will use technical know-how, excellent problem-solving skills, user insights, and proactive communication to protect users and our partners from abuse across Google products like Search, Maps, Gmail, and Google Ads. You will be a big-picture thinker and team-player with a passion for doing what’s right. You work globally and cross-functionally with Google engineers and product managers to identify and fight abuse and fraud cases at Google speed with urgency and you take pride in knowing that every day you are working hard to promote trust in Google and ensuring all the levels of user safety.

At Google we work hard to earn our users’ trust every day. Trust and 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:

• Enforce policy decisions for YouTube’s Advertiser Friendly Guidelines.
• Review controversial and sometimes offensive video content to determine whether or not they’re brand safe. Manage incoming urgent escalations from advertisers, creators, and press.
• Work closely with our policy development team to rollout policy updates and improvements to our global team.
• Represent a well-researched, data-driven, user-focused stance for YouTube that balances users, advertisers, product, and brand considerations across a variety of policy issues and platforms
• Perform occasional on-call work on weekends and holidays on a rotational basis and evaluate graphic, controversial, and offensive video content to ensure compliance with YouTube’s Advertiser Friendly Guidelines.