Policy Strategist, Kids and Families

Job description

Applicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: New York, NY, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA . Minimum qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 7 years of experience in a policy, legal, trust and safety, or technology environment.
• Experience working with AI-related policy issues in child safety, online harms, or age-appropriate product design.
Preferred qualifications:
• Advanced degree in an academic field focused on pediatric or adolescent development, child protection policy, or the psychological impact of digital products on children and youth.
• 8 years of experience in child or adolescent development, such as through working directly with people, advocating for children’s rights, or advanced degrees in developmental psychology.
• Ability to translate complex issues into simple and clear language, collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, and navigate organizational boundaries.
• Ability to influence director-level product and engineering stakeholders without formal authority.
• Excellent problem-solving and critical thinking skills with attention to detail in an ever-changing environment.
About the job
Trust & Safety team members are tasked with identifying and taking on the biggest problems that challenge the safety and integrity of our products. They 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. On this team, you're a big-picture thinker and strategic 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 the highest levels of user safety.
As a Policy Strategist, you will serve as a primary domain authority and strategic lead for kids and teens content safety. You will handle novel, highly ambiguous policy challenges spanning generative AI, emerging product capabilities and interactions, and age-appropriate content ecosystem risks.
In this role, you will lead proactive policy formulation, partner with Engineering and Product Management to embed safety-by-design into product roadmaps, and serve as a senior escalation lead on critical issues. Your work will be grounded in research-based age-appropriate developmental needs of kids and teens. This role requires exceptional judgment, strong cross-functional influence, and the ability to turn complex academic research and global safety regulations into scalable policy frameworks.
At Google we work hard to earn our users’ trust every day. Trust & 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.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $164000 - $239000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more about benefits at Google .
Responsibilities
• Drive the development and iteration of comprehensive, research-grounded policies and strategies that ensure Google's products offer age-appropriate experiences to protect people from harmful content.
• Serve as a senior escalation authority for critical, high-visibility policy issues, translating acute incidents into long-term systemic fixes.
• Partner as the primary safety advisor to Product Managers, UX Designers, and SWE leads to embed safety-by-design principles into product roadmaps and ensure safety before launch.
• Track industry and social trends, analyze policy issues facing technology platforms, make recommendations on how to address these challenges across multiple Google products.
• Work with sensitive content or situations and may be exposed to graphic, controversial, and/or upsetting topics or content.
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .