Associate Principal Launch Governance Analyst, Frontier Safety

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.

Launch Governance and Operations (LGO) is a team within Google's Trust and Safety's (T&S) Responsible AI pillar. It's mission is to ensure Google products are developed safely and responsibly by managing responsibility risks and governance for model and product launches.

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: $141000 - $205000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities

• Design, implement and scale governance processes for new generative and agentic AI models and launches related to Frontier Safety.
• Act as a trusted partner to executive stakeholders, building strong relationships and providing clear, compelling communications on complex trust and safety issues.
• Partner with cross-functional teams, including product, engineering, and research, to embed safety and trust-oriented processes and technologies directly into the model and product development lifecycle.
• Design and execute sophisticated data analyses to identify emerging risks, measure the effectiveness of our mitigations, and inform decisions.
• Optimize and scale operational workflows, continuously seeking opportunities to improve efficiency and quality.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 7 years of experience in data analytics, Trust and Safety, policy, cybersecurity, or related fields.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in relevant field.
  
• Experience with machine learning.
• Experience in SQL, building dashboards, data collection/transformation, visualization/dashboards, or experience in a scripting/programming language (e.g., Python).
  
• Excellent communication and presentation skills (written and verbal) and the ability to influence cross-functionally at various levels.
• Excellent problem-solving and critical thinking skills with attention to detail in an ever-changing environment.

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Washington D.C., DC, USA; Seattle, WA, USA.

In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year