Strategic Risk Manager

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.

In this role, you will join a team in the cross-product abuse and crisis management hub of Trust and Safety. We coordinate cross-functional response to high sensitivity escalations, connecting dots and synthesizing all incident intelligence, and driving the issue to resolution. Partnering cross-functionally across the business, we strive for a 360 view of cross-product risks facing Google to provide incident intelligence and abuse mitigation assurance.

This role works with sensitive content or situations and may be exposed to graphic, controversial, and/or upsetting topics or content.

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 diverse 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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $108,000-$158,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google .

Responsibilities

• Identify potential strategic risks to users or Google, conduct impact assessments, and develop mitigation strategies to manage high-stakes events and global crises.
• Develop and lead short and long-term projects that contribute to end-to-end crisis management, focusing on securing users and platforms. Build and maintain relationships with all required agencies to effectively address global and region-specific challenges.
• Develop working level knowledge of cross-platform risks facing Google users, platforms, and operations in order to prioritize areas in which to mitigate gaps. Review past incidents, identifying context, root causes, and drive initiatives for improvement.
• Take command in critical incidents, ensuring effective coordination and communication across teams for swift and effective resolution, minimizing negative user and organizational impact. Utilize our prioritization framework to consistently handle key issues, with a focus on investigating high pri issues.