Minimum qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience
3 years of experience working in internet technologies, related policy and regulatory environments and challenges affecting the internet, free expression, online safety, and content moderation
Ability to speak and write in Russian fluently
Preferred qualifications:
Master’s degree, other advanced degree, or equivalent practical experience
Experience working with one or more of the following: internet technologies, related policy and regulatory environments and challenges affecting the internet, free expression, online safety, and content moderation
Experience using data/technology to identify and solve business issues or experience diagnosing operational pain points and leading efforts to reduce these issues
Experience working with, influencing, and collaborate with a broad array of cross-functional stakeholders and excellent communication skills
Understanding of Russian sociopolitical environment, current events, and cultural nuances
About the job
As a Policy Specialist, you will ensure the success of your team by creating and improving processes, analyzing and creating policies with supporting documentation, and coordinating communications across the team. You will join a team responsible for setting a strategy for the team’s engagement with Russia Regional Legal and Public Policy teams on content removal requests, and influencing cross-functional stakeholders to prioritize users’ and Legal Removals’ needs.
This may include developing/launching policies and processes to scale requirements from upcoming legislation regarding content moderation issues. You will also work with legal removal requests from receipt to resolution, which entails reviewing and processing online content based on internal policy. In this role, you will review or to be exposed to sensitive 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.
Responsibilities
Analyze policy and legal challenges facing technology platforms and make recommendations on how Google should address them.
Develop, launch, and enforce scalable policies and processes for working with legal content removal requests from Russia. Partner with technical teams to drive and coordinate the development and maintenance of Legal Removals tools and processes.
Serve as a strategic advisor and liaison to cross-functional stakeholders, including Legal, Public Policy, Trust and Safety, and Engineering.
Engage and communicate with users, governments, and other internal and external stakeholders on policy issues, and resolve policy escalations to ensure legal policy analysis and recommendations consider all teams’ perspectives.
Work occasional off-hours coverage rotations.
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