Trust & Safety Policy - Platform Safety Policy Principal Lead (Data & AI products)

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 97M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

We're looking for a curious, adaptable, and experienced Platform Safety Policy Principal Lead to join Reddit’s Trust & Safety Policy team (TSP). TSP focuses on a variety of trust and safety areas, with an emphasis on protecting the expression rights, safety, and private information of communities across Reddit through strategic policies and solutions that balance defensible risk. Within TSP, the Platform Safety Policy team develops principled, data-informed, and practical policies and standards that set understandable expectations for Reddit users and support responsible product development across the Reddit platform. 

This role will focus on developing product policies and policy enforcement workflows supporting Reddit's growing data licensing business, developer platform services, and AI-related product initiatives. 

What You'll Do:

• Refine public content and data use policies relating to Reddit's data licensing business and developer services 
• Review inbound requests to use Reddit content and data to unlock partnership opportunities (enterprise licensee applications, end user applications, Reddit for Researchers, etc.) 
• Develop policy and enforcement workflows that enable scaling of the data licensing business in a safe and responsible manner
• Build out detailed policies, internal review guidelines, and escalation processes for developer services and app review  
• Create digestible policy documentation for external consumption by data partners and developers
• Advise product teams on potential abuses and misuses related to AI/ML product initiatives and provide policy guidance
• Devise sustainable prioritization strategies to balance policy development timelines against business needs
• Build strong cross-functional relationships with Legal, Product, Engineering, and other internal teams, and gain deep knowledge of Reddit's business and products.
• Partner with colleagues across Trust & Safety Policy on team-wide initiatives

What We're Looking For:

• 7+ years of experience in the online safety or site integrity space
• Subject matter expertise in navigating complex policy and technical requirements pertaining to API/data products and developer tools
• Direct experience developing policies and recommendations for products leveraging AI/ML technologies
• Experience with building policy enforcement workflows from scratch and creating reliable documentation 
• Ability to assess risk strategically and develop clear recommendations that support stakeholders’ goals
• Proactive communicator who can collaborate and bring alignment across multiple functions – and maintain a sense of humor
• Self-starter who can work independently on both on strategic goals and the day-to-day execution of smaller tasks
• International perspective to risk assessment and policy development is a plus!

Pay Transparency:

This job posting may span more than one career level.

In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.

The base pay range for this position is:$194,600—$272,400 USD

Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve.  Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at ApplicationAssistance@Reddit.com.

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