Venable LLP's Technology & Innovation Group's Venable Blue team seeks a Senior Analyst, Trust & Safety to join the Washington, D.C., New York, San Francisco, or Los Angeles office. This is a non-attorney position.

The Senior Analyst, Trust & Safety will be responsible for content moderation and abuse reporting, identifying product risks, and policy development and analysis. The Senior Analyst will serve as an important line of defense to help improve the quality and safety of online content, research and define product risks, and accordingly develop appropriate safety policies, guidelines, and strategies. To do so, the Senior Analyst, Trust & Safety will partner with cross-functional client stakeholders across product, engineering, research, and legal teams to innovate and define Trust & Safety approaches based on leading industry practices and latest market trends. The work of the Senior Analyst, Trust & Safety will be fast-paced, dynamic, proactive, and impactful. The person in this role will deliver value to our clients, while making a larger impact on society.

Key Responsibilities Include:

Content Moderation

• Manage relationships with cross-functional client teams to develop an understanding of and solve online content concerns.
• Analyze and review user profiles, audio, videos, and text-based content and/or investigating, escalating, and/or resolving issues.
• Review and remove content according to client guidelines, using specific tools and channels.
• Investigate, resolve, and relay complex content issues to the appropriate stakeholders.
• Ability to work with sensitive issues and content that may be considered offensive or disturbing at times.

Product Risks

• Establish clear and operable safety and ethical guidelines for products, developing expertise across a range of safety and editorial topics.
• Assess risks and design mitigations (including policy enforcement frameworks) associated with deployment of products.
• Monitor and analyze user interactions with products to inform policy development and enforcement.

Policy

• Develop, maintain, and implement Trust & Safety policies, apply an analytic approach to delve into the minute details of user behavior, and provide recommendations to ensure continuous improvement.
• Analyze existing policies and guidelines to identify gaps, inconsistencies, and/or conflicts.
• Conduct efficacy reviews to determine whether policies are applied accurately.
• Work with key stakeholders to implement policy changes.

Qualifications:

• B.A. or B.S. degree required; Master's degree (or equivalent) preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years' of experience within Trust & Safety, privacy, product, policy, cybersecurity, anti-abuse, or related fields.
• Excellent project management skills to both stand up and implement Trust & Safety procedures and policies.
• Consistent track record to use collect, synthesize, analyze, and interpret both quantitative and qualitative data.
• Ability to perform duties objectively, devoid of inherent biases or personal beliefs, in the best interest of the client.
• Deep familiarity and passion for the internet, internet platforms, and internet culture.
• 5 years' of minimum work experience in high profile settings, such as presenting to leadership and driving cross-functional teams.
• Strong attention to detail, highly determined, and results oriented.
• Hands-on operational Trust & Safety experience in online tech sectors highly valuable, combination of private and government experience acceptable.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills for both VP-level stakeholders as well as mid-level stakeholders.
• Executive presence and ability to lead, manage, and coordinate cross-functional teams across numerous stakeholders.
• Critical thinking and ability to perform well under pressure and ambiguous situations.
• Strong proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and Google Docs is required.

Venable offers full-service solutions to everything from routine to novel privacy and cybersecurity challenges. Our team brings to bear significant experience and industry knowledge to help clients satisfy data privacy and security laws and maximize their business potential. Fully immersed in all aspects of data privacy, cybersecurity, and information governance, Venable is unique among privacy and cybersecurity practices.

We participate in legislative advocacy, rulemakings, and development of new legal standards. Our team advises organizations with regard to industry best practices and drafting codes of conduct and standards, helping them stay compliant with federal, state, international, and self-regulatory requirements.

We strengthen the integrity of our clients' data, ecommerce security, and customer or user records; develop internal data collection and use practices; and ensure the creation of sound privacy policies and procedures.

Venable Blue helps organizations and individuals manage and mitigate risk in the online space. Whether it's an issue of data access, account takeover, cyber harassment, child safety, or a government or regulatory investigation, we build, operationalize, and deploy integrated programs and systems designed with people and products in mind.

For additional information about the Technology & Innovation Group, Venable Blue team see: .

Venable LLP is an American Lawyer Global 100 law firm headquartered in Washington, D.C., with offices in California, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, New York, and Virginia. Our lawyers and legislative advisors serve domestic and international clients in all areas of corporate and business law, complex litigation, intellectual property, regulatory matters, and government affairs. Additional information can be found at Venable.com.

The salary range for Senior Analyst, Trust & Safety positions is $130,000 - $160,000 per year. This is the minimum and maximum salary that Venable in good faith believes at the time of this posting that it is willing to pay for the advertised position. Exact compensation will be determined based on individual candidate qualifications and location.

Venable LLP is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, protected Veteran status and any other protected basis under applicable law.

We comply with the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring and the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. Conviction of a crime will not necessarily be a bar to employment at the Firm. Factors such as age at the time of the offense, type of the offense, seriousness of the offense, remoteness of the offense in time, position applied for, rehabilitation, overall record, and other relevant factors will be taken into account in determining effect on suitability for employment.