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

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!