Policy Specialist, Legal Content Policy Standards

Google will be prioritizing applicants who have a current right to work in Singapore, and do not require Google's sponsorship of a visa.

**Minimum qualifications**:

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience in a policy, legal, regulatory environment, content review, Trust and Safety, or technology environment.
- Ability to communicate in Japanese and English fluently to support client relationship management in this region.
- Ability to work non-standard, on-call rotation work hours, including weekends.

**Preferred qualifications**:

- Experience in technology industry business areas, such as operations, data analysis, and internet/online media.
- Knowledge of the socio-political landscape and current events in Japan.
- Knowledge of the technology sector, its trends, and policy issues affecting the internet (e.g., intellectual property, free expression, online safety).
- Ability to execute analysis to drive development.
- Excellent project management and communication skills, with cross-functional partners and problem-solving and thinking skills with attention to detail in an ever-changing environment.

**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.

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 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**:

- Lead legal removals issues by identifying and analyzing content moderation trends and policy issues affecting the Internet in the APAC/Japan region. Lead discussions with cross-functional stakeholders on emerging regulations and its implications on legal removals landscape at Google.
- Manage content operations and drive escalations of sensitive government requests, by liaising with Product, Public Policy, Communications, and Legal teams. Balance legal considerations to resolve issues.
- Develop and launch policies and guidelines for handling volumes of requests, based on different regional trends and legal issues (data protection, copyright, defamation, etc).
- Work with, and exposure to graphic, controversial, or upsetting content.
- Participate in the on call rotation schedule to manage escalations that may occur outside of non standard work hours including weekends/holidays.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.