Product Policy & Compliance Specialist

4 Months ago • 3-5 Years • Editorial • Legal • $114,300 PA - $127,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Niantic's Legal Department seeks a Product Policy & Compliance Specialist to lead policy development for its products and services, focusing on content moderation, user-generated content, and online safety. This role involves drafting, implementing, and maintaining policies; collaborating with Product, Legal, UX, and Player Experience teams; assessing new products for user safety; researching and benchmarking industry approaches; and participating in industry knowledge sharing. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in drafting content policies and experience working cross-functionally to drive consensus. The role requires in-office work 2 days a week.
Must have:
  • Draft and implement content & user safety policies
  • Collaborate cross-functionally (Product, Legal, UX)
  • Assess new products for user safety, identify policy gaps
  • Expert in content moderation & user safety regulations
  • Strong writing & editing skills
  • High attention to detail & organizational skills
Good to have:
  • Regulatory compliance experience in online safety
Perks:
  • Bonus
  • Equity
  • Benefits

Job Details

Niantic’s Legal Department is hiring a Product Policy and Compliance Specialist to lead policy development for its products and services, including content moderation, user generated content, and online safety. Niantic Legal partners with teams across the company to develop solutions for the legal, compliance and public policy challenges (and opportunities!) the company encounters as it continues to develop innovative augmented reality experiences.

This role will collaborate with cross functional partners to be the subject matter expert on Niantic policies, identify areas for policy creation or refinement, and track regulatory and industry developments in content safety. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in drafting content policies for internal and external stakeholders and engaging cross functionally to drive consensus. As part of the distributed Trust & Safety function across Niantic, this role will sit within the Legal team and partner closely with the Product, UX, and Player Experience teams.

Responsibilities

  • Draft, implement and maintain content and user safety policies across surfaces; develop process to track and document policy development;
  • Work cross functionally with Product, Legal, UX and Player Experience to assess new products and features with a focus on user safety, identifying and assessing gaps between policy and design where applicable;
  • Be an expert on all content moderation and user safety regulatory and policy areas relevant to the business,
  • Research and benchmark industry and regulatory approaches to user safety to anticipate risks to users and Niantic;
  • Participate in knowledge sharing with industry partners in the Trust & Safety space
  • Collaborate with cross-functional team members and stakeholders, including regular and reliable attendance and participation in meetings.
  • Required in-office 2 days.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent qualification
  • 3-5 years of experience in trust and safety, online safety policy or a related field
  • Strong writing and editing skills, with the ability to convey complex information clearly and concisely
  • Ability to work cross functionally and support safety-by-design practices in product development;
  • High attention to detail and strong organizational skills;
  • Excellent interpersonal and stakeholder management skills;
  • Experience with regulatory compliance in online safety is a plus
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced hybrid environment and handle stress appropriately and/or ability to solve practical problems and be sufficiently adaptable to handle dynamic situations with little advance notice.
  • Experience working on cross-functional teams with ability to communicate effectively through written and verbal communications, including asynchronous interactions with others.

 

The total compensation package for this position includes a new hire offer base salary range of $114,300.00 - $127,000.00 + bonus + equity + benefits.

Individual pay within this salary range is determined by work location and additional factors, including assessed job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can answer any questions about new hire total compensation during the hiring process. An overview of benefit offerings for your location can be found on the careers page.

Join the Niantic team!

Niantic's global-scale augmented reality platform and digital map powers spatial computing experiences in the real world. Incubated out of the Maps team at Google, Niantic first created Ingress and then Pokémon GO, a cultural phenomenon and hit game played by tens of millions of people each month. Niantic’s Lightship platform, which powers Pokémon GO, also supports the company's other games including Pikmin Bloom, Peridot and Monster Hunter Now. Developers use Niantic’s platform to build their own AR applications and experiences, either with the Lightship Platform or directly through the web with 8th Wall.

We believe that cultivating a workplace where our people are supported and included is essential to creating great products our community will love. Our mission emphasizes seeking and hiring diverse voices, including those who are traditionally underrepresented in the technology industry, and we consider this to be one of the most important values we hold close.

Niantic is a hybrid first company. We believe that in person interaction and collaboration fosters creativity, a sense of community, and is critical to our future success as a company. Our hybrid work schedules allow for a mix of remote and in-office work.

We're a hard-working, fun, and exciting group who value intellectual curiosity and a passion for problem-solving! We have growing offices located in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Palo Alto, Bellevue, Kansas, London, Tokyo, Hamburg, Hyderabad, and Zürich. #LI-HYBRID

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Niantic inspires people to explore the world, together. Our mission is to use emerging augmented reality (AR) technology to enrich our experiences as human beings in the physical world. Originally formed at Google in 2011, we are now an independent company with a strong group of investors including Nintendo, The Pokémon Company, and Alsop Louie Partners. We have offices located in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Seattle, Lawrence, Los Angeles, Tokyo, London, Hamburg, and Zurich. 

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