Responsible Content Specialist

• Job location: Redmond, WA or Reno, NV (on-site only, no hybrid option).

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• Perform content moderation tasks to identify and remove explicit and illegal content from our platforms including, but not limited to CSEA (Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse) & VET (Violent Extremist & Terrorism) content. Analyzes and reviews several types of media such as images, videos, and text-based content based on guidelines and policies while maintaining high fidelity and consistency.
• Recognizes data trends and understands policy implementation. Participate in and drive continuous improvement in processes, guidelines, procedures, policy, and tooling.
• Familiarizes self with guidelines to identify quality problems, and/or discover insights into the data. Develops advanced understanding of guidelines and identifies gaps and when they should be used.
• Works with Managers to understand the requirements and specifications of the projects/tasks and creates processes and work instructions based on those requirements and specifications.
• Identifies internal opportunities to develop new projects and improve current ones. Identifies root problems (e.g., root-cause analysis), define the project strategy, gather requirements, identify needs, create the project plan and targets, and work across teams to align on the plan.
• Work with cross-functional (e.g., organizational, product, business) stakeholders (e.g., Engineering, Marketing) to design programs/projects from initiation to delivery.
• Learns to produce collateral (e.g., proposals, strategy walking deck, internal and external pitch content) to incorporate stakeholder needs and ensure the business objectives are met.
• Learn how to track the success criteria and performance metrics such as quality, throughput, and SLA Metrics.
• Cooperates with project leads to define and execute landing and communication plans, such as the target audience(s) and communication strategy.
• Maintains the rhythm of business (ROB) during plan execution to ensure global alignment.
• Works across teams and centers to ensure all projects/initiative requirements are understood and can be met.
• Learns to convert stakeholders to gain buy in. Leverages data and performance metrics (e.g., Objectives and Key Results [OKRs] and Key Performance Indicators [KPIs]) to demonstrate the value of the projects and show business impact under close guidance from senior team members.
• Adapts communication style and storytelling strategy according to audience and business needs.
• Understands and follows ethics and privacy policies when collecting and preparing guidelines or contributing to development of the guidelines. Adheres to Microsoft's privacy policy related to utilizing and working with data.
• Identifies data integrity problems. Maintains high standard of data protection and security, follows standardized processes to prevent any information leakage or breach that could compromise the quality and reliability of products and services and minimizes exposure to risk. Demonstrates personal ownership through following S&P guidelines, immediately reporting incidents using the appropriate channels, and completes all security training. Applies policies and procedures under oversight from managers and peers to meet business needs.
• May interpret the information to protect Microsoft and customers and move the business forward. Discovers non-conformance and escalates to management.

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Considerations:

The Responsible Content Specialist will encounter potentially offensive and mature material as part of their work and will be required to engage with this type of content to help train our AI models for the protection of Microsoft’s customers. This role requires availability for on-call, after-hours, flexible shifts, and weekend work.