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Strategic Risk Manager, Ads

2 Months ago • 7-12 Years • Operations

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Job Description

As a Strategic Risk Manager, Ads, you'll be a key player in ensuring the safety and integrity of Google Ads. You'll be responsible for identifying potential risks, conducting impact assessments, and developing mitigation strategies to manage product abuse, high-stakes events, and global crises related to Google Ads. You'll work with a team to build an Ads-focused issue mitigation pod, lead projects related to crisis management, and analyze past incidents to propose and implement strategies for improvement. You'll also take charge in critical Ads incidents, coordinating and communicating with various teams for resolution. This role requires strong analytical, communication, and leadership skills, as well as the ability to navigate sensitive content and situations. You'll be working with Google engineers and product managers to ensure the highest levels of user safety within Google Ads.

Must have:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
7 years of experience in Trust and Safety, policy, cyber-security, or related fields
5 years of experience in escalation management, crisis management, or a related field
Experience in cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management across multiple issues
Experience with managing escalations and crises, and working with front-line teams and executives simultaneously
Excellent communication and presentation skills (written and verbal) and the ability to influence cross-functionally at various levels
Excellent problem-solving and critical thinking skills with attention to detail in an ever-changing environment

Good to have:

Experience working with engineering and product teams to create tools, solutions, or automation to improve user safety
Experience working with policy teams
Experience with Google products, infrastructure, and types of online abuse
Ability to work across time zones, including weekend oncall work

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
7 years of experience in Trust and Safety, policy, cyber-security, or related fields.
5 years of experience in escalation management, crisis management, or a related field.
Experience in cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management across multiple issues.
Experience with managing escalations and crises, and working with front-line teams and executives at the same time.

Preferred qualifications:

Experience working with engineering and product teams to create tools, solutions, or automation to improve user safety.
Experience working with policy teams.
Experience with Google products, infrastructure, and types of online abuse.
Ability to work across time zones, including weekend oncall work.
Excellent communication and presentation skills (written and verbal) and the ability to influence cross-functionally at various levels.
Excellent problem-solving and critical 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 diverse 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

Identify potential strategic risks to users or Google products, conduct impact assessments, and develop mitigation strategies to manage product abuse, high-stakes events, and global crises specifically in the world of Google Ads.
Contribute to the building of a Google Ads-focused issue mitigation pod on the team and lead projects that contribute to crisis management.
Review past incidents, identifying context, root causes, and strategic actions for improvement in the business generation space, and propose, communicate, and drive initiatives to strengthen future response across Trust and Safety.
Take command in critical Ads incidents, ensuring coordination and communication across teams for resolution, minimizing negative user and organizational impact.
Work with sensitive content or situations and may be exposed to graphic, controversial, or upsetting topics or content.

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