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Responsibilities

The Rapid Response team aims to ensure the safety of our users on the platform by responding to varying levels of incidents. As a Rapid Response Analyst within our Trust & Safety team, you will be on the front line coordinating our response to major global Trust & Safety incidents, while also driving proactive sweeps, containment, and continuous improvement of our incident response playbooks.

It is possible that this role will be exposed to harmful content as part of the core role / as part of project / in response to incident requests / by chance.

Responsibilities:
- Incident Response: Lead the development and execution of a comprehensive crisis management plan for Trust & Safety incidents, ensuring a swift and effective response to emerging threats or challenges. This role will primarily cover escalations from LATAM and Brazil regions.
- Proactive Sweeps & Trend Detection: Conduct sweeps for violative content and emerging trends across features to surface incidents before they escalate, and identify patterns, trends, and gaps in content enforcement during incidents.
- Containment: Contain high-risk content quickly and thoroughly during live incidents, ensuring timely mitigation of escalations and crises.
- Maintain Composure in fast paced Situations: Exhibit comfort, methodical thinking, and calmness, ensuring steadfast and effective crisis management.
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Collaborate with Trust & Safety, Public Relations, Public Policy, Legal, Product, and Engineering teams to coordinate responses to critical incidents and manage communication strategies.
- Workflow & Playbook Development: Develop and refine incident response and containment workflows, leveraging both automation and manual review as needed.
- Data Analysis: Use quantitative methods to analyze incident data to identify areas of risk and opportunity, translating insights into mid-term mitigations and long-term policy, product, and process improvements.
- Content Policy Compliance: Ensure that crisis responses align with regulatory standards and the company's content policies and guidelines, working to maintain a safe and positive user experience.
- Post-Incident Analysis & Effectiveness Measurement: Lead post-incident evaluations to assess the effectiveness of response and containment actions, identify areas for improvement, and iterate on playbooks for continuous improvement.
- Documentation & Insights Sharing: Maintain incident documentation and share insights across Trust & Safety to support ongoing risk reduction.
- Availability to work on weekends on a rotational basis.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualification(s):
- Bachelor's degree and 4+ years of experience in Trust & Safety Incident, Risk, Investigations, Escalations or Crisis Management roles, or related areas.
- Proficiency in Portuguese required (reading and writing) as this role will support escalations coming from the LATAM and Brazil regions.
- Ability to work effectively in a high-tempo environment.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to simplify and present complex issues to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong quantitative skills and a data-driven mindset, with demonstrated ability to identify patterns and enforcement gaps in moderation systems (proficiency with SQL).
- Experience with content moderation enforcement tools to investigate and action violative content.
- Understanding of Trust & Safety challenges, and global legal and regulatory frameworks related to online safety and harm prevention.

Preferred Qualification(s):
- Experience working in a technology or digital platform environment.
- Strong project management skills and thought leadership.
- Strong data skills with SQL, Python, or similar scripting languages to solve complex problems.
- Hands-on ability to design and launch tools, processes or systems from scratch.
- Familiarity with content moderation tools, AI/ML solutions, and automation for risk management and containment.
- Experience operating across the incident-to-prevention lifecycle, from acute response through containment and long-term risk reduction.
- Knowledge of cultural sensitivities and regional differences in harmful content definitions and enforcement.

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $97200 - $180000 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;

2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and

3. Exercising sound judgment.

Responsibilities

Qualifications

Qualifications

Minimum Qualification(s):
- Bachelor's degree and 4+ years of experience in Trust & Safety Incident, Risk, Investigations, Escalations or Crisis Management roles, or related areas.
- Proficiency in Portuguese required (reading and writing) as this role will support escalations coming from the LATAM and Brazil regions.
- Ability to work effectively in a high-tempo environment.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to simplify and present complex issues to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong quantitative skills and a data-driven mindset, with demonstrated ability to identify patterns and enforcement gaps in moderation systems (proficiency with SQL).
- Experience with content moderation enforcement tools to investigate and action violative content.
- Understanding of Trust & Safety challenges, and global legal and regulatory frameworks related to online safety and harm prevention.

Preferred Qualification(s):
- Experience working in a technology or digital platform environment.
- Strong project management skills and thought leadership.
- Strong data skills with SQL, Python, or similar scripting languages to solve complex problems.
- Hands-on ability to design and launch tools, processes or systems from scratch.
- Familiarity with content moderation tools, AI/ML solutions, and automation for risk management and containment.
- Experience operating across the incident-to-prevention lifecycle, from acute response through containment and long-term risk reduction.
- Knowledge of cultural sensitivities and regional differences in harmful content definitions and enforcement.

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