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About the Role

Discord is seeking an experienced Safety Policy Lead to own the youth safety policy portfolio. This role involves driving policy development and lifecycle management across child sexual abuse material, grooming, and child exploitation, requiring deep domain expertise and regulatory literacy.

Responsibilities

• Research and develop safety policies governing youth safety harms on Discord, including CSAM, grooming and solicitation, child exploitation, and age assurance.
• Own the full policy lifecycle for your domain: problem scoping, data justification, structured XFN consultation, testing against enforcement criteria, and post-launch feedback loop management.
• Partner with Legal early in the development process to embed compliance requirements for KOSA, COPPA, DSA Article 28, and the Online Safety Act into policy design.
• Co-develop enforcement infrastructure with Trust and Safety, Engineering, and ML teams, including golden datasets, classification hierarchies, ML signal specifications, and IKB anchor criteria.
• Own the feedback loop from implementation and QA back to policy work, driving revisions when policy gaps are identified.
• Collaborate with civil society, NCMEC, ICAC, and other external child safety organizations, representing Discord externally.
• Deliver rapid policy responses to emerging child safety threats, including cross-functional coordination during incidents and regulatory notifications.
• Own at least one functional domain area for the Safety Policy team beyond your harm portfolio (e.g., policy implementation systems, AI/LLM governance, or safety-by-design frameworks).

Requirements

• 5 or more years of experience in trust and safety, policy development, or child safety roles at a technology platform or civil society organization focused on child protection.
• Deep expertise in youth safety: CSAM, NCMEC/ICAC frameworks, CSAM hash-matching systems, grooming and solicitation patterns, age assurance methodologies, and the regulatory landscape governing minors online.
• Direct experience with KOSA, COPPA, DSA child safety provisions, and/or the Online Safety Act.
• Proven ability to write policy that survives implementation: clear enforcement criteria, defined classification hierarchies, and usable edge case guidance.
• Experience working with ML and automation teams to translate policy criteria into detection signals.
• Comfort making decisions under ambiguity and pressure.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for diverse audiences.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.

Skills

• Youth safety policy development
• CSAM
• Grooming and solicitation
• Child exploitation
• Age assurance
• KOSA
• COPPA
• DSA Article 28
• Online Safety Act
• Regulatory literacy
• Policy lifecycle management
• ML and automation collaboration
• Cross-functional coordination
• External representation
• Incident response
• AI/LLM governance
• Safety-by-design frameworks

Location

• San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties)

Work Type

• Full-time
• Relocation assistance may be available

Experience Level

• 5 or more years of experience

Education Level

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience
• Advanced degree in law, public policy, child development, psychology, or a related field (Bonus)

Salary/Compensations

• $192,000 to $216,000

Benefits

• Equity
• Benefits

About the Company

• Discord has a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users who use the platform for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does: play video games.
• Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, and we are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games.
• Discord is a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests, and helps developers build and grow their businesses.
• We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank.
• Join us in our mission!

Equal Opportunity

• Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process.
• We want you to feel set up for success, so if you are in need of reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know.