# Safety Policy Lead, Youth Safety

**Company**: Discord
**Location**: Los Angeles
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $192,000 to $216,000
**Category**: Policy
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Discord is seeking an experienced Safety Policy Lead to own its youth safety policy portfolio. As a member of the Safety Policy team within Product Policy, you will drive policy development and lifecycle management across the full spectrum of youth safety harms: child sexual abuse material, grooming, and child exploitation.

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 consultation, testing against enforcement criteria, and post-launch feedback loop management.

- Partner with Legal 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.

- Own the feedback loop from implementation and QA back to your policy work.

- Collaborate with civil society, NCMEC, ICAC, and other external child safety organizations.

- Deliver rapid policy responses to emerging child safety threats.

- Own at least one functional domain area for the Safety Policy team beyond your harm portfolio.

Requirements:

- 5+ years of experience in trust and safety, policy development, or child safety roles.

- 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.

- Experience working with ML and automation teams.

- Comfort making decisions under ambiguity and pressure.

- Strong written and verbal communication skills.

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.

Benefits:

- The US base salary range for this full-time position is $192,000 to $216,000 + equity + benefits.

## Skills

### Required
- youth safety
- policy development
- child safety
- regulatory compliance
- ML and automation

### Nice to have
- Advanced degree in law, public policy, child development, psychology
- Experience with Discord's platform or gaming and creator communities
- Multilingual capabilities

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