Safety Policy Lead, Youth Safety

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 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.
• 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 to translate policy criteria into detection signals.
• 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.