# Manager, Law Enforcement Response Team

**Company**: xAI
**Location**: Bastrop, TX
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q120599684

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/xai/jobs/4959528007
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_d48f20ce-8dc

## Description

As the Manager of the Law Enforcement Response Team, you will lead a diverse, global team in processing sensitive legal requests from start to finish, including document intake, processing, and follow-up.

Experience in leading law enforcement response operations, managing global teams, and optimizing workflows is essential. You will ensure accurate, efficient processing while mentoring and promoting accountability and innovation.

Responsibilities:

- Lead complex projects that impact organisational performance, aligning with priorities to set goals and optimise results.

- Maintain knowledge of regulations, policies, and procedures; speak to regulatory bodies or auditors on workflows and operations.

- Strengthen the team via hiring, development plans, and growth opportunities.

- Adapt to high-demand changes, delegate effectively, stay calm under pressure, and motivate the team.

- Assess team needs in a dynamic legal landscape, emphasising user protection, transparency, policy development, scaling, and distributed collaboration via electronic tools.

- Communicate with internal stakeholders like Safety Leadership and Counsel on operations; update team on company changes.

- Analyze team performance with data visualisations and feedback; drive global QA strategy and consistency.

- Propose process improvements based on trends, owning segments for operational efficiency.

- Support sensitive escalations, answer policy questions, interpret metrics, and improve processes cross-functionally.

- Join on-call rotations for emergencies, addressing sensitive content (e.g., exploitation, violence) maturely.

- You may represent the company externally, such as in witness testimony or law enforcement interactions.

- Drive AI Automation: Collaborate with product engineering and data science teams to implement AI-based tools for case management, optimising workflows and reducing manual workloads.

Basic Qualifications:

- MA/MS Degree or equivalent in business, criminal justice, political science, law, international relations, or related field.

- 10+ years in law enforcement response, trust and safety, compliance, or legal background.

- 5+ years managing people, including global/distributed teams.

- Fluent in written and spoken English; excellent judgment, strategic thinking, and detail-orientation.

- Experience with legal request processing, scaling operations, and policy development.

- Exceptional communication, writing, and analytical skills; passion for privacy and expression.

- Perseverance, grit; ability to work through ambiguity.

- Availability to be on-call, including over weekends.

- Skilled in systems, software (e.g., Google Suite, data tools); must pass background check

Preferred Skills and Experience:

- 8-10+ years in Safety/Legal Operations at tech/social media company.

- An active X user with a deep understanding of the platform’s role as a global public square and its Safety challenges.

- Able to work onsite in Bastrop and travel as needed to collaborate with global teams.

ITAR Requirements:

- To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorisations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.

## Skills

### Required
- law enforcement response
- trust and safety
- compliance
- legal background
- global/distributed teams
- legal request processing
- scaling operations
- policy development
- Google Suite
- data tools

### Nice to have
- Safety/Legal Operations
- X user
- global public square
- Safety challenges