Senior Policy Manager - Content Trust & Safety

About DoubleVerify

DoubleVerify is the recognised market innovator with the technology and tools that accurately authenticate the quality of digital media and drive ad performance for the world's largest brands. DV provides media transparency and accountability to deliver the highest level of impression quality for maximum advertising performance. Since 2008, DV has helped hundreds of Fortune 500 companies gain the most from their media spend by delivering best in class solutions across the digital ecosystem that help build a better industry. Learn more at .

Job Description

DoubleVerify is seeking a Senior Product Policy Manager to direct the company’s approach to content classification. The senior policy manager will work across content verticals ranging from misinformation and hate speech to crime, violence and disasters. Candidates should have knowledge of or interest in internet policy issues and media regulatory issues and/or law. They should also have excellent writing and analytical skills.

Responsibilities

Contribute to content vertical policy development roadmaps.

Steer ongoing policy improvement prioritisation based on a variety of input from a diversity of stakeholders.

Develop policy positions and write policies to inform classification across content verticals.

Train labelling teams on product policy and communicate policy concepts.

Articulate policy positions for internal teams in order to support client queries and requests.

Drive research on public opinions and advertiser perspectives in order to inform policy creation and policy adjustments.

Collaborate with linguists and data scientists when creating classification models.

Minimum Qualifications

3-4 years of experience in product or content policy.

Experience in or working with the technology industry.

Excellent writing and analytical skills.

Familiarity with web and social media content trends.

Interest in and passion for policy and content classification/moderation.

Preferred Qualifications

Familiarity with national or international policy proposals or frameworks for addressing harmful content online.

Familiarity with internet policy issues.

Familiarity with content moderation or classification.

The successful candidate’s starting salary will be determined based on a number of non-discriminating factors, including qualifications for the role, level, skills, experience, location, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at DV.
We are often open to a wide variety of profiles, and recognise that the person we hire may be more or less experienced than this job description as posted.

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