Launch Manager, Trust and Safety, Chrome Extensions Security

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (statutory, where applicable); 5 days/event (discretionary)
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

About the job

Trust & Safety team members are tasked with identifying and taking on the biggest problems that challenge the safety and integrity of our products. They use technical know-how, excellent problem-solving skills, user insights, and proactive communication to protect users and our partners from abuse across Google products like Search, Maps, Gmail, and Google Ads. On this team, you're a big-picture thinker and strategic team-player with a passion for doing what’s right. You work globally and cross-functionally with Google engineers and product managers to identify and fight abuse and fraud cases at Google speed - with urgency. And you take pride in knowing that every day you are working hard to promote trust in Google and ensuring the highest levels of user safety.

As a Product Safety Launch Manager, you will shape the safety standards of new extensibility experiences in Chrome. You will function as the primary safety architect for new launches, bridging the gap between product goal and technical risk mitigation. You will collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, Policy, and Operations team to design offerings safely and provide Chrome users with secure new experiences. You will ensure that new Chrome customization primitives and features provide a trusted experience by building safety by design into the product lifecycle and making AI a foundational part of the user protection systems and protocols. You will combine a safety-first mindset with expert project management to minimize downstream abuse and coordinate with security and abuse analysts to build Trust and Safety (T&S) strategy for every new launch.

At Google we work hard to earn our users’ trust every day. Trust & Safety is Google’s team of abuse fighting and user trust experts working daily to make the internet a safer place. We partner with teams across Google to deliver bold solutions in abuse areas such as malware, spam and account hijacking. A team of Analysts, Policy Specialists, Engineers, and Program Managers, we work to reduce risk and fight abuse across all of Google’s products, protecting our users, advertisers, and publishers across the globe in over 40 languages.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $160,000-$237,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Understand the product roadmap and user journeys to work with security experts in providing safety requirements, milestones, and long-term protection strategies.
• Conduct proactive red teaming or pre-mortem sessions to identify potential harm vectors and help ideate safety-by-design solutions that prevent abuse before it occurs.
• Identify, collect, and prioritize requirements to secure experiences by design and build protection mechanisms for potential downstream abuse.
• Act as the central node between Engineering, Legal, and Policy teams to resolve conflicting priorities between product velocity and user safety.
• Monitor launch results, track performance against key safety metrics, identify insights, and implement improvement strategies until the product reaches a stabilized state.