Safety Policy Lead, Youth Safety

<div class="content-intro"><p>Discord has a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users who use the platform for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does: <strong>play video games.</strong> Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, and we are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games.</p></div><p>We are seeking an experienced Safety Policy Lead to own Discord's 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. This role requires deep domain expertise, strong regulatory literacy, and the ability to translate complex child safety requirements into enforceable policy and durable implementation.</p> <p>This is a lifecycle ownership role, not a drafting role. You will be accountable for policy quality from problem identification through enforcement quality, with visibility into implementation, QA, and the feedback loops that determine whether policy intent survives contact with enforcement.</p> <p><em>Please note: This role involves regular exposure to potentially disturbing content, including child sexual abuse material, exploitation imagery, and grooming-related content. Wellness support is provided.</em></p> <p><strong>What you'll be doing</strong></p> <ul> <li>Research and develop safety policies governing youth safety harms on Discord, including CSAM, grooming and solicitation, child exploitation, and age assurance, covering both reactive harm response and proactive age-appropriate design.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>Partner with Legal early in the development process. Embed compliance requirements for KOSA, COPPA, DSA Article 28, and the Online Safety Act into policy design before drafting begins.</li> <li>Co-develop enforcement infrastructure with Trust and Safety, Engineering, and ML teams, including golden datasets, classification hierarchies, ML signal specifications, and IKB anchor criteria.</li> <li>Own the feedback loop from implementation and QA back to your policy work. When QA findings or overturn data indicate a policy gap, you drive the revision.</li> <li>Collaborate with civil society, NCMEC, ICAC, and other external child safety organizations. Represent Discord externally in this domain with credibility and consistency.</li> <li>Deliver rapid policy responses to emerging child safety threats, including cross-f