Senior Manager, Scaled Detection & Enforcement, Trust & Safety

Company Description

Etsy is the global marketplace for unique and creative goods. We build, power, and evolve the tools and technologies that connect millions of entrepreneurs with millions of buyers around the world. As an Etsy employee, you will tackle unique, meaningful, and large-scale problems alongside passionate coworkers, all the while making a rewarding impact and Keeping Commerce Human.

As a Senior Manager, Scaled Detection & Enforcement, Trust & Safety, you will lead a team of Trust & Safety Specialists to mitigate violative content on Etsy’s Marketplace. You will drive the strategy for proactive detection from an Operations perspective across different Policy verticals in collaboration with our Engineering, Analytics and Product partners. You collaborate cross-functionally to implement procedures to improve labeling operations for model feedback, control optimization via improving precision and recall with the goal of automation across different detection systems.

You identify new content abuse trends and conduct risk assessments for new products and features we roll out.

• Lead, mentor and coach a distributed team responsible for detection and removal of policy violating content and behaviors on Etsy.
• Play a key role in shaping, driving and implementing the team's short & long term proactive abuse mitigation strategy, labeling operations and creating effective feedback loops, collaborating with cross-functional partner teams (Policy, Product, Engineering, Vendor Operations, Analytics).
• Bring a deep understanding of the abuse landscape. Identify and investigate new abuse trends, address them quickly with scaled detection and provide ongoing insights to partners. Analyze and draw conclusions on root-causes and define and implement mitigation steps.
• Handle and resolve critical issues that could pose legal, regulatory, or reputational risks; this may involve availability to handle customer issues on weekends on an ad-hoc basis.
• Be comfortable with exposure to potentially graphic, sensitive, and offensive content.
• Deliver improvements to our performance metrics based on understanding drivers of operations.
• Of course, this is just a sample of the kinds of work this role will require! You should assume that your role will encompass other tasks, too, and that your job duties and responsibilities may change from time to time at Etsy's discretion, or otherwise applicable with local law.

• 7+ years of experience in scaled policy enforcement, machine learning operations (ML Ops), labeling strategy, and content abuse detection in Trust and Safety, tech, or online platform sectors.
• 3+ years of team management experience and ability to mentor and develop high performing teams
• Developed problem-solving and analytical abilities with a demonstrated history of making effective operational improvements and solving tough problems.
• Technical proficiency (SQL, AI-prompting) and experience to work with a variety of partners to gather requirements, explain models and iterate to make improvements remotely and across geographies
• Excellent communication and cross-functional engagement
• Ability to influence and collaborate with different teams also in high-stakes situations

In addition to salary, you'll be eligible for an equity package, an annual performance bonus, and our competitive benefits that support you and your family. Base salary is determined by your location, skills, and experience.

Etsy uses two geographic pay zones to reflect the labor markets where we compete for talent: one called Geo-1, covering the New York City metropolitan area, San Francisco Bay Area, and Seattle…