Safety Specialist II, Spam
Job Summary
The Spam Safety Specialist role at Pinterest involves creating and supporting enforcement guidelines to combat spam, managing outsourced vendor teams, and ensuring compliance with policies. It requires over 5 years of experience in enforcement or spam-related roles within the tech industry, with strong operational, communication, and critical thinking skills. The position emphasizes collaboration with various teams to improve spam mitigation strategies and workflows. Benefits include a focus on diversity, inclusion, flexible work arrangements, and career growth opportunities.
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About Pinterest:
Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product.
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We are hiring for a Spam Safety Specialist to join our Account Operations, Enforcement Ops Team based in the US. This role will have a direct impact on supporting Pinterest’s growth by creating scalable enforcement guidelines for new account spam policies, while also protecting Pinners by ensuring accurate and effective vendor enforcement. In addition to the outsourced vendor teams, you’ll work closely with the other Account Ops team members, the Policy Team, our Quality, Training and Vendor Management teams and be in close collaboration with other Trust & Safety colleagues such as our Product and Optimization partners. This role is an exciting opportunity to work with a mix of stakeholders while being involved in quickly expanding spam space.
What you’ll do:
- Create new and support our existing Spam enforcement guidelines based on policy guidance.
- Oversee outsourcing of Spam enforcement guidelines with multiple vendor teams, liaising with Training, Quality and Vendor Management for timely launches with high accuracy reviews.
- Manage operational workflows and processes to ensure prevention of Spam violations.
- Act as a point of contact for cross functional partners for policy/enforcement inquiries.
- Be accountable for BPO KPIs such as quality scores and turnaround times for Spam workflows, providing insights and clarifications to mitigate quality gaps with both vendors and internal teams.
- Write and/or update internal and external enforcement documentation, including status updates, comm docs, FAQs, etc.
- Collaborate with internal partners to influence Spam account harm mitigation at an automation and product level.
- Provide recommendations for risk mitigation based on inbound escalations.
- Oversee Spam onboarding and offboarding processes with XFNs.
What we’re looking for:
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years experience in the tech industry working in the enforcement / Spam space.
- Demonstrated strong experience in an operational and/or support role.
- Experience working with outsourcing teams / scaled support.
- A customer-focused individual who shows inquisitiveness: you put Pinners and Partners first and propose solutions that provide a safer experience for both.
- Strong critical thinking skills and the ability to evaluate issues objectively.
- Demonstrated experience working on multiple projects simultaneously; remains focused and productive .
- A strong communicator that can confidently present learnings and influence stakeholders using data-driven solutions.
In-Office Requirement Statement:
- We let the type of work you do guide the collaboration style. That means we're not always working in an office, but we continue to gather for key moments of collaboration and connection.
- This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times every 6-months and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country.
Relocation Statement:
- This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.
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At Pinterest we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position. The position is also eligible for equity. Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise.
Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.
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