Lead Trust & Safety product efforts for AI-adjacent features: own product risk assessment, drive launch and operational readiness, translate safety needs into product requirements, build repeatable frameworks and tooling, partner cross-functionally to define mitigations and ownership, and establish a forward-looking roadmap for detection, escalation, and reporting systems to embed safety early in product development.
Bluesky’s mission is to build an open protocol for the social internet. As Bluesky continues to grow and explore new product surfaces, Trust & Safety needs to be embedded early in product strategy, design, and launch readiness.
We’re looking for a Senior Product Manager, Trust & Safety and AI Safety to serve as the primary product partner between Trust & Safety, Product, Engineering and Legal. This person will own our product risk assessment process, lead operational readiness for AI-adjacent product work, and help ensure new features are built with safety considerations from the start.
This is a high-context, cross-functional role for someone who can move between strategy and execution: understanding emerging product risks, translating them into clear operational requirements, driving alignment across teams, and building repeatable systems that help Bluesky ship quickly and responsibly.
Responsibilities:
- Own the Product Risk Assessment process end-to-end for new feature launches, including intake, scoping, risk categorization, mitigation tracking, launch readiness, and post-launch review.
- Serve as the primary Trust & Safety liaison to Product and Engineering for new product development, ensuring safety considerations are included early in specs, roadmap conversations, and launch planning.
- Lead Trust & Safety product thinking for AI-adjacent product work, including harm framework operationalization, launch readiness, tooling needs, queue impact, escalation paths, moderator training, and communications posture.
- Build and maintain repeatable launch readiness frameworks for Trust & Safety, including checklists, templates, trackers, and feedback loops from post-launch moderation and operational observations.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Policy, Legal, Comms, and Operations to identify risks, define mitigations, and clarify ownership across complex or ambiguous product launches.
- Establish a forward-looking roadmap for Trust & Safety product needs, including internal tooling, AI safety capabilities, detection systems, queue routing, escalation infrastructure, reporting, and risk dashboards.
- Act as the Trust & Safety product counterpart in roadmap reviews, product planning rituals, spec reviews, and launch readiness checks.
- Translate operational Trust & Safety needs into product requirements that Engineering and Product can act on.
- Identify strategic opportunities where Trust & Safety systems, automation, tooling, or process improvements can compound over time.
- Help move Trust & Safety from a reactive review function to a proactive product partner embedded in how Bluesky builds.
You might be a good fit if you:
- Have experience in product management, Trust & Safety, integrity, platform safety, AI safety, risk, or a closely related field.
- Have worked on consumer products at scale, especially products with user-generated content, social interactions, recommendations, messaging, AI features, or other high-risk surfaces.
- Are strong at identifying product risks early and translating them into practical mitigations, operational requirements, and launch criteria.
- Can build systems from scratch: intake processes, risk assessment frameworks, launch readiness checklists, product requirements, trackers, and cross-functional operating rhythms.
- Are comfortable working across Product, Engineering, Policy, Legal, Comms, and Operations, and can drive clarity when ownership is ambiguous.
- Have strong product judgment and can balance user experience, safety, operational feasibility, legal exposure, and company velocity.
- Are thoughtful about AI safety and can reason about how AI-enabled features may create new forms of user harm, abuse, manipulation, operational burden, or regulatory risk.
- Communicate clearly in writing and can create crisp documentation that helps teams make decisions.
- Like working on small, fast-moving teams with high autonomy.
- Are excited to help build the safety foundations for an open social protocol.
Additional Information:
The anticipated base salary range for this position is $138,000 - $186,000 USD excluding equity. Equity will be considered in the total compensation package. Final base salary for this role will be based on the individual’s geographic location, as well as experience level, skill set, training, licenses and certifications.
We’re a fully remote team, but meaningful overlap with Pacific Time working hours is required. For this role, proximity and willingness to travel to San Francisco, Seattle, or team offsites is a plus. We offer health, dental, and vision insurance.
If you believe the social web should be open, user-controlled, and built with safety from the start, we’d love to hear from you.
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