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Playlab

Trust & Safety Lead, Education

Playlab

. Own safety on Playlab’s platform, focusing on children and young adults .

Posted 11/12/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesSenior💰 $150,000 - $180,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in trust and safety operations, including designing automated problem-detection systems and writing safety policies. Strong ability to communicate effectively with diverse stakeholders and manage high-stakes incidents involving young people.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Trust & Safety OperationsAutomated Problem-Detection SystemsSafety Policy WritingIncident Response ManagementCommunication with School Leaders

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Hard Skills
Incident TriageLabeling Guidelines DesignFilter Requirements SpecificationSafety Risk AssessmentData Privacy Compliance
Soft Skills
Strong Judgment Under PressureClear Decision ExplanationPassion for Student Wellbeing
Tools & Technologies
DashboardsTraining MaterialsIncident-Reporting Processes
Industry Keywords
FERPACOPPACSAM ReportingAdversarial TestingEdtech Experience

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Own safety on Playlab’s platform, focusing on children and young adults
  • Make decisions on live incidents, moderation escalations, and safety policy
  • Design systems that automatically detect problems and determine when human judgment is needed
  • Review flagged content, investigate missed misuse, and stress-test features before and after launch
  • Build a community of internal and partner testers
  • Define a Playlab-specific harm taxonomy and labeling guidelines
  • Create labeled datasets for engineering detection and testing
  • Specify filter, rule, and signal requirements and evaluate system performance
  • Track automated detection, false positives, and time-to-detection
  • Lead incident response from triage and investigation through action, school communication, required reporting, and post-incident review
  • Establish urgent intake and escalation paths with Support
  • Write and maintain safety and moderation policies
  • Review safety risks for new features before launch
  • Work with school and district leaders on safety concerns
  • Build incident-reporting processes, training, and resources for learning partners
  • Translate incident and review trends into product-roadmap input
  • Track incident volume, response times, policy coverage, and trends; report to leadership
  • Report to the CTO and collaborate with product, engineering, learning engineering, partnerships, responsible AI, privacy, and security teams

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 5+ years in trust & safety
  • Real-time experience as the decision-maker on high-stakes escalations
  • Experience handling safety work involving young people, including disclosures of self-harm or abuse, inappropriate contact, CSAM reporting, or similar
  • Experience designing automated problem-detection systems, including labeling guidelines, filter requirements, and effectiveness checks
  • Experience building trust & safety operations such as intake forms, triage rubrics, runbooks, training materials, and dashboards
  • Ability to write principled and practical safety policies
  • Strong judgment under pressure and ability to explain decisions clearly
  • Strong communication with school leaders, engineers, and learning partners, including asynchronously and remotely
  • Passion for student wellbeing, equity, access, and safe AI in education
  • Bonus: hands-on generative AI failure testing
  • Bonus: AI red teaming, evaluations, or adversarial testing experience
  • Bonus: proactive investigations or abuse hunting experience
  • Bonus: user-generated content or creator-tool platform experience
  • Bonus: familiarity with FERPA, COPPA, state student data privacy laws, and mandated reporting
  • Bonus: classroom, school leadership, counseling, or edtech experience
  • Bonus: experience building trust & safety operations from scratch at a startup or nonprofit

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Healthcare covered 100% for you and 80% for dependents
  • Dental/vision covered 100% for you and dependents
  • Retirement
  • Life/AD&D
  • Monthly wellness stipend
  • Home office budget
  • New laptop
  • Generous time off
  • Opportunities for professional growth
  • Flexible remote-first work with autonomy and collaboration