Regional Analyst, Intelligence Desk

Job Description

YouTube's Trust and Safety team is dedicated to making YouTube a safe place for users, viewers, and content creators around the world to belong, create, and express themselves. Whether understanding and solving their online content concerns, navigating within global legal frameworks, or writing and enforcing worldwide policy, the Trust and Safety team works to enhancing the YouTube experience, building internet safety, and protecting free speech in the ever-evolving digital world.

In this role, you will be a key member of the Intel Desk's regionally focused intelligence team, charged with identifying and assessing trends in India to determine their impact on YouTube content. You will work with cross-functional teams across Trust and Safety and YouTube to get ahead of content trends, making YouTube a safer place for users.

At YouTube, we believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we listen, share, and build community through our stories. We work together to give everyone the power to share their story, explore what they love, and connect with one another in the process. Working at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and boundless creativity, we move at the speed of culture with a shared goal to show people the world. We explore new ideas, solve real problems, and have fun - and we do it all together.

Resonsibilities:
• Understand the social, political, and cultural context in India to anticipate and analyze potential YouTube content implications.
• Build knowledge in the Indian YouTube ecosystem and develop familiarity with video and channel content.
• Communicate nuanced analysis to executive management and cross-functional stakeholders in order to drive prioritization and risk mitigation decisions.
• Support operational counterparts during fast-moving and ambiguous situations to assist in the mitigation of content risk on YouTube.

Qualifications:

Minimum qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in intelligence collection and analysis in a government intelligence organization or business environment.
• Ability to communicate in English and Hindi fluently, to help implement and enforce our policies of content videos in these languages.

Preferred qualifications:
• Knowledge of Indian events; political, economic, and cultural drivers of global conflicts, and how social media impacts contentious issues.
• Knowledge of YouTube and the social media ecosystem, to include online abuse.
• Excellent collaboration, analytic, writing, and critical-thinking skills.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gq14q1-3-145-40-33-42 in your application.