Trust and Safety Lead
United StatesBusiness OperationsRemote
Summary
Build and scale OpenRouter's Trust & Safety function from 0→1, defining policy, enforcement systems, and operations for AI API usage, sanctions compliance, and abuse prevention.
About the role
Responsibilities
Policy & Enforcement
- Define policies across accounts, payments, and API usage
- Ensure compliance with sanctions and regulatory requirements
- Translate provider policies into platform-level enforcement
- Design enforcement actions and appeals
Systems & Risk
- Build a risk-based system driven by aggregated signals
- Develop unified risk scoring and tiered enforcement
- Partner with engineering on sanctions controls, identity validation, and enforcement systems
- Introduce ML-assisted detection for fraud and abuse
Operations (0 → 1)
- Handle investigations, enforcement decisions, and appeals
- Build workflows while operating them
- Use AI for triage and decision support
- Turn operational learnings into scalable systems
Provider & Enterprise
- Partner with model providers on policy alignment and escalations
- Define enterprise controls (allowlists, policies, auditability)
- Coordinate across engineering, legal, and go-to-market
Scale
- Build and scale the function across policy, systems, and operations
- Establish monitoring, escalation frameworks, and KPIs
Qualifications
- Experience building or scaling trust & safety, risk, or compliance systems
- Strong understanding of sanctions, fraud, and enforcement systems
- Experience working cross-functionally with engineering, legal, and operations
- Ability to design and operate data-driven systems
- Builder mindset with comfort in 0 → 1 and ambiguous environments
Skills
Trust & SafetyRisk ManagementComplianceSanctions ComplianceFraud DetectionPolicy DevelopmentRisk ScoringML DetectionCross-functional CollaborationData-driven Systems