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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