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
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.
— Sarah J.
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Marketing Manager
★★★★★
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