Policy Manager, Product and Platform Integrity
Product
California, USA
USD 86k-141k / year + Equity
Posted on Aug 7, 2025
Company Description
LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We’re also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that’s built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed.
Join us to transform the way the world works.
Job Description
At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team.
This role is preferred to be based in our Bay Area office locations (San Francisco or Mountain View), New York City, or Washington D.C.
As a Policy Manager, you will play a critical role in shaping and enforcing the policies that keep LinkedIn safe, trusted, and professional. Content Policy Managers play a key role in scoping, prioritizing and executing various projects and initiatives, ranging from policy development and implementation, stakeholder training and awareness, and managing critical internal and external partnerships. In this role, you’ll work across a wide range of technical and non-technical projects that support LinkedIn’s trust principles and overall platform integrity.
Responsibilities:
Basic Qualifications:
The pay range for this role is $86,000 - $141,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.
The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For more information, visit https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits.
Additional Information
Equal Opportunity Statement
We seek candidates with a wide range of perspectives and backgrounds and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. LinkedIn considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.
LinkedIn is committed to offering an inclusive and accessible experience for all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. Our goal is to foster an inclusive and accessible workplace where everyone has the opportunity to be successful.
If you need a reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening, apply for a position, or participate in the interview process, connect with us at accommodations@linkedin.com and describe the specific accommodation requested for a disability-related limitation.
Reasonable accommodations are modifications or adjustments to the application or hiring process that would enable you to fully participate in that process. Examples of reasonable accommodations include but are not limited to:
LinkedIn will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by LinkedIn, or (c) consistent with LinkedIn's legal duty to furnish information.
San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, LinkedIn will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Pay Transparency Policy Statement
As a federal contractor, LinkedIn follows the Pay Transparency and non-discrimination provisions described at this link: https://lnkd.in/paytransparency.
Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates
Please follow this link to access the document that provides transparency around the way in which LinkedIn handles personal data of employees and job applicants: https://legal.linkedin.com/candidate-portal.
LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We’re also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that’s built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed.
Join us to transform the way the world works.
Job Description
At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team.
This role is preferred to be based in our Bay Area office locations (San Francisco or Mountain View), New York City, or Washington D.C.
As a Policy Manager, you will play a critical role in shaping and enforcing the policies that keep LinkedIn safe, trusted, and professional. Content Policy Managers play a key role in scoping, prioritizing and executing various projects and initiatives, ranging from policy development and implementation, stakeholder training and awareness, and managing critical internal and external partnerships. In this role, you’ll work across a wide range of technical and non-technical projects that support LinkedIn’s trust principles and overall platform integrity.
Responsibilities:
- Research, build and communicate global policies that impact broad-reaching issues of safety and expression across LinkedIn’s products and advertisements.
- Critically analyze inputs from internal and external partners to establish long-term content and product policy stances, standards, and strategies.
- Autonomously manage multiple complex policy projects across all stages of the development and implementation lifecycle.
- Respond to escalations and use escalation trends to inform urgent policy guidance and communication needs.
- Craft and communicate effective data-driven stories and updates to senior leadership in order to influence decisions and outcomes.
- Work collaboratively with business and technical stakeholders to identify optimal solutions based on a variety of criteria (cost, level of effort, complexity, timing, etc.).
- Provide updates on the status and overall health of regional and global workstreams to stakeholders and management on a regular basis.
Basic Qualifications:
- 5+ years of work experience in policy writing, product risk management, policy operations, or digital trust & safety
- BA/BS degree in a related discipline, or equivalent work experience
- A clear and thoughtful communicator, both in writing and in person, who can distill complex ideas and engage diverse audiences.
- Technology industry experience, with emphasis on experience in addressing complex systematic and emerging risks and issues.
- A background in training or instructional design is a strong plus, especially if you enjoy creating clarity and connection through education.
- Skilled at building relationships, credibility, and rapport across teams, and comfortable working collaboratively with both technical and non-technical partners.
- Strong analytical skills and a problem-solving mindset, with a curiosity to dig into issues and uncover meaningful solutions.
- Comfortable navigating business and technical conversations, and able to translate between the two when needed.
- Ability to influence and negotiate prioritization of product changes.
- Organized and detail-oriented, with the ability to juggle multiple ongoing projects while staying detail oriented.
- Ability to adapt to changing business and technical conditions.
- Familiar with using metrics and data to inform decision-making, and open to learning more if not already fluent.
- Ability to develop working knowledge of technical aspects of systems, including configuration, settings, logging, and permissions.
- Policy writing
- Policy analysis
- Operational risk management
- Online safety
The pay range for this role is $86,000 - $141,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.
The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For more information, visit https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits.
Additional Information
Equal Opportunity Statement
We seek candidates with a wide range of perspectives and backgrounds and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. LinkedIn considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.
LinkedIn is committed to offering an inclusive and accessible experience for all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. Our goal is to foster an inclusive and accessible workplace where everyone has the opportunity to be successful.
If you need a reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening, apply for a position, or participate in the interview process, connect with us at accommodations@linkedin.com and describe the specific accommodation requested for a disability-related limitation.
Reasonable accommodations are modifications or adjustments to the application or hiring process that would enable you to fully participate in that process. Examples of reasonable accommodations include but are not limited to:
- Documents in alternate formats or read aloud to you
- Having interviews in an accessible location
- Being accompanied by a service dog
- Having a sign language interpreter present for the interview
LinkedIn will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by LinkedIn, or (c) consistent with LinkedIn's legal duty to furnish information.
San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, LinkedIn will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Pay Transparency Policy Statement
As a federal contractor, LinkedIn follows the Pay Transparency and non-discrimination provisions described at this link: https://lnkd.in/paytransparency.
Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates
Please follow this link to access the document that provides transparency around the way in which LinkedIn handles personal data of employees and job applicants: https://legal.linkedin.com/candidate-portal.