Join Kindred as a Trust & Safety Manager to enhance risk governance and policy development in a remote-first environment.
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The Trust & Safety Manager at Kindred focuses on analyzing risk trends and developing policies to enhance marketplace integrity. This role requires strong analytical skills, particularly in data interpretation and policy enforcement, with a background in Trust & Safety or platform governance being essential. Ideal candidates will have significant experience in risk analysis and policy development, particularly within marketplace environments. The position plays a crucial role in transitioning the company's risk management approach from reactive to proactive.
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We're looking for an analytically strong Trust & Safety professional to join our established T&S team and deepen how we understand, anticipate, and govern risk across our marketplace.
You'll be the person who turns signals into insight and insight into policy: spotting trends before they become incidents, diagnosing root causes, and making sure what we learn shows up in our policies, enforcement standards, and product decisions.
This role sits at the intersection of analysis and governance. Your time will be split between two core areas: owning the policies, standards, and quality systems that keep enforcement consistent, and building the risk intelligence that tells us where those policies need to go next. You'll also partner closely on marketplace integrity work, including fraud and abuse.
If you like digging into data to find the story, then making sure that story changes how a platform operates, this role is for you.
Policy & Governance
Own Trust & Safety and integrity policies, including creation, iteration, versioning, and deprecation
Develop policy for emerging risks, informed by incident trends, regulatory developments, and industry practice
Define enforcement standards and decision frameworks that operations teams can apply consistently and confidently
Help shape and, over time, own our appeals framework as it takes form, using appeal outcomes as a signal of policy clarity and enforcement accuracy
Ensure policies are internally consistent, aligned with Terms of Service, and regularly reviewed against real-world incidents
Maintain a clear policy change log and governance process, documenting what changed, why, and how decisions were made
Co-own QA and calibration processes with Operations Enablement, and partner with them to ensure policy changes translate into training, workflows, and tooling
Risk Intelligence & Insights
Own trend analysis and regular risk reporting across incidents, reports, enforcement actions, and appeals, surfacing what's changing, why, and what to do about it
Monitor and develop member and vendor risk signals, and partner with cross-functional teams to define, validate, and refine them over time
Identify emerging harms early and size their potential impact before they scale
Lead root-cause analysis on significant incidents and recurring issues, closing the loop from finding to system change
Deliver clear, data-backed recommendations to Product, Policy, and Operations, and track whether they're adopted and effective
Translate complex risk findings into crisp narratives for leadership
Marketplace Integrity
Contribute to fraud and abuse detection through pattern and link analysis
Investigate referral and promo abuse and suspicious booking behavior
Partner with Product and Policy on mitigations that address root causes, not just individual cases
Required Experience
8+ years of experience in Trust & Safety, Risk, Integrity, Fraud, or Platform Governance
A track record of risk or trend analysis that changed product, policy, or operational decisions
Comfort working directly with data to find trends and build reporting (SQL or similar strongly preferred)
Experience owning or evolving T&S policies, enforcement standards, appeals, or QA/audit programs in a live enforcement environment
Experience with fraud, abuse, or platform misuse
Excellent written and verbal communication, including the ability to turn complex analysis into clear recommendations for executives
High judgment, comfort with ambiguity, and the ability to make principled tradeoffs
Preferred Experience
Experience in a marketplace, booking, or two-sided platform business
Hands-on experience with link analysis, network analysis, or fraud detection tooling
Experience building or co-owning QA or calibration programs for enforcement teams
Exposure to T&S regulatory environments
Trust & Safety isn't a compliance checkbox for us. It's foundational to the long-term health of our marketplace and the trust of everyone who uses it.
You'll build on a solid foundation and help move our risk understanding from reactive to anticipatory. That means making sure what we learn from every signal, incident, and appeal makes the platform safer. You'll have executive support, meaningful scope, and a direct line to the decisions that shape how we grow.
Competitive cash compensation and equity
Comprehensive health benefits
We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all applicants and employees. Kindred does not discriminate on the basis of any protected characteristic, including race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, creed, age, disability, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, medical condition, genetic information, family care or medical leave status, marital status, domestic partner status, military and veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by US federal, state or local laws, or the laws of the country or jurisdiction where you work. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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