Legal Technical Program Manager - Child Safety

Meta • Full-time • Los Angeles, California, United States • $160k - $223k / year • 6h ago

The Technical Programs team in Meta's Security, Integrity, and Investigations organization is looking for an experienced Technical Program Manager who has experience applying technical expertise and organizational skills to drive execution of child safety programs — balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders and the changing regulatory landscape. This position supports scaling infrastructure that enables legal compliance and proactive response across child safety workflows, developing plans with engineering & cross-functional partners, and driving execution through influence or direct intervention. You will be responsible for evaluating, defining, and leading major child safety technology initiatives with cross-functional partners to address high-severity harms involving children and compliance obligations. You will manage and de-conflict executive demands in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines. This work will be accomplished by working closely with legal SMEs, child safety investigators, policy leads, engineering teams, teammates, and cross-functional internal partners. The candidate should have familiarity with or be willing to work on the intersection of child safety, technology, legal, compliance, and government matters. This is a full-time position.

Legal Technical Program Manager - Child Safety Responsibilities

Scope problems with a cross-organization view and translate complex technical details into simple communications, serving as the connective thread across teams to drive alignment and cohesion within child safety programs
Define technical program strategy, build plans with technical dependencies, and balance trade-offs to deliver desired outcomes in support of the holistic child safety program vision
Drive end-to-end execution and delivery of child safety technical programs from ideation, technical/data analysis, system design, development, testing, implementation, and post-implementation
Drive cross-organization dependencies and alignment, collaborate on success criteria and metrics, and communicate program status with stakeholders across legal, policy, operations, and engineering
Proactively identify risks and issues across child safety systems, work hands-on, and partner across organizations, levels, and skill sets to mitigate and solve those
Drive adoption of technologies across disparate components of the child safety infrastructure stack, thinking through how to advance current technology and scale for emerging obligations
Build consensus around roadmaps and evaluate success by managing execution through tough tactical prioritization decisions while supporting the organization's long-term strategy
Collaborate across teams and peers of all levels — from front-line analysts and investigators to senior executives — in a critical safety environment that deals with high-severity harm involving children

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline)
8+ years of technical program management or product management experience
Experience leading complex cross-functional teams that focus on user safety, child safety, or high-risk harm programs
Experience operating autonomously across a broad problem space, demonstrating critical thinking and thought leadership
Communication experience and experience working with technical management teams to develop systems, solutions, and products
Analytical and problem-solving experience with large-scale systems
Experience establishing work relationships across multi-disciplinary teams and multiple partners in different time zones

Preferred Qualifications

Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
Knowledge of user needs, gathering requirements, and defining scope in a compliance-driven environment
Experience weighing business requirements and priorities to produce project plans, engineering estimates, and product roadmaps
BS/MS in a technology related area of study
Experience delivering technical programs or products from inception to delivery
Experience working within ecosystems that address high-severity harms with operational, legal, and policy partners
Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
Previous experience in Child Safety, Trust & Safety, Privacy, Legal, or Security related fields
Familiarity with child safety reporting systems (e.g., NCMEC/CyberTipline) or similar regulatory compliance frameworks

About Meta

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics. For those who live in or expect to work from California if hired for this position, please click here for additional information.

United States of America: $160,000/year to $223,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate, monthly rate, or annual salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base compensation, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta.

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