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Lead Technical Program Manager, Trust & Safety

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📍 San Francisco, US 💰 $180K–$226K 🛠 AI tools welcome at work Lead 5–8+ yrs
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Lead Technical Program Manager for Trust & Safety at Scale AI, focused on fraud analytics and detection. Role involves analyzing behavioral data to identify fraud patterns, building detection logic, and translating insights into operational programs using AI coding tools daily.

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Job description

About the Role Scale is at the frontier of GenAI and human-AI collaboration. The Gen AI Ops Trust and Safety team is focused on safeguarding human authenticity and genuineness in AI training. We are looking for a highly analytical Technical Program Manager (TPM) who leans heavily into fraud analytics and data-driven strategy to protect our ecosystem.

This isn't a project management role. You will act as the lead investigative analyst and program owner for our fraud defense portfolio. Your day-to-day will involve diving deep into complex datasets to uncover hidden fraud vectors, and then translating those analytical insights into scalable rules, policies, and operational programs. By utilizing AI coding tools at high velocity, you will build out analytics pipelines, dashboards, and detection logic to shift Trust and Safety from a reactive function to a strategic one that balances safety and growth.

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The base salary range for this full-time position in the location of San Francisco is:
$180,800$226,000 USD

PLEASE NOTE: Our policy requires a 90-day waiting period before reconsidering candidates for the same role. This allows us to ensure a fair and thorough evaluation of all applicants.

About Us:

At Scale, our mission is to develop reliable AI systems for the world's most important decisions. Our products provide the high-quality data and full-stack technologies that power the world's leading models, and help enterprises and governments build, deploy, and oversee AI applications that deliver real impact. We work closely with industry leaders like Meta, Cisco, DLA Piper, Mayo Clinic, Time Inc., the Government of Qatar, and U.S. government agencies including the Army and Air Force. We are expanding our team to accelerate the development of AI applications.

We believe that everyone should be able to bring their whole selves to work, which is why we are proud to be an inclusive and equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability status, gender identity or Veteran status. 

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