Product Designer, Trust & Safety

Instagram's Trust & Safety Design team earns the trust of a global community of 2B+ people — with particular focus on teens, parents, and creators. This is design at the intersection of product, policy, and human behavior: you're shaping how safety feels across a platform used by 500 million+ teens globally, navigating an evolving regulatory landscape that makes the work both urgent and intellectually rich.We're looking for a generalist systems thinker with a content design foundation — someone who has evolved into end-to-end product design leadership and brings that language-first sensibility to experiences where clarity, empathy, and precision are the design.This work presents unique design challenges at Meta: policy and regulation aren't blockers — they're creative material. The work you ship here sets standards that ripple across the company.
Product Designer, Trust & Safety Responsibilities:
Lead the design vision for trust and safety experiences across Instagram — setting strategic direction at the portfolio level, not just individual features
Design end-to-end product experiences for youth safety, parental controls, creator protections, and platform integrity — where clear, empathetic communication is the core UX
Translate complex regulatory, policy, and safety requirements into intuitive, human-centered experiences that work for teens, parents, and creators alike
Drive alignment and influence across Design, Product, Policy, Engineering, and Legal at senior leadership levels
Define and elevate the craft of content-informed product design — mentoring designers and establishing standards and best practices for how we communicate sensitive topics at scale
Navigate significant ambiguity and competing constraints to deliver cohesive, trustworthy experiences
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, or a related field and 8+ years of experience in product design or a related discipline
8+ years of experience building and shipping applications or software at company-level scale, leading the end-to-end experience within a large-scale, ambiguous domain
Content design background with demonstrated evolution into holistic product design (IxD + content + systems thinking)
Experience with mobile-first, consumer-social product design at scale
Experience navigating ambiguity across design, product, policy, engineering, and legal functions to deliver cohesive outcomes
Preferred Qualifications:
Ability to turn regulatory requirements into a human-centered, intuitive user experience
Experience designing in Trust & Safety, well-being, or heavily regulated/policy-constrained spaces
Strategic vision at the portfolio/program level
Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy review)
Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
Experience designing for teens/youth or family safety contexts
Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
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.
Meta is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Meta participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law. Please note that Meta may leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies in connection with applications for employment.
Meta is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at accommodations-ext@meta.com.
$250,000/year to $312,000/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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