This is a hybrid role based in our San Francisco or Los Angeles offices and will require you to be in the office on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
What’s so interesting about this role?
Grindr is looking for a
Safety & Compliance Manager to lead Grindr’s legal and regulatory compliance related to law enforcement requests and global online safety regulations. This role will work closely with our Legal, Customer Experience, and Government Affairs teams to manage two critical areas: responding to subpoenas, search warrants, and preservation requests; and ensuring compliance with a growing set of safety regulations, including:
- EU Digital Services Act (DSA)
- UK Online Safety Act (OSA)
- Various U.S. state laws governing dating app safety
- Australia’s Online Safety Code of Practice for Dating Apps
What’s the job?
- Own and refine compliance processes, balancing hands-on execution with strategic leadership of key initiatives while driving continuous improvement and cross-functional collaboration.
- Manage the review and response to law enforcement data requests in line with legal and privacy obligations, including providing direction to the company’s customer support team members.
- Lead, refine, and maintain internal law enforcement request protocols, documentation, and strategy.
- Ensure compliance with global safety regulations, by collaborating with Legal, Product, CX, Government Affairs, and Data teams.
- Support transparency reporting and regulatory filings.
- Engage with regulators, industry stakeholders, and other safety-related organizations, such as NCMEC and Technology Coalition, on safety and compliance matters.
What We'll Love About You
- 5+ years of experience in Trust & Safety, Legal Compliance, Law Enforcement Response, or Risk Management.
- Expertise in handling legal process requests and understanding of privacy laws.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to track user data metrics, identify trends, and generate insights for compliance reporting, including regulatory transparency obligations
- Skilled at working with data to assess compliance risks, identify the types of information required for legal and regulatory requests, and support sound decision-making.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, proven effective partnerships across legal, technical, and customer-facing teams.
- Strong interest or passion in international safety and data protection laws
- Experience at online dating companies or platform data governance is a plus.
What You'll Love About Us
- Mission and Impact: Grindr is building the global gayborhood in your pocket. Your role will impact the lives of millions of LGBTQ+ people around the world. Through our success, we are making a world where the lives of our community are free, equal, and just.
- Family Insurance: Insurance premium coverage for health, dental, and vision for you and partial coverage for your dependents.
- Retirement Savings: Generous 401K plan with 6% match and immediate vest in the U.S.
- Compensation: Industry-competitive compensation and eligibility for company bonus and equity programs.
- Queer-Inclusive Benefits: Industry-leading gender-affirming offerings with up to 90% cost coverage, access to Included Health, monthly stipends for HRT, and more.
- Additional Benefits: Flexible vacation policy, monthly stipends for cell phone, internet, wellness, food, and commuting, breakfast/lunch provided onsite, and yearly travel & leisure stipend.
About Grindr
Grindr is building the global gayborhood in your pocket. With more than 13.5 million monthly active users, Grindr has become a fundamental part of the LGBTQ+ community and is charting a path to make the world more free, equal, and just. Since 2015, Grindr for Equality has advanced safety, health, and human rights for millions of Grindr users and the global LGBTQ+ community in partnership with more than 100 community organizations in every region of the world.
Our next evolution is underway as a public company that continues to grow and build meaningful experiences for our users. From social issues to product innovations, we're setting audacious goals for our community and the business, and leveraging the latest tech stacks and a culture of engineering excellence to make it happen. At the heart of our work in this new chapter is a shared set of operating principles centered around cultivating curiosity, thinking big, setting and expediting our ambitious goals, and growing through iteration; all while keeping our users #1.
Grindr is headquartered in West Hollywood, California, with offices in the Bay Area, Chicago, and New York. With a track record of strong financial performance and plans for continued headcount growth, we’re building a team of talented, passionate, and open-minded people who want to disrupt the dating app space, innovate products, and advance LGBTQ+ culture. Come be a part of this exciting journey with us.
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