Technical Program Manager - Child Safety (Legal)

About the role

The Technical Programs team in Meta's Security, Integrity, and Investigations organization is seeking an experienced Technical Program Manager to apply technical expertise and organizational skills in driving child safety programs. This role involves balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders and navigating the changing regulatory landscape. You will support scaling infrastructure for legal compliance and proactive response across child safety workflows, develop plans with engineering and cross-functional partners, and drive execution through influence or direct intervention.

You will evaluate, define, and lead major child safety technology initiatives with cross-functional partners to address high-severity harms involving children and compliance obligations. This includes managing and de-conflicting executive demands in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines. The role requires close collaboration with legal subject matter experts, child safety investigators, policy leads, engineering teams, and other internal partners. Familiarity with or willingness to work at the intersection of child safety, technology, legal, compliance, and government matters is essential.

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.

Requirements

• 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

• Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews).
• Familiarity with child safety reporting systems (e.g., NCMEC/CyberTipline) or similar regulatory compliance frameworks.
• 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.
• 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.
• Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies.
• Previous experience in Child Safety, Trust & Safety, Privacy, Legal, or Security related fields.
• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements).
• BS/MS in a technology-related area of study.

Pay

$160,000/year to $223,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits. Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Benefits

In addition to base compensation, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta.