--- title: 'Senior Product Manager, Trust and Safety - AI Safety at Bluesky' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-product-manager-trust-and-safety-ai-safety-bluesky-remote-sjc615rtx41v' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-12' --- # Senior Product Manager, Trust and Safety - AI Safety at Bluesky - **Company:** Bluesky - **Location:** Remote - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-06-23 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12 - **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9icG9zdDos394IipnK5-xWx66eQKFx ## Job description Bluesky’s mission is to build an open protocol for the social internet. As Bluesky continues to grow and explore new product surfaces, Trust & Safety needs to be embedded early in product strategy, design, and launch readiness. We’re looking for a Senior Product Manager, Trust & Safety and AI Safety to serve as the primary product partner between Trust & Safety, Product, Engineering and Legal. This person will own our product risk assessment process, lead operational readiness for AI-adjacent product work, and help ensure new features are built with safety considerations from the start. This is a high-context, cross-functional role for someone who can move between strategy and execution: understanding emerging product risks, translating them into clear operational requirements, driving alignment across teams, and building repeatable systems that help Bluesky ship quickly and responsibly. Responsibilities: - Own the Product Risk Assessment process end-to-end for new feature launches, including intake, scoping, risk categorization, mitigation tracking, launch readiness, and post-launch review. - Serve as the primary Trust & Safety liaison to Product and Engineering for new product development, ensuring safety considerations are included early in specs, roadmap conversations, and launch planning. - Lead Trust & Safety product thinking for AI-adjacent product work, including harm framework operationalization, launch readiness, tooling needs, queue impact, escalation paths, moderator training, and communications posture. - Build and maintain repeatable launch readiness frameworks for Trust & Safety, including checklists, templates, trackers, and feedback loops from post-launch moderation and operational observations. - Partner with Product, Engineering, Policy, Legal, Comms, and Operations to identify risks, define mitigations, and clarify ownership across complex or ambiguous product launches. - Establish a forward-looking roadmap for Trust & Safety product needs, including internal tooling, AI safety capabilities, detection systems, queue routing, escalation infrastructure, reporting, and risk dashboards. - Act as the Trust & Safety product counterpart in roadmap reviews, product planning rituals, spec reviews, and launch readiness checks. - Translate operational Trust & Safety needs into product requirements that Engineering and Product can act on. - Identify strategic opportunities where Trust & Safety systems, automation, tooling, or process improvements can compound over time. - Help move Trust & Safety from a reactive review function to a proactive product partner embedded in how Bluesky builds. You might be a good fit if you: - Have experience in product management, Trust & Safety, integrity, platform safety, AI safety, risk, or a closely related field. - Have worked on consumer products at scale, especially products with user-generated content, social interactions, recommendations, messaging, AI features, or other high-risk surfaces. - Are strong at identifying product risks early and translating them into practical mitigations, operational requirements, and launch criteria. - Can build systems from scratch: intake processes, risk assessment frameworks, launch readiness checklists, product requirements, trackers, and cross-functional operating rhythms. - Are comfortable working across Product, Engineering, Policy, Legal, Comms, and Operations, and can drive clarity when ownership is ambiguous. - Have strong product judgment and can balance user experience, safety, operational feasibility, legal exposure, and company velocity. - Are thoughtful about AI safety and can reason about how AI-enabled features may create new forms of user harm, abuse, manipulation, operational burden, or regulatory risk. - Communicate clearly in writing and can create crisp documentation that helps teams make decisions. - Like working on small, fast-moving teams with high autonomy. - Are excited to help build the safety foundations for an open social protocol. Additional Information: The anticipated base salary range for this position is $138,000 - $186,000 USD excluding equity. Equity will be considered in the total compensation package. Final base salary for this role will be based on the individual’s geographic location, as well as experience level, skill set, training, licenses and certifications. We’re a fully remote team, but meaningful overlap with Pacific Time working hours is required. For this role, proximity and willingness to travel to San Francisco, Seattle, or team offsites is a plus. We offer health, dental, and vision insurance. If you believe the social web should be open, user-controlled, and built with safety from the start, we’d love to hear from you. ## About Bluesky ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Bluesky is building an open, decentralized social networking protocol and a flagship app that gives users control over their experience, algorithm, and data. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series B) - **Headquarters**: Remote (HQ), with an office in Seattle, Washington, United States - **Founded**: 2021 - **Founders**: Jay Graber (CEO & Founder) ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Social Media, Decentralized Protocols, Open Source Software - **Target customers**: B2C (end-users seeking an alternative social network), B2D (developers building on the AT Protocol), and enterprise/creator accounts (via domain-based identity and public APIs) - **Mission or purpose statement**: “To develop and drive large-scale adoption of technologies for open and decentralized public conversation.” ## Products & Services - **[Bluesky App]**: The primary consumer-facing social network built on the AT Protocol. Features include composable moderation (block/mute lists, labeling services), algorithmic choice (custom feeds), and account portability. Available on iOS, Android, and Web. - **[AT Protocol]**: An open-source, federated protocol for building social apps. It provides standard formats for user identity, follows, and data, allowing apps to interoperate and users to move between services without losing their identity or connections. - **[Attie (AI Research Tool)]**: An integrated tool that helps users make sense of the “Atmosphere” (Bluesky’s network). Features include surfacing trending topics, finding influential accounts, and generating personalized daily briefings. Recently added “Quests” for interactive research. - **[Public APIs and Developer Ecosystem]**: Developers can use Bluesky’s public APIs to build bots, clients, custom feeds, and more, leveraging the open ecosystem without being locked in. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (conflicting reports; some estimates suggest a post-Series B valuation in the hundreds of millions, but no official figure) - **Key Metric**: **Total Funding: $149M** (as of 2025) | **Annual Revenue: ~$1.2M** (estimated, via LinkedIn) | **Users: Over 44 million** (as of May 2026) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Bain Capital Crypto (led Series B), Blockchain Capital (led Series A), Neo (seed), Jack Dorsey (initial seed), Alumni Ventures, Anthos Capital, Bloomberg Beta, Knight Foundation, True Ventures. - **Growth Signals**: - Rapid user growth from ~5M in late 2023 to 44M+ by mid-2026. - Expanded from a single app to a full developer ecosystem with 40,000+ custom feeds. - Strong brand as the “anti-X” platform, attracting users from X/Twitter, Threads, and Mastodon. - Recent launch of Attie with Quests shows continued product innovation. ## Competitive Advantages - **Protocol-first approach**: Unlike centralized competitors (X, Threads), Bluesky is built on the AT Protocol, meaning the network cannot be bought or controlled by a single entity. This provides a unique value proposition for privacy-conscious users and creators. - **Account portability**: Users can change hosting providers without losing their username, friends, or posts—a significant differentiator vs. Mastodon and other federated networks. - **Composable moderation**: Moderation is layered (automated, manual, and community labeling), allowing communities to self-organize around their own moderation preferences, unlike the top-down approach of centralized platforms. - **Algorithmic choice**: Users can choose from thousands of custom feeds (or build their own), giving them control over their timeline rather than being subject to a single corporate algorithm. ## Strategic Focus - **Scaling the protocol and developer ecosystem**: The company is focused on making the AT Protocol the standard for open social networking, attracting developers to build apps, bots, and moderation services on top of it. - **Monetization without ads**: Bluesky has stated it will not sell user data or run traditional ads. It is exploring subscription models (e.g., premium features for creators) and developer services as revenue streams. - **International growth**: With users in 12+ countries, the company is investing in localization, moderation tools for different languages, and partnerships to expand globally. - **Governance as a PBC**: As a Public Benefit Corporation, Bluesky is committed to public good and transparent governance, with a board that includes open-source advocates and a stated mission to avoid being “bought by a single individual or organization.” ## Why Work Here - **Remote-first culture**: The company is fully remote but expects some overlap with Pacific Time (PST). Employees are distributed across 12+ countries, including the US, Philippines, Japan, UK, and Germany. - **Small, nimble team**: With ~42 employees, new hires can have significant impact on core product and protocol decisions. The engineering team is ~15 people. - **Open-source ethos**: Engineers work on open-source code (AT Protocol, app clients, moderation tools) that is visible to the public. This is a strong draw for developers who value transparency and community contribution. - **Mission-driven**: Employees are building a social network that is designed to be resilient to corporate takeover and censorship, which resonates with many candidates. - **Notable perks**: While not detailed publicly, the company offers the flexibility of remote work, equity in a rapidly growing startup, and the opportunity to shape the future of decentralized social media. - **Recent leadership**: Jay Graber (CEO/Innovation Officer), Paul Frazee (CTO), Rose Wang (COO) are hands-on leaders with deep backgrounds in decentralized tech and product development. ## Sources 1. [Bluesky About Page](https://bsky.social/about/) 2. [Bluesky FAQ](https://bsky.social/about/faq) 3. [Bluesky Jobs (Gem)](https://jobs.gem.com/bluesky) 4. 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