Head of Safety (AI)

Location: New York City, NY; on-site at the NYC headquarters

Salary: $180,000–$300,000 per year, plus equity.

Company

hirify.global is a frontier lab building large action models and world models for virtual and physical environments, alongside Medal, a large gaming clips platform.

What you will do

• Own compliance across content safety, user data, and platform transparency.
• Reduce manual moderation through classifiers, automation, tooling, vendor systems, and policy design.
• Define safety metrics and build dashboards covering queue volume, review time, appeals, reversals, cost per action, and escalation latency.
• Build and evaluate detection systems using test sets, precision and recall analysis, threshold tuning, and controlled evaluations.
• Translate GDPR, the EU Digital Services Act, UK online safety legislation, and minor-protection requirements into practical product guidance.
• Lead the safety roadmap, develop the team, and advise leadership on risk exposure and safety investment.

Requirements

• Experience leading trust and safety, content policy, or product compliance at a consumer platform, ideally with user-generated content at scale.
• Track record of automating manual review through classifiers, tooling, vendor systems, or policy design.
• Comfort with SQL and enough Python to analyze data, build evaluation harnesses, and automate workflows.
• Understanding of classifiers, LLM-based review systems, vendor evaluation, and related failure modes without needing to train models.
• Ability to make cost-benefit decisions using risk, mitigation cost, and operational efficiency metrics.
• Direct leadership style and ability to challenge plans, communicate risks, and make difficult decisions with good information.

Culture & Benefits

• Lean operating model with direct access to leadership and engineering resources.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k), fertility and parental benefits, and generous paid time off.
• Daily meals, wellness, and commuter benefits at the NYC headquarters.
• Learning and development stipend.