Job Description

Senior Manager, Trust & Safety (Remote)

ezCater is the leading food for work technology company in the US, connecting anyone who needs food for their workplace to over 100,000 restaurants nationwide. For workplaces, ezCater provides flexible and scalable solutions for everything from recurring employee meals to one-off meetings, all backed by 24/7 customer service with real humans. ezCater also enables companies to manage their food spend in a single, customizable platform. For restaurant partners, ezCater helps them grow their business by bringing them more orders and new high-value customers. We're backed by top investors including Insight, Iconiq, Lightspeed, GIC, SoftBank, and Quadrille.

ezCater, the leading technology platform for Food for Work in the U.S. seeks a smart, creative, passionate and experienced Senior Manager in technology Trust & Safety to conceive and oversee activation of the next generation of ezCater's marketplace Trust Strategy, including policy development, operational standards, network health enforcement, and external positioning.

Reporting to the Director of Network Health and working closely with the Assistant General Counsel you must be highly skilled in developing close collaborative and outcome-driven partnerships across ezCater, especially with peer managers and subject matter experts within legal, operations, sales, marketing, and product teams. This is a high-visibility role requiring exceptional judgment, a "builder" mindset, and a passion for creating safe, reliable B2B ecosystems.

What You'll Do:

• Develop definitional protocols to identify trust-breaching customer experiences and to recommend optimal response strategies along with communication.
• Transform policy into action by developing SOPs, response scripts, and centralized tracking systems for the team.
• Hire, lead, and scale a Trust & Safety team tasked with policy enforcement, dispute support, and network health compliance.
• Establish processes for monitoring by type and frequency trust-breaching incidents and prepare periodic reports to leadership regarding overall state of Marketplace Trust.
• Design Trust Policies as appropriate to govern marketplace participation by Restaurant Partners and and other third parties critical to quality customer experience and develop internal training and monitoring processes to ensure compliance with policies.
• Lead and keep up to date on product feature benchmarking across relevant comparator companies and stay knowledgeable on developing marketplace Trust standards and best-in-class Trust solutions & communication strategies across both B2C and B2B ecosystems.
• Act as the internal voice for how Trust and Safety will evolve alongside AI adoption, ensuring our vision for AI maintains consumer sentiment and safety.
• Establish clear boundaries and shared standards across Sales, Marketing, Operations, and Product to ensure policy enforcement is consistent and frictionless.
• Bring or swiftly develop expertise in health and safety expectations in food and third party delivery to advise on potential relevant marketplace strategies and potential product signals or features to help establish customer Trust in quality & safety.
• Act as liaison between legal compliance functions and product team members as regulatory landscape on third party food platforms/delivery companies evolves.
• Support, as needed, Fraud and Security Teams to solution Trust-building back-end strategies and front-end requirements or UX features.
• Provide experienced, best-in-class advice on response strategies to trust-breaching events, including meeting with and helping draft communications to key Enterprise customer stakeholders or National-scale Restaurant Partner brands.
• Lead internal fact gathering, as needed, to support legal's investigation into actual or potential disputes arising from trust-breaching events or escalations, including communication with Public Health agencies where needed.
• Periodically attend and potentially participate in external Trust and Safety/Marketplace Risk Conferences and other external industry events.

What You Have :

• 10 years' relevant experience in Safety & Trust or comparable Operations, Product or Compliance function for a Technology Company, at least 3 of which must have required primary ownership of Trust and Safety program design and implementation.
• At least 5 years of experience directly hiring, managing, and developing front-line teams, specifically those tasked with high-volume escalations, disputes, and policy enforcement.
• Proven track record of attacking complex problems with a Customer-centric focus and building/launching successful solutions with measurable positive business impact.
• Strong background in designing and scaling dispute resolution and appeals processes from the ground up.
• Prior experience assessing and/or designing audit function for compliance monitoring a plus.
• Outstanding work ethic, eager to learn, attention to detail, with exceptional written and oral communication skills.
• The successful candidate will be proactive and eager to lean-in to understand ezCater's growing and diversifying business, and possess exceptional judgment, discretion, and understanding of risk management.
• Must be a self-starter in identifying knowledge gaps and zealously engaged to fill them through research across wide variety of sources.
• Strong desire to get things right and to solve problems. Ideal candidates will have practical heads for business, battle-tested judgement, high ability to be decisive during high-pressure situations, and be passionate about the company's success and all things trust and safety.
• Must have completed 4-year accredited College program, some advanced graduate study preferred, especially in a program of study related to this work.
• Ability to travel up to 5 days per quarter for Together Weeks, team gatherings and other events, when applicable.

The national total target cash compensation range for this position, including base salary and bonus target, is $145,000–$217,000 annually.*

*Please note: Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise and region & may vary from the amount above. This range does not represent additional compensation benefits (such as equity, 401K or medical, dental or vision insurance).

ezCater does not sponsor applicants for work visas or legal permanent residence.

What You'll Get from Us:

You'll get a terrifically compelling experience in an innovative, high performing environment. You'll get to work with engaged and passionate colleagues on challenging and impactful projects. You will have opportunities to grow in your career, and work in a place that values work/life harmony.

Oh, and you'll get all this: Market competitive salary, stock options that you'll help make worth a lot, 12 paid holidays, flexible PTO, 401K with ezCater match, health/dental/FSA, long-term disability insurance, mental health and family planning resources, remote-hybrid work from our awesome Boston office OR your home OR a mixture of both home and office, a tremendous amount of responsibility and autonomy, wicked awesome co-workers, employee meal program (and many more goodies) when you're in our office, and knowing that you helped transform the food for work space.

ezCater is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace humans of every background, appearance, race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, and disability status. At the same time, we do not employ jerks, even brilliant ones. Following a conditional offer of employment, ezCater may require a background check.

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