Trust & Safety Consultant

Job title – Trust & Safety Consultant

Practice: Software & Platforms, Industry Consulting

Management Level: 9 – Consultant

Location: Gurgaon / Bangalore / Hyderabad / Mumbai / Pune

Years of Experience: 3–6 years

Job Summary

We are looking for a consultant with hands-on experience in Trust & Safety (T&S) to join our practice. In this role, you will work with clients to assess, design, and improve their T&S strategy and operations spanning content moderation, policy enforcement, risk workflows, and operating models. A key part of this role is helping clients understand and integrate AI-driven tools and approaches into their T&S functions.

This is a functional consulting role. You will be embedded in client engagements, working across stakeholders to deliver practical recommendations and drive implementation.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Lead T&S consulting engagements across industries assessing current-state operations and identifying gaps in workflows, tooling, governance, and policy enforcement

• Shape T&S strategy for clients by evaluating their current operating models, identifying structural gaps, and defining a clear path to a mature, scalable Trust & Safety function

• Advise senior client stakeholders on how to build and govern T&S operations that balance platform integrity, user experience, and regulatory compliance

• Drive the integration of AI into client T&S strategies by identifying where automation and AI-assisted decision-making can reduce risk, improve consistency, and enable scale

• Own Trust & Safety deliverables across the AI lifecycle, including model evaluation, risk assessment, monitoring frameworks, and post-training performance analysis

• Design target-state operating models including role structures, escalation paths, quality frameworks, and implementation roadmaps aligned to client capacity

• Translate evolving regulatory requirements and industry best practices into actionable insights and recommendations to strengthen client policy and enforcement framework

• Create proposals, facilitate workshops and working sessions and communicate findings clearly to both operational and executive audiences

• Collaborate across cross-functional teams like delivery, quality, training, business transformation and industry experts to shape and deliver client-oriented solutions and contribute to practice assets and thought leadership

Must-have Skills

• 3-6 years of experience in Trust & Safety, content moderation, platform integrity, or a closely related field (in-house, vendor providers or consulting)

• Strong understanding of T&S operations including moderation workflows, policy enforcement, escalation management, and quality assurance

• Familiarity with AI/ML applications in T&S such as automated classifiers, risk models, or human-in-the-loop systems at a functional level

• Knowledge of the AI model lifecycle from pre-training and post-training through evaluation and monitoring with the ability to assess model behaviour and identify risks relevant to T&S operations   

• Experience designing or improving operating models, organization structures, or process workflows

• Ability to synthesize complex operational information into clear findings and recommendations

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with comfort working across cross-functional teams and presenting to senior leadership

• Consulting mindset with structured thinking, comfort with ambiguity, and ability to manage multiple workstreams

Good-to-have Skills

• Prior experience in a management consulting or advisory role

• Exposure to AI governance, responsible AI principles in the context of T&S

• Knowledge of regulatory and compliance considerations around online safety (e.g., DSA, Online Safety Act, NetzDG, etc)

• Experience working with global T&S teams and an understanding of cultural nuances in content moderation

• Background in building or evaluating T&S metrics dashboards and reporting frameworks

• Exposure to change management or training design for T&S operations teams

Additional Information

• This role offers exposure to high-impact engagements with leading global technology, platform and software clients.

• Travel may be required based on client engagements.

• Hybrid work model with flexibility based on project needs.

• Opportunity to shape the firm’s customer-growth and AI-led service offerings and thought leadership.

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Priority Skill

Trust & Safety

Experience: Minimum 3-6 years of professional experience, with at least 2 years focused on AI enabled T&S strategy and operations, operating and governance models, policy enforcement and quality assurance frameworks

Educational Qualification: MBA from a Tier-1 B-School (preferred).

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