Escalation Manager

Global Response Operations (GRO) is Meta's frontline defense against threats to platform integrity, user safety, regulatory compliance, and advertiser support.

The Response teams solve essential escalations, remediate the most critical issues, and respond to urgent risks and incidents. We respond when the stakes are highest: high-priority escalations that demand speed, precision, coordination, and judgement. We work closely with our partners to fix gaps in our platforms.

Our mandate is to manage complex and novel situations that require special care across Meta's family of apps, all surfaces and domains, all issue types and all user groups. We are transitioning to an agentic operating model where AI handles routine work and human experts focus on the cases, decisions, and system improvements that require judgment, creativity, and domain depth. You will own Meta's most complex, sensitive, and time-critical escalations, where AI reaches its limits and expert human judgment determines the outcome.

Working across all Meta surfaces, products, and issue types, you'll investigate and resolve high-stakes situations spanning civic concerns, entertainment events, advertiser integrity, regulatory risk, and AI product failures. You'll serve as a domain expert and workflow contributor by designing how humans and AI work together, critically evaluating AI outputs, encoding your expertise into systems that scale, and supporting others to do the same. You'll lead or contribute to pods that drive measurable operational improvement.

This role is for people who navigate ambiguous situations by defining structure, identifying key decisions, and driving toward resolution, prioritize effectively across competing demands, and see AI as a force multiplier for better outcomes.

Responsibilities

Response & Crisis Management
Drive Meta's highest-priority escalations to resolution: from initial triage through investigation, cross-functional coordination, and final resolution, ensuring that time-sensitive cases are mitigated within SLA and with minimal business or reputational impact
Conduct rigorous, multi-system investigations: connect signals across surfaces and stakeholders on complex or novel case types, producing root cause analysis and documentation that prevents recurrence
Coordinate across Policy, Legal, Engineering, Sales, Communications, Leadership, and other XFN: drive aligned response strategies on cases carrying reputational, legal, or business risk, translating complexity into clear decisions and accountable next steps
Synthesize and deliver executive-level communications: leverage AI to ensure accurate, actionable situational awareness reaches leadership and partners when it matters
Exercise judgment on unprecedented situations: make high-stakes calls and set a precedent for continuous improvement
Work on-call shifts within a global team: maintain 24/7 readiness and operate effectively across time zones, delivering consistent quality and decision-making across shifting priorities and time-sensitive situations
Human + AI Orchestration
Contribute to workflow performance in your domain: support end-to-end quality across HITL and HOTL deployments, identifying when intervention is needed and flagging issues that affect automated outputs
Translate expert human judgment into encodable logic: convert tacit domain knowledge (policy interpretation, contextual reasoning, edge case intuition) into explicit rules, prompts, and decision frameworks that AI systems can execute
Lead or contribute to sprints and pods that transform operations: drive measurable improvements in efficiency, effectiveness, and performance outcomes
Design and iterate on AI-assisted workflows (prompts, decision trees, runbooks, automations): increase team throughput, measured by reduced handling time, enhanced outcomes, or eliminating manual steps for recurring case patterns
Support peer development on judgment, AI tool mastery, and escalation calibration: share expertise through case reviews and real-time modeling, contributing to the team's collective capability
Domain Expertise & Signal Generation
Develop and maintain deep domain expertise: stay current on evolving threats, platform dynamics, and policy or legal landscape to inform rapid decision-making
Surface emerging patterns, systemic issues, and root cause hypotheses: translate operational observations into strategic signals that drive action upstream
Document investigation methodologies and resolution approaches for novel case types: building institutional knowledge that scales beyond individual expertise
Contribute to demand signal and operational improvement: identify volume drivers, capability gaps, and process inefficiencies that inform roadmap priorities
New Frontier Accountabilities
Own investigation and resolution of escalations involving Meta's AI products, including LLM outputs, AI agents, and AI-generated content
Partner with XFN teams on AI-specific escalation protocols and intervention capabilities: shape how the company detects and responds to AI-driven incidents
Participate in AI red-teaming and stress testing exercises: build intuition for AI failure cases and contribute findings that strengthen guardrails
Important Notes
Disturbing content: This role requires a review of content, issues, and matters that can be offensive or disturbing, including but not limited to graphic violence, self-harm, hate speech, abuse, and sexually explicit material. Meta provides resources and support for employees who work with sensitive content
On call: This role will require regular scheduled weekend and holiday oncall work, and some non-scheduled crisis intervention
Pace: The work is interrupt-driven. You'll balance proactive improvement work with reactive escalation response, and the escalations take priority
AI Forward: This team actively uses AI tools in its daily operations. You're expected to push the boundary of what AI can handle and know where human judgment must intervene

Qualifications

5+ years of experience in escalation management, trust and safety, crisis response, investigations, regulatory compliance, policy, or a related operational field
Demonstrated ability to manage and resolve high-pressure, time-sensitive situations with sound judgment and minimal supervision
Active, daily proficiency with AI tools — including prompt engineering, AI-assisted investigation, and workflow automation — with the ability to critically evaluate and override AI outputs
Experience synthesizing large volumes of qualitative and quantitative information into actionable insights to inform operational decisions
Clear, structured written communication — able to produce executive-level briefs, case reports, and stakeholder updates (leveraging AI for drafting where appropriate)
Experience building effective relationships and collaborating across teams with technical and non-technical partners
Experience identifying process inefficiencies or capability gaps and designing solutions that improved operational outcomes
Ability to build alignment and collaborate effectively to move work forward across teams Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
Familiarity with Meta's products, policies, and enforcement systems
Background in one or more of: content integrity, intellectual property, regulatory frameworks, advertiser policy, or civic/political escalations
Experience in adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy review)
Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
Experience in leading or mentoring others; ability to drive pod-level accountability for outcomes
Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies