New York , NY
|Hybrid
|Contract
New York, NY
|Hybrid
|Contract
Join a fast-moving team focused on safeguarding access to advanced AI capabilities through careful review, monitoring, and decision-making. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working with detailed policies, documenting clear rationale, and helping ensure access remains appropriate as programs evolve.
Responsibilities
- Review applications for trusted and special access programs against established criteria and document clear decision rationale
- Verify organizational identity, intended use cases, and account history during eligibility reviews
- Provision, suspend, or revoke access according to runbooks while keeping case records accurate and current
- Monitor participating organizations for policy issues, credential concerns, and activity outside approved use
- Escalate potential violations with the supporting evidence needed for review and resolution
- Handle exemption and data-handling requests that require manual assessment
- Draft customer communications and coordinate with internal account teams on approvals, violations, and access changes
- Revisit disputed or misclassified decisions by gathering context from internal sources and public information
- Identify gaps between written criteria and real-world cases and recommend updates to workflows, checklists, and tools
- Support high-volume review periods during launches and expansions, and report on queue volume, turnaround time, and outcomes
Skills
- 2+ years of experience in trust and safety, fraud, risk, compliance, KYC/KYB, or a similar operations role involving policy-based decisions
- Strong ability to apply detailed, evolving rules consistently
- Clear and concise written communication for decision notes and customer-facing messages
- Strong organizational habits and careful recordkeeping with an understanding of audit trail requirements
- Sound judgment on when to resolve a case independently and when to escalate it
- Ability to learn quickly and adapt to changing procedures and requirements
- Comfort working independently as well as partnering with policy, enforcement, engineering, and sales teams
- Genuine interest in AI safety and responsible deployment
Preferred Skills
- Background in cybersecurity such as security operations, threat intelligence, or vulnerability research
- Experience assessing whether a security use case is credible and well-supported
- Experience with business verification, due diligence, or sanctions screening
- Experience supporting enterprise or partner access programs, including onboarding and offboarding
- Familiarity with using AI tools to improve review workflows and efficiency
Horizontal is committed to building an inclusive environment where diverse perspectives are valued and respected. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply and believe equity, belonging, and accessibility are essential to great work.
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All applicants applying must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment.