Position: Abuse and Privacy Compliance Specialist (English)
Company: Yola
Category: Support
Experience required: 2y
English level: upper
Published: 2023-02-01T00:00:00+02:00

**Who we are**

Yola.com is a site-building platform with more than 13M users worldwide. Yola enables small businesses, non-profits, and everyday users to create, manage, and grow their online presence easily and with no technical knowledge. In addition to a robust, easy-to-use website builder and secure hosting services, Yola's solution offers e-commerce and marketing solutions.

Founded in 2007, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with offices in Kyiv and Lviv, Ukraine.

**About the role**

Yola is looking to hire another Abuse & Privacy Compliance Specialist. You would be responsible for enforcing Yola’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy by responding in a timely and professional manner to all Abuse, Compliance, GDPR, and CCPA complaints and requests. You would also work with support and our customers to ensure that protected information remains private and that only authorized persons receive Yola account specific assistance from the support team and that only account owners gain access to their own Yola accounts. You would work to detect and describe abuse trends and work with engineering and developers in developing mechanisms that would help Yola combat these abuses through automation and other proactive measures, keeping the support team informed in this regard when necessary. You would be expected to keep yourself up to date with new developments and requirements of applicable Cyberlaw and then work to ensure that Yola, as a whole, fully complies with the same. This could vary from country to country and state to state.

**What we expect to see in our perfect candidate?**

You should definitely have:
1. Excellent English written language skills.
2. A methodical, analytical approach to problem-solving with attention to detail.
3. The ability to make good judgment calls in varying circumstances.
4. A calm and professional yet decisive approach when dealing with abusers of our platform or with upset or threatening complainants. The ability to say “no” firmly when needed.
5. The ability to work well under pressure, and manage time effectively.
6. The ability to keep protected information confidential and to be trustworthy and reliable.
7. Some IT/Ops experience or training (recognize malware and combat or avoid it); computer literate enough so can work with developers/engineers in creating effective Abuse tools.
8. The ability to not take the complainants’ or users’ negativity and anger to heart. 
9. The ability to grasp legal concepts and apply them in specific cases.
10. The skills to adapt to a constantly changing work environment.
11. Knowledge and experience with GDPR / CCPA
 
**It would be useful if you had:**

1. Any legal experience, especially with Cyberlaw.
2. Prior experience in Online Compliance.
3. Higher education in law, economics, finance or another area relevant for compliance.

**Your responsibilities might include:**
(but will not be limited to)

1. Enforcing Yola’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy (as stated earlier).
2. Replying via email to: complaints from vendors and members of the public and law enforcement entities reporting abuse using Yola’s platform; users whose sites or accounts have been disabled; customers with GDPR or CCPA queries or demands; account or domain ownership disputes; ensuring that unauthorized people, seeking to gain access to Yola accounts or find out account-specific information which is private and protected, are not successful.
3. Ensuring that company remains up to date on all regulatory requirements.
4. Responding to subpoenas with data collection requests and set time limits.
5. Shutting down child abuse and underage porn sites and reporting these to the appropriate law enforcement authorities.
6. Proactive “search and destroy” of sites and accounts which infringe on Yola’s terms or are illegal.
7. Making yourself familiar with new developments and requirements of applicable Cyberlaw and working to ensure that Yola fully complies with the same.
8. Guiding the rest of the support team in proper procedures with respect to privacy and compliance requirements and working to ensure that these are not violated in the process of providing customer support.
9. Working with the Payments team to deal with the fraud perpetrated by abusers of our platform. 
10. Assisting in developing documentation and processes related to abuse and privacy compliance.

**What we offer**

1. The opportunity to significantly influence our product roadmap and strategy, and technologies;
2. Challenging work in the international professional environment;
3. Flexible working hours and the possibility to work remotely;
4. 20 paid vacation days per year;
5. Paid sick leave;
6. Team building events;
7. Medical insurance;
8. A cafeteria of benefits, including gym membership, mental wellbeing and workplace organizing expenses, English courses compensation (50% of sum within the limit).

Recruitment process : ⭕️ CV screen -- ⭕️ HR interview --- ⭕ Test task-- ⭕️ Final interview