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Steven Macchia

@stevenmacchia

I build global compliance and Trust & Safety programs for high-scale social video platforms.

United States
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What I'm looking for

I'm looking to lead global compliance, privacy, and Trust & Safety programs where I can build scalable moderation infrastructure, shape platform policy, and partner closely with legal, product, engineering, data, and operations teams.

At Medal, I oversee global compliance and Trust & Safety across privacy governance, GDPR, CCPA, DSA, moderation, vendor governance, and safety infrastructure for millions of user-generated videos, photos, and text entries each week. I work with legal, product, engineering, data, and operations to embed privacy, compliance, and platform safety into core systems.

I've built community standards, implementation standards, reputation systems, and moderation programs from the ground up, including work that reduced policy-violating content by 50% and a user reputation system projected to save more than $100K annually. Earlier, I led teams of up to 60 at Cognizant, partnered with NCMEC and industry safety organizations, and built communities across gaming and social platforms.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Current

MGI Head of Global Compliance and Trust & Safety

Sep 2024 - Present (1 year 11 months)

Oversee compliance operations across GDPR, CCPA, DSA, privacy governance, DPIAs, ROPA, DSARs, data retention, and vendor governance

- Manage and enhance Trust & Safety programs supporting moderation of millions of user-generated videos, photos, and text entries weekly
- Help mature moderation infrastructure, including OCR/Hive systems, risky-content detection, scanning improvements, reputation sy

ME
Current

Head of Global Compliance and Trust & Safety

Medal

Sep 2024 - Present (1 year 11 months)

Oversee compliance operations across GDPR, CCPA, DSA, privacy governance, DPIAs, ROPA, DSARs, data retention, and vendor governance. Manage and enhance Trust & Safety programs supporting moderation of millions of user-generated videos, photos, and text entries weekly.

Medal logoME
Current

Senior Program Manager Trust and Safety

Jan 2024 - Present (2 years 7 months)

- Facilitated migration of content moderation and AI scanning solutions for visual and text content, mainly in short form video
- 0 to 1 a full social platform reputation system for users to save nearly >100k annually to scale.
- Aggregates data from multiple applications and safety platforms to suggest changes to increase user retention.
-Analyze data in areas of chat, social posting, user intera

Medal logoME
Current

Program Manager, Trust and Safety

Jan 2022 - Present (4 years 7 months)

- Coordinates across multiple teams to create a safe, global platform for video game players to express themselves.
- Navigated partnerships with Safety organizations across the industry.
- Developed partnership with NCMEC to keep children safe on Medal.
- Created community and implementation standards from scratch for a global social platform.
- Analyzes user trends and data to ma

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Program Manager, Community Ops

Apr 2020 - Mar 2022 (1 year 11 months)

- Program Manager between Social Media, Trust and Safety, and Technical Support teams.
- Created and managed the Community and Social Media team for Medal.tv.
- Created and managed the Trust and Safety team for Medal.tv.
- Forged partnerships with Trust and Safety organizations to work on creating internet-wide safety standards and procedures for social platforms.
- Developed Commu

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Trust and Safety Team Lead

Nov 2017 - Apr 2020 (2 years 5 months)

- Acted as manager for three teams with up to 60 employees.
- Stayed abreast of latest community management trends on social media and streaming platforms.
- Developed a deep understanding of social media management tools and platforms.
- Worked collaboratively with a team to balance a demanding workload in a high-risk, high-volume environment focused on community interaction and engag

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Content Producer

Jul 2013 - Mar 2019 (5 years 8 months)

- Created and maintained a community on the world's largest gaming platform.
- Coordinated annual fundraising efforts for Gaming Community Expo, raising millions of dollars from hundreds of content creators over four years.
- Cultivated a community using multiple social media platforms, from Discord, Twitter, Twitch Facebook, to Instagram.
- Maintained a presence in content creation on

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Community Manager and Technical Support Representative

Jan 2016 - Jul 2017 (1 year 6 months)

• Used internal forums and external social media platforms to help grow and cultivate a community on a third party game server hosting website.
• Provide outstanding technical support for 1000's of customers on a daily basis.
• Database management using MySQL
• Provide email and ticket support using ZenDesk and Tawk.To
• Responsible for maintaining integrity of 1000's of servers
• Worksnaps and R

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

TS

The New School

Bachelor's degree, Sociology and Humanitarian Intervention

2011 - 2014

UN

UCNJ Union College of Union County, NJ

Associate's degree, Liberal Arts

2007 - 2011

Tech stack

Software and tools used professionally

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