How to hire a product safety manager

How to hire a product safety manager, step by step

Here's a step-by-step product safety manager hiring guide:

• Step 1: Identify your hiring needs
• Step 2: Create an ideal candidate profile
• Step 3: Make a budget
• Step 4: Write a product safety manager job description
• Step 5: Post your job
• Step 6: Interview candidates
• Step 7: Send a job offer and onboard your new product safety manager
• Step 8: Go through the hiring process checklist

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1. Identify your hiring needs

   Before you post your product safety manager job, you should take the time to determine what type of worker your business needs. While certain jobs definitely require a full-time employee, it's sometimes better to find a product safety manager for hire on a part-time basis or as a contractor.

   Determine employee vs contractor status

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   A product safety manager's background is also an important factor in determining whether they'll be a good fit for the position. For example, product safety managers from different industries or fields will have radically different experiences and will bring different viewpoints to the role. You also need to consider the candidate's previous level of experience to make sure they'll be comfortable with the job's level of seniority.

   Here's a comparison of product safety manager salaries for various roles:

   Type of Product Safety Manager	Description	Hourly rate
   Product Safety Manager	Health and safety engineers develop procedures and design systems to prevent people from getting sick or injured and to keep property from being damaged. They combine knowledge of systems engineering and of health and safety to make sure that chemicals, machinery, software, furniture, and other consumer products will not cause harm to people or damage to buildings.	$21-66
   Safety Supervisor	A safety supervisor is responsible for monitoring the overall operations of a production, ensuring the safety and security of everyone, and enforcing strict regulations and protocols. Safety supervisors organize safety orientations and training for the workers, as well as reiterating disciplinary measures and policies and procedures during meetings... Show more	$20-47
   Safety Manager	A safety manager is someone who ensures that a company is compliant and adhering to Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) guidelines. Safety managers are responsible for planning and implementing OHS policies and programs... Show more	$23-55

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2. Create an ideal candidate profile

   Common skills:

   • Risk Assessments
   • FDA
   • EU
   • Regulatory Agencies
   • Sops
   • Technical Support
   • Safety Data
   • EPA
   • ISO
   • Safety Regulations
   • Direct Reports
   • Product Line
   • Litigation
   • Product Development

   Check all skills

   Responsibilities:

   • Collaborate with cross-functional team to successfully achieve initial ISO 14001certification.
   • Respond to internal and external customer request for MSDS, PS, and regulatory issues.
   • Review and determine impact to MSDS.
   • Enter drug adverse events into the ARISg database.
   • Provide support in collection of data in relation to FDA special requests.
   • Apply knowledge of FDA and ICH regulations and guidelines to AE management and reporting.

3. Make a budget

   Including a salary range in your product safety manager job description is a great way to entice the best and brightest candidates. A product safety manager salary can vary based on several factors:

   • Location. For example, product safety managers' average salary in georgia is 54% less than in nevada.
   • Seniority. Entry-level product safety managers earn 67% less than senior-level product safety managers.
   • Certifications. A product safety manager with a few certifications under their belt will likely demand a higher salary.
   • Company. Working for a prestigious company or an exciting start-up can make a huge difference in a product safety manager's salary.

   Average product safety manager salary

   $79,337yearly

   $38.14 hourly rate

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   Entry-level product safety manager salary

   $45,000 yearly salary

   Updated December 15, 2025

4. Writing a product safety manager job description

   A product safety manager job description should include a summary of the role, required skills, and a list of responsibilities. It's also good to include a salary range and the first name of the hiring manager. To help get you started, here's an example of a product safety manager job description:

   Product safety manager job description example

   This role may also be located in our Playa Vista, CA campus.
   
   Minimum qualifications:
   
   + Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
   
   + 8 years of experience in management consulting, business intelligence, data science, corporate strategy, trust and safety, and/or operations
   
   + Experience with structured query language or coding (e.g. SQL)
   
   + Experience in people management
   
   Preferred qualifications:
   
   + Master's degree in a quantitative field (e.g., statistics, computer science, engineering, mathematics, and/or data sciences)
   
   + 10 years of experience in management consulting, business intelligence, data science, corporate strategy, trust and safety, and/or operations
   
   + Ability to work across teams, build relationships, and influence executive leadership
   
   + Ability to influence the direction of data efforts across the business
   
   + Excellent technical and problem solving skills
   
   + Outstanding business judgment and analysis skills
   
   Product and Business Strategy Leaders bring together teams across Google's functions to help products execute optimally. Our team pushes Google to scale at key points that refine our products and infrastructure by executing efficiently, bringing solid business sense and sound judgment, and working effectively across organizational lines.
   
   Our roles often include components of strategy (e.g. analyzing and understanding new trends in the industry, building business plans), operations (e.g. running the cadence of organizations, connecting the operating lines between our functions), and communications. Our team partners with senior leadership to run important functions that cross-cut our existing organizations and deliver high impact projects. We help Engineers, PMs, UX, and all of our other functions to build amazing products that delight our users, and then get those products into their hands.
   
   YouTube's ecosystem is constantly growing and evolving, and it is significant to deploy our resources efficiently to best serve YouTube's users, creators, and advertisers globally. We believe it's significant to use data to run our business and drive the decisions we make. Our Product Strategy and Operations Team (ProdOps) partners with Product and Engineering leaders to help them run each major part of our business.
   
   At YouTube, we believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we listen, share, and build community through our stories. We work together to give everyone the power to share their story, explore what they love, and connect with one another in the process. Working at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and boundless creativity, we move at the speed of culture with a shared goal to show people the world. We explore new ideas, solve real problems, and have fun - and we do it all together.
   
   + Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to help ensure the highest levels of trust and safety on the platform.
   
   + Define and understand the performance metrics we track internally.
   
   + Manage annual priorities (e.g., objective and key results) and execute on key initiatives throughout the year.
   
   + Implement operational efforts for broader, cross-functional programs and strategies that have direct, meaningful impact on the business.
   
   + Work with the Data Science team to execute quantitative analyses and advanced modeling that deliver actionable insights.

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5. Post your job

   To find the right product safety manager for your business, consider trying out a few different recruiting strategies:

   • Consider internal talent. One of the most important sources of talent for any company is its existing workforce.
   • Ask for referrals. Reach out to friends, family members, and current employees and ask if they know or have worked with product safety managers they would recommend.
   • Recruit at local colleges. Attend job fairs at local colleges to recruit product safety managers who meet your education requirements.
   • Social media platforms. LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter now have more than 3.5 billion users, and you can use social media to reach potential job candidates.

   Post your job online:

   • Post your product safety manager job on Zippia to find and recruit product safety manager candidates who meet your exact specifications.
   • Use field-specific websites.
   • Post a job on free websites.

6. Interview candidates

   Recruiting product safety managers requires you to bring your A-game to the interview process. The first interview should introduce the company and the role to the candidate as much as they present their background experience and reasons for applying for the job. During later interviews, you can go into more detail about the technical details of the job and ask behavioral questions to gauge how they'd fit into your current company culture.

   You should also ask about candidates' unique skills and talents to see if they match the ideal candidate profile you developed earlier. Candidates good enough for the next step can complete the technical interview.

   The right interview questions can help you assess a candidate's hard skills, behavioral intelligence, and soft skills.

7. Send a job offer and onboard your new product safety manager

   Once you've found the product safety manager candidate you'd like to hire, it's time to write an offer letter. This should include an explicit job offer that includes the salary and the details of any other perks. Qualified candidates might be looking at multiple positions, so your offer must be competitive if you like the candidate. Also, be prepared for a negotiation stage, as candidates may way want to tweak the details of your initial offer. Once you've settled on these details, you can draft a contract to formalize your agreement.

   You should also follow up with applicants who don't get the job with an email letting them know that you've filled the position.

   To prepare for the new employee's start date, you can create an onboarding schedule and complete any necessary paperwork, such as employee action forms and onboarding documents like I-9 forms, benefits enrollment, and federal and state tax forms. Human Resources should also ensure that a new employee file is created.

8. Go through the hiring process checklist

   • Determine employee type (full-time, part-time, contractor, etc.)
   • Submit a job requisition form to the HR department
   • Define job responsibilities and requirements
   • Establish budget and timeline
   • Determine hiring decision makers for the role
   • Write job description
   • Post job on job boards, company website, etc.
   • Promote the job internally
   • Process applications through applicant tracking system
   • Review resumes and cover letters
   • Shortlist candidates for screening
   • Hold phone/virtual interview screening with first round of candidates
   • Conduct in-person interviews with top candidates from first round
   • Score candidates based on weighted criteria (e.g., experience, education, background, cultural fit, skill set, etc.)
   • Conduct background checks on top candidates
   • Check references of top candidates
   • Consult with HR and hiring decision makers on job offer specifics
   • Extend offer to top candidate(s)
   • Receive formal job offer acceptance and signed employment contract
   • Inform other candidates that the position has been filled
   • Set and communicate onboarding schedule to new hire(s)
   • Complete new hire paperwork (i9, benefits enrollment, tax forms, etc.)

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