Senior Strategist, Trust and Safety

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of experience in data analytics, trust and safety, policy, cybersecurity, or a related field.
• Experience in data analysis and stakeholder management.
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's or PhD degree in a quantitative field like engineering, computer science, mathematics, or statistics.
• Experience with scripting and coding (eg. C/C++, Python, Java).
• Experience with fraud or policy investigations, fraud risk management, Internet advertising, or e-commerce.
• Experience in roles related to business analysis, statistical analysis/machine learning.
• Excellent problem-solving and critical thinking skills with attention-to-detail in an ever-changing environment.
  
  

About the jobTrust and Safety team members are tasked with identifying and taking on the biggest problems that challenge the safety and integrity of our products. They use technical know-how, excellent problem-solving skills, user insights, and proactive communication to protect users and our partners from abuse across Google products like Search, Maps, Gmail, and Google Ads. On this team, you're a big-picture thinker and strategic team-player with a passion for doing what's right. You work globally and cross-functionally with Google engineers and product managers to identify and fight abuse and fraud cases at Google speed - with urgency. And you take pride in knowing that every day you are working hard to promote trust in Google and ensuring the highest levels of user safety.

As a T&S Ads Scams Analyst, you will be responsible for protecting users from offline scams, which take place outside the Google Ads Platform. You will use data to provide recommendations to products and devise solutions (global and hyperlocal) to stay ahead of the fraudsters. You will also be responsible for ensuring good advertisers are provided the right opportunity to serve. As an analyst, you will use Applied AI, machine learning or other techniques to optimize human review cost and efficiency while continuously identifying enforcement gaps and automation opportunities. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to achieve your business goals and lead projects end-to-end.At Google we work hard to earn our users trust every day. Trust and Safety is Google's team of abuse fighting and user trust experts working daily to make the internet a safer place. We partner with teams across Google to deliver bold solutions in abuse areas such as malware, spam and account hijacking. A team of Analysts, Policy Specialists, Engineers, and Program Managers, we work to reduce risk and fight abuse across all of Google's products, protecting our users, advertisers, and publishers across the globe in over 40 languages.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional groups such as Product Management (PM), Engineering, Sales and Legal to drive projects that increases users safety and provide better online experience through Google Ads.
• Execute complex queries and analyses, build visual models, and construct presentations on abuse trends to aid in fraud prevention and influence change in existing abuse detection systems without compromising advertiser experience.
• Conduct investigations to catch fraudsters, enforce product policies, learn scam patterns/trends and identify product vulnerabilities.
• Identify automation and efficiency opportunities and drive solutions through analysis or cross-functional partnerships.
• Provide periodic on-call coverage and address escalations from both internal and external stakeholders within established service level agreements, while acknowledging occasional exposure to some adult content and other potentially disturbing material during the course of these duties.
  
  

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .