Account and Product Protections Analyst, Trust and Safety

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in a technical field

4 years of experience working in data analysis, cyber security, or anti-abuse

Experience in SQL, building dashboards, data collection/transformation workflows, database design, and experience in one additional scripting/programming language (e.g. Python)

Preferred qualifications:

Experience with machine learning

Experience in deriving actionable insights, root-causes and intelligence from complex data sources

Domain knowledge in abuse protection, security, malware, network engineering, or Android related topics

Ability to understand complex engineering systems and processes

Ability to work well in a cross-functional team environment with a focus on knowledge sharing and collaboration

Excellent communication and presentation skills (written and verbal) and ability to influence cross-functionally at various levels. Excellent problem solving skills with attention to detail and focus on getting things done

Trust & 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 an Account and Product Protections Analyst, you will focus on developing and evaluating new signals and approaches to detect abusive users and actions across all platforms. You will closely collaborate with the broader Trust and Safety teams and our engineering partners to develop detection systems and ways to mitigate abuse, to continuously monitor changing trends in the abuse ecosystem, and to use the existing data sources better to augment existing systems. At Google we work hard to earn our users’ trust every day. Trust & 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 diverse 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.The US base salary range for this full-time position is $114,000-$167,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google (https://careers.google.com/benefits/) .

Perform in-depth data analysis and look for patterns and trends to identify potential new security issues, understand attack vectors and build detection systems, and perform root-cause analyses on detected abusive incidents

Transform data into intelligence to prevent, detect, and mitigate abuse

Design, develop, and maintain reliable data-processing infrastructure, metrics, and dashboards

Evaluate the impact and quality of new signals on various account-related products across Google

Review or be exposed to sensitive content as part of core role. Participate in on call rotation

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 https://careers.google.com/eeo/ and https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/OFCCPEEOPost.pdf If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form: https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2.