Threat Investigations Manager

Google

San Bruno, CA

JOB DETAILS
JOB TYPE
Full-time, Employee
SKILLS
Analysis Skills, Automation, Communication Skills, Construction Safety, Cross-Functional, Data Analysis, Data Sets, Ecosystems, Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO), Legal, People Management, Policy Development, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Project/Program Management, Python Programming/Scripting Language, SQL (Structured Query Language), Statistics, Team Lead/Manager, Time Management, Trend Analysis, Writing Skills, YouTube
LOCATION
San Bruno, CA
POSTED
30+ days ago

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 7 years of experience in data analysis, including identifying trends, generating summary statistics, and drawing insights from quantitative and qualitative data.
  • 7 years of experience managing projects and defining project scope, goals, and roadmaps.
  • 3 years of experience in people management, leading high impact teams.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience creating opportunities to innovate and executing from design to implementation.
  • Experience with product and policy knowledge and the ability to influence across domains.
  • Experience and interest in geopolitical issues.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

About the job

Fast-paced, dynamic, and proactive, YouTube’s Trust & Safety team is dedicated to making YouTube a safe place for users, viewers, and content creators around the world to create, and express themselves. Whether understanding and solving their online content concerns, navigating within global legal frameworks, or writing and enforcing worldwide policy, the Trust & Safety team is on the frontlines of enhancing the YouTube experience, building internet safety, and protecting free speech in our ever-evolving digital world.

As a Threat Investigations Manager, you are responsible for formulating strategies and implementing innovative solutions to drive anti-abuse analytics and detection at scale within YouTube. This includes leading a capable team of analysts as well as driving scaled abuse investigation and enforcement operations. You leverage investigative experience and creativity to understand and analyze sophisticated abuse activity and are motivated to protect the integrity of the YouTube platform and user base. You have a passion for extracting insights from information, expertise in analytic writing and communicating nuanced findings to varied audiences. You thrive in a fast, dynamic, demanding environment where the threat actor landscape is constantly evolving. You will be a key contributor to the efforts to reduce badness on YouTube. You will be part of a team responsible for overseeing emerging threats to the YouTube platform and user base. Such threats include financial or influence-motivated abuse actors leveraging novel TTPs. The role entails leading the development of policies, designing and implementing detection and automation, and running scaled workflows.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US: $188000 - $275000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + bonus + equity + benefitsLearn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

  • Manage a team of analysts running high velocity workflows ensuring tight deadlines are consistently met.
  • Lead the team to create and deploy automated solutions for bulk classification of abusive content and behavior using a variety of tools, features and functions. Ranging from automating SQL-like queries to real time Python based classification logic.
  • Manage a large-scale enforcement operation covering multiple abuse domains.
  • Apply statistical methods to large data sets to understand the impact of abuse to the YouTube ecosystem. Contribute to strategy and development of new workflows against additional known and emerging vectors of abuse.
  • Collaborate closely with stakeholders and partners in engineering, product, policy and legal to drive complex anti-abuse solutions involving and impacting various cross-functional areas.
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.

About the Company

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Google

Build for everyone

Since our founding in 1998, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. Starting from two computer science students in a university dorm room, we now have thousands of employees and offices around the world. These Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe.

It starts with how we work together. We’re building a company where people of different views, backgrounds and experiences can do their best work and show up for one another. A place where every Googler feels like they belong.

So whether you develop new technology or creative campaigns, craft beautiful products or breakthrough partnerships, your work here is a chance to accomplish things that matter. Bring your insight, imagination, and healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.

Benefits

We strive to provide Googlers and their loved ones with a world-class benefits experience, focused on supporting their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. Our benefits are based on data, and centered around our users: Googlers and their families. They’re thoughtfully designed to enhance your health and wellbeing, and generous enough to make it easy for you to take good care of yourself (now, and in the future). So we can build for everyone, together.

Learn more about Google’s benefits on this site featuring Googlers’ experience.

How we Hire

Google’s hiring process is an important part of our culture. Googlers care deeply about their teams and the people who make them up. In order to  build for everyone, we know that we need a wide range of perspectives and experiences, and a fair hiring process is the first step in getting there.

Learn more about our hiring process.

COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Computer Software
EMPLOYEE BENEFITS
Paid Sick Days, Performance Bonus, Professional Development, 401K, Stock Options, Employee Events, Retirement / Pension Plans, Tuition Reimbursement, Work From Home, Life Insurance, On Site Cafeteria
FOUNDED
1998
WEBSITE
https://goo.gle/4dbno6V