Senior Anti-Cheat Lead — Remote & Flexible Hours

Jagex; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Healthcare

Bonus (discretionary)

Pension contributions (min 6%)

Life Insurance

Enhanced family leave

Flexible working hours

25 days annual leave

Job summary

Jagex, based in Cambridge, is seeking a Lead Anti-Cheat Specialist to lead the Player Trust Anti-Cheat team. The role combines leadership, investigative judgment and data-driven ownership to protect millions of players across RuneScape’s ecosystem.

You will line-manage a small team, translate strategy into priorities, monitor trends, and coordinate complex investigations. Flexible/remote work is available with onsite attendance as required.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading or line managing a team.
• Significant anti-cheat, Trust and Safety, fraud prevention or similar experience.
• Strong data literacy; comfortable with operational data and anomalies.
• Solid Excel skills; SQL desirable.
• Sound judgement and decisive action when data is incomplete.
• Knowledge of online games/live service environments; MMO experience is a plus.
• Python familiarity is a bonus.

Responsibilities

• Lead, line manage and develop the Anti-Cheat team, setting objectives and providing coaching.
• Translate strategy into clear operational priorities with proper resourcing.
• Monitor KPIs and anomalies to drive improvement.
• Lead complex investigations into cheating and enforcing actions including bans and reviews.
• Collaborate with game, data and engineering teams to refine detection and enforcement processes.
• Coordinate shift scheduling and weekend rota when needed.

Skills

Team leadership

Anti-cheat experience

Data literacy

Excel

SQL

Decision making

Online games knowledge

Python

Zendesk

Tools

Zendesk

Job description

Jagex, based in Cambridge, is seeking a Lead Anti-Cheat Specialist to lead the Player Trust Anti-Cheat team. The role combines leadership, investigative judgment and data-driven ownership to protect millions of players across RuneScape’s ecosystem.

You will line-manage a small team, translate strategy into priorities, monitor trends, and coordinate complex investigations. Flexible/remote work is available with onsite attendance as required.