Senior Strategist, Scams and Verification Trust and Safety

Google; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 116,000 - 166,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision, life insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off: 20 days/year + accrual

Sick time up to 69 hours/year (Seattle

Maternity leave: 28–30 weeks

Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks

13 paid holidays

Job summary

Google is seeking a Senior Strategist in the Trust & Safety organization to protect users from offline scams and optimize fraud detection using data-driven approaches. You will lead end-to-end projects, collaborate with engineers and product teams, and apply AI or machine learning to improve efficiency and reduce risk across Google Ads and related products.

You will work globally, influence product decisions, and champion best practices for safety, privacy, and user trust while solving complex

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of experience in data analytics, trust and safety, policy, risk analysis, or related fields.
• Experience in SQL.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional groups to drive projects that increase users' safety and improve online experience through Google Ads.
• Apply advanced statistical methods and technical analysis to uncover sophisticated abuse vectors.
• Lead investigations into complex tactics, techniques, and procedures to track actors and disrupt organized fraud rings targeting Google Ads.
• Identify automation and efficiency opportunities and drive solutions through analysis or cross-functional partnerships.
• Provide periodic on-call coverage and drive rapid response for high-severity adversarial incidents, plus conduct RCAs to implement long-term preventions.

Skills

Data analytics

Trust & Safety

Policy

Risk analysis

SQL

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's degree in CS/Engineering/Math/Statistics or related field

Job description

In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of experience in data analytics, trust and safety, policy, risk analysis, or related fields.
• Experience in SQL.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or Analysis, or a related technical field.
• Experience with scripting and coding (e.g., Python, Java).
• Experience with fraud or policy investigations, fraud risk management, Internet advertising, or e-commerce.
• Experience in roles related to business analysis or statistical analysis/machine learning.
• Excellent problem-solving and critical thinking skills with attention to detail in an ever-changing environment.

About The Job

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 a Senior Strategist in the Scams and Verification team, you will be responsible for protecting users from offline scams - 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. 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. You will collaborate closely with engineers to develop algorithms and solve quality issues end-to-end.

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 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.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $116000 - $166000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Collaborate with cross-functional groups such as PM, Engineering, Sales, and Legal to drive projects that increases users' safety and provide better online experience through Google Ads.
• Apply advanced statistical methods and technical analysis to uncover sophisticated abuse vectors.
• Lead investigations into complex tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) to perform actor tracking and disrupt organized fraud rings targeting Google Ads.
• Identify automation and efficiency opportunities and drive solutions through analysis or cross-functional partnerships.
• Provide periodic on-call coverage and drive the rapid response for high-severity adversarial incidents, plus conduct thorough root cause analyses (RCAs) to implement long-term structural preventions.

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 .