Senior Strategist, Ads and Shopping, Scams

Senior Strategist, Ads and Shopping, Scams

Driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members; deeper expertise and applied knowledge within relevant area.

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, cybersecurity, or related fields.

Preferred qualifications: Master's degree. Education in, or experience with, machine learning. Experience in SQL, building dashboards, data collection/transformation, visualization/dashboards, or experience in a scripting/programming language (e.g., Python). Excellent communication and presentation skills (written and verbal) and the ability to influence cross-functionally at various levels.

About the Job

Trust 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.

The Trust and Safety (T&S) Ads and Shopping - Scams team is leading the way in reducing scams while improving user experience on the platform. Our goal is integral to our day-to-day work. As a team, we work across multiple policy areas and focus on using various solutions to address the ever changing scam landscape.

Responsibilities

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.

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 the advertiser experience.

Conduct investigations to catch fraudsters, enforce our product policies, learn scam patterns/trends and identify product vulnerabilities.

Identify automation and efficiency opportunities and drive solutions through analysis or cross-functional partnerships.

Perform on-call responsibilities on a rotating basis, including weekend coverage/holidays.