Staff Threat Analyst, Ads Fraud

What you'll do

• Set the multi-quarter strategy and prioritize advertiser-fraud risks, including account takeover, billing fraud, deceptive ads, and network abuse.
• Investigate fraud networks, identify root causes, and translate findings into detection logic, risk scores, and automated enforcement with partner teams.
• Build and standardize investigative playbooks, escalation frameworks, QA standards, and feedback loops.

What they ask for

• 7+ years in threat intelligence, ad tech safety, trust & safety investigations, or platform integrity focused on ad fraud, financial crime, ATO, or spam abuse.
• Demonstrated experience building threat response frameworks from scratch in ambiguous environments.
• Strong proficiency in SQL, Python or R, and big data environments; able to query petabyte-scale datasets and construct adversarial network graphs.
• Expertise in digital ad ecosystems, ad serving infrastructure, and ad-specific fraud archetypes; experience using AI/LLMs as investigative copilots and partnering with ML teams on LLM-based detection classifiers.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with global ad compliance, privacy regulations, and regulatory reporting standards.

Pay

$167,500 — $234,500 USD (base salary)

Tools

SQL, Python, R, AI/LLMs

AI focus

Use AI/LLMs as investigative copilots and partner with ML teams to deploy LLM-based detection classifiers.