Behavioral Abuse Analyst, YouTube Trust and Safety
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Location: San Bruno, CA 94066
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Minimum qualifications:
Preferred qualifications:
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 Behavioral Abuse Analyst, you are passionate about threat research and all source intelligence analysis. You will 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 will have a passion for extracting insights from information and expertise in analytic writing and communicating intelligence findings to varied audiences.
You will be part of a team responsible for mitigating the influence operations threat to the YouTube platform and user base. In this role, you will be contributing to high touch, technical investigations, and threat research. You will work alongside legal, product and engineering stakeholders to implement effective abuse detection and prevention mechanisms.
At YouTube, we believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we listen, share, and build community through our stories. We work together to give everyone the power to share their story, explore what they love, and connect with one another in the process. Working at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and boundless creativity, we move at the speed of culture with a shared goal to show people the world. We explore new ideas, solve real problems, and have fun - and we do it all together.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $110,000-$157,000 bonus equity benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google .
Responsibilities
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 4 years of experience in Data Analytics, Trust and Safety, Policy, Cybersecurity, or related fields.
- Experience with technical indicators and common cyber investigations techniques.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with Behavioral Abuse/Influence Operations investigations.
- Experience using SQL.
- Experience with finished analytical products and excellent communication, strategic, and analytical skills.
- Strong analytical thinking skills with the ability to apply data insights to understand and address abusive user behavior.
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 Behavioral Abuse Analyst, you are passionate about threat research and all source intelligence analysis. You will 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 will have a passion for extracting insights from information and expertise in analytic writing and communicating intelligence findings to varied audiences.
You will be part of a team responsible for mitigating the influence operations threat to the YouTube platform and user base. In this role, you will be contributing to high touch, technical investigations, and threat research. You will work alongside legal, product and engineering stakeholders to implement effective abuse detection and prevention mechanisms.
At YouTube, we believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we listen, share, and build community through our stories. We work together to give everyone the power to share their story, explore what they love, and connect with one another in the process. Working at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and boundless creativity, we move at the speed of culture with a shared goal to show people the world. We explore new ideas, solve real problems, and have fun - and we do it all together.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $110,000-$157,000 bonus equity benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google .
Responsibilities
- Investigate behavioral abuse and threat actors on the YouTube platform in order to understand techniques, impact and attribution.
- Participate in high velocity analytic work flow ensuring tight deadlines are consistently met, a high bar of analytic excellence is consistently applied and reporting deliverables reflect best practice intelligence assessments.
- Prepare written analytic products, presentations and strategic insights for senior YouTube leadership and to the broader organization.
- Work together with cross functional-teams on scaling investigative workflows, developing new capabilities, tool and classifier development and ensuring our posture is resilient against emerging threats.
- Utilize data analysis to extract key insights from user behavior, enhancing detection accuracy and operational efficiency.