Fraud Threat Team Lead

Written by the T&S Network from Alice's posting.

Leads a team of fraud threat analysts researching detection mechanisms, abuse vectors and platform vulnerabilities across online services. The work covers OSINT investigations into fraud on web and mobile platforms, including social media, forums, apps and the dark web, to find emerging tactics and behavioral weaknesses. The posting places the role within the Fraud group and frames it as a client-facing research function.

• Fraud and scams

What you'd do

• Manage a team of fraud threat analysts, handling task assignment, priorities and performance reviews.
• Set research priorities and methods in line with client needs and business objectives.
• Run and supervise probes into fraud tactics on social media, forums, apps and the dark web.
• Design and guide research methods, including technical validation of abuse scenarios.
• Own the strategy for building and running research environments and tooling for investigations and red team work.
• Analyze large datasets, telemetry and technical artifacts to surface patterns and actionable insights.
• Present findings to clients and internal stakeholders and turn research into strategic guidance.

What it asks for

• 2+ years leading or mentoring analysts, as a formal manager or technical/team lead.
• Track record juggling several projects, ranking work and delivering on compressed schedules.
• Strong understanding of OPSEC and experience implementing it at team level.
• Strong knowledge of WEBINT and OSINT across social media, apps and the dark web.
• Comfortable with logs, APIs, automation and investigative tooling.
• Fluent English; additional languages (preferred).

Terms in this role

OSINT.

Open-source intelligence: investigating with publicly available information, such as social media, public records, archived pages and imagery.

Red teaming.

Testing a system, often an AI model, by deliberately trying to make it fail or misbehave, so problems are found and fixed first.

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