Staff Threat Analyst, Ads Fraud

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

Advertiser fraud work inside Reddit's Safety org, covering account takeover, payment and billing fraud, cloaking, deceptive ads and network abuse across the advertising platform. The role builds the strategy, detection playbooks and enforcement frameworks for a new function, working with Ads and Safety product, engineering, data science and ops teams.

• Fraud and scams
• Spam and platform abuse

What you'd do

• Chart a multi-quarter plan for detecting and enforcing against advertiser fraud, ranking the most damaging risks first.
• Investigate multi-entity fraud networks and adversarial tactics, running root-cause analysis on them.
• Map cluster infrastructure to prevent recurring advertiser abuse.
• Turn investigative findings into detection logic, risk scores and automated enforcement pipelines with data science and engineering.
• Act as the primary Safety subject matter expert with Ads product, engineering and policy teams.
• Write strategic guidance on adversarial dynamics for senior leadership.
• Design and standardize playbooks, escalation frameworks, QA standards and feedback loops for investigation and enforcement.

What it asks for

• 7+ years in threat intelligence, ad tech safety, trust and safety investigations, or platform integrity focused on ad fraud, financial crime, ATO or spam abuse.
• Demonstrated record of building threat response frameworks in ambiguous, zero-to-one environments.
• Strong SQL and Python or R, with big data tools for querying very large datasets and building network graphs.
• Experience using AI or LLMs as investigative tools and partnering with ML teams on LLM-based classifiers (preferred).
• Deep knowledge of digital ad ecosystems, ad serving infrastructure and ad-specific fraud types.
• Working knowledge of ad rules across markets, data privacy law and regulatory reporting expectations (preferred).

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