Staff Threat Analyst, Ads Fraud

<div class="content-intro"><div class="c-message_kit__blocks c-message_kit__blocks--rich_text"> <div class="c-message__message_blocks c-message__message_blocks--rich_text" data-qa="message-text"> <div class="p-block_kit_renderer" data-qa="block-kit-renderer"> <div class="p-block_kit_renderer__block_wrapper p-block_kit_renderer__block_wrapper--first"> <div class="p-rich_text_block"> <div class="p-rich_text_section">Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit <a class="c-link" href="http://www.redditinc.com/" target="_blank" data-stringify-link="http://redditinc.com" data-sk="tooltip_parent">www.redditinc.com</a>.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div><p>Reddit is continuing to grow our teams with the best talent. This role is<a href="https://redditblog.com/2020/10/27/evolving-reddits-workforce/"> completely remote friendly</a> within the United States. If you happen to live close to one of our physical office locations (San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City &amp; Chicago) our doors are open for you to come into the office as often as you'd like.</p> <p>As Reddit’s advertising ecosystem rapidly expands, protecting our platform, advertisers, and users from bad actors is paramount. We are seeking a Staff Threat Analyst to serve as the operational architect for Advertiser Fraud within Safety. You will have end-to-end ownership to establish the strategy, build foundational detection playbooks, and define enforcement frameworks.&nbsp;</p> <p>You will work in tight partnership with cross-functional Product, Engineering, Data Science, and Ops teams across both Safety and Ads orgs to convert adversarial insights into scalable automated defenses. This is a 0-to-1 opportunity to shape our threat response frameworks, operational playbooks, and detection pipelines from scratch.</p> <h3><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></h3> <ul> <li><strong>Strategy &amp; System Architecture:</strong> Formulate and execute a multi-quarter vision for advertiser fraud detection and enforcement; independently prioritize high-impact risks like account takeover (ATO), payment/billing fraud, cloaking, deceptive ads and network abuse.</li> <li><strong>Deep Analytics &amp; Investigations:</strong> Conduct deep