Senior Engineering Analyst, Google Ads, Trust and Safety
Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
Holidays: 13 paid days per year
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience in data analysis, including identifying trends, generating summary statistics, and drawing insights from quantitative and qualitative data.
- Experience in SQL for data extraction, manipulation, and analysis of datasets.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree in a quantitative discipline.
- Experience within the online advertising industry, particularly Google Ads products and policies.
- Experience in a scripting language (e.g., Python) for analysis and automation.
- Familiarity with organization and Individual verification technologies (e.g., liveness detection, document verification).
- Ability to influence and collaborate effectively with executive stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
- Excellent problem-solving and critical thinking skills with attention to detail in an ever-changing environment.
About the job
Trust & Safety team members are tasked with identifying and taking on the biggest problems that challenge the safety and integrity of our products. They use technical know-how, excellent problem-solving skills, user insights, and proactive communication to protect users and our partners from abuse across Google products like Search, Maps, Gmail, and Google Ads. On this team, you're a big-picture thinker and strategic team-player with a passion for doing what’s right. You work globally and cross-functionally with Google engineers and product managers to identify and fight abuse and fraud cases at Google speed - with urgency. And you take pride in knowing that every day you are working hard to promote trust in Google and ensuring the highest levels of user safety.
As a part of the Trust and Safety Ads team, the Senior Engineering Analyst will play a pivotal role in safeguarding the Google Ads ecosystem by leading critical projects focused on enhancing advertiser onboarding safety and the accuracy of risk controls.
As a part of their cross-functional responsibilities, you will also interface with Scams-Verification teams and serve as a bridge for high-priority incidents and escalations.
Your role requires a domain expert with exceptional problem-solving skills, technical acumen, and the ability to manage projects and stakeholder relationships in a high-stakes environment.
Responsibilities
- Lead and own the strategy, design, and implementation of projects to secure Google Ads onboarding signup flows, enhancing risk control accuracy and preventing malicious account creation.
- Drive the development, execution, and scaling of advertiser verification methods in partnership with engineering and product teams.
- Design, launch, and analyze validation pilots for new verification techniques and anti-abuse measures, particularly in high-risk markets, iterating based on data-driven insights.
- Act as a liaison to the scams-verification teams, fostering collaboration, sharing insights, and ensuring support for joint initiatives.
- Manage exposure to sensitive content or situations, including graphic, controversial, or upsetting topics or content, while fulfilling on-call schedules outside of working hours, including weekends and holidays.