Senior Strategist, Ads and Shopping, Scams

About the job

The Trust and Safety (T&S) Ads and Shopping - Scams team is leading the way in reducing scams while improving user experience on the platform. Our goal is integral to our day-to-day work. As a team, we work across multiple policy areas and focus on using various solutions to address the ever-changing scam landscape.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional groups such as PM, Engineering, Sales and Legal to drive projects that increases users' safety and provide better online experience through Google Ads.
• Execute complex queries and analyses, build visual models, and construct presentations on abuse trends to aid in fraud prevention and influence change in existing abuse detection systems without compromising the advertiser experience.
• Conduct investigations to catch fraudsters, enforce our product policies, learn scam patterns/trends and identify product vulnerabilities.
• Identify automation and efficiency opportunities and drive solutions through analysis or cross-functional partnerships.
• Perform on-call responsibilities on a rotating basis, including weekend coverage/holidays. This role works with sensitive content or situations and may be exposed to graphic, controversial, or upsetting topics or content.

Qualifications

• Minimum qualifications: Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Preferred qualifications: Master's degree, Education in, or experience with, machine learning, Experience in SQL, building dashboards, data collection/transformation, visualization/dashboards, or experience in a scripting/programming language (e.g., Python).
• Excellent communication and presentation skills (written and verbal) and the ability to influence cross-functionally at various levels.

Pay and Benefits

• US: $116000 - $167000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits