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.

Trust & Safety Intel's mission is to deliver actionable risk & abuse intelligence to ensure safe, useful, and trusted products.

The Intel Investigations team detects and disrupts complex cross-product area actor, behavior, and content threats to user trust in Google and their safety. We drive Trust & Safety’s cross-product area proactive risk management of advanced threats including malicious actor networks that drive coordinated influence operations, violent extremist content, and complex fraud and scams. We conduct AI-enabled signals intelligence investigations that combine open source intel with sensitive internal data layers from across product areas to catalyze systemic mitigation of bad actor networks and campaigns.Many of our Influence Operation languages tend to be in Mandarin, Russian, Arabic so it is a nice-to-have skillset.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $171,000-$248,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the global investigative roadmap for influence operations, fraud and extremism, setting cross-product priorities and enforcement strategies.
• Lead and mentor a technical investigative team, advancing their tradecraft in signals intelligence and professional judgment.
• Lead high-priority investigations, utilizing complex data layering and open-source intelligence to drive precise enforcement.
• Collaborate with Product, Policy, and Legal teams to translate investigative findings into systemic mitigations and company-wide disruption strategies.
• Manage external partnerships and regulatory reporting while communicating key trends, risks, and KPIs to senior leadership.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 10 years of experience in threat intelligence, trust & safety investigations, or a related field (e.g., law enforcement, intelligence community, financial crimes).

• 5 years of experience as a subject matter expertise in fraud and scams investigation, including detection, attribution, and disruption of financial threat actors.

• 1 year of people management experience leading technical or investigative teams.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience building ML/LLM-based detection signals and automated workflows to counter weaponized AI and platform abuse.

• Deep knowledge of coordinated influence operations, violent extremism, or sanctioned entities, including OSINT and network analysis.

• Background in regulatory reporting, information-sharing communities, or supporting affirmative litigation.