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.
The mission of the Trust & Safety Ad Traffic Quality team is to make the ads ecosystem universally trusted and defended against invalid traffic. We analyze events and create scalable methods to stop motivated fraudsters from causing harm. We help users, advertisers, publishers, and Google gain information and monetize the internet safely and usefully.
As a Research Analyst on the Trust & Safety Ad Traffic Quality team, you're responsible for future-proofing Google's ad ecosystem from invalid traffic. You will think like a fraudster and a product designer to discover abuse trends and signatures. You take risks to seek out and deeply understand the unknown, and then share findings and concrete recommendations with our partner teams. You work closely with our internal and external partners to advance our defenses, because we don't succeed unless they do.
At Google we work hard to earn our users’ trust every day. Trust & Safety is Google’s team of abuse fighting and user trust experts working daily to make the internet a safer place. We partner with teams across Google to deliver bold solutions in abuse areas such as malware, spam and account hijacking. A diverse team of Analysts, Policy Specialists, Engineers, and Program Managers, we work to reduce risk and fight abuse across all of Google’s products, protecting our users, advertisers, and publishers across the globe in over 40 languages.