About the Role
Rockstar Games is seeking a passionate Senior Manager to lead and develop the Game Security team. This role is crucial for ensuring games and services remain secure and enjoyable by protecting against cheaters, vulnerabilities, and exploits. The successful candidate will design and implement processes to strengthen the game security program, mitigate threats, and evolve enforcement and operations.
Responsibilities
- Leverage extensive subject matter expertise to develop and support anti-cheat initiatives and protect the integrity of live service titles.
- Lead, mentor, and manage a talented and cross-functional team engaged in day-to-day anti-cheat operations for online titles.
- Set team priorities, allocate resources effectively, and plan for future growth to meet organizational objectives.
- Establish and standardize operational processes, tools, and best practices.
- Contribute to the development and monitoring of key risk and performance indicators in partnership with the analytics and insights team.
- Partner closely with product management, production, and leadership to define technology, tooling, and process advancements required to protect the online player experience.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in game security, anti-cheat, anti-fraud, or related security functions.
- 3+ years of experience leading high-performing teams, particularly in geographically dispersed locations.
- Experience supporting the ongoing operations of a live service or large-scale AAA multiplayer game.
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills and a strong track record interfacing with technical and non-technical personnel at a variety of levels.
- Strong ability to translate goals at a strategic business level into actionable, operational objectives.
- Exceptional problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to distill complex and nuanced issues into structured frameworks and processes.
- A passion for building resilient, competent, and co-operative teams.
Skills
- Modern client security features (DRM, anti-cheat)
- Credential stuffing and bot mitigation
- Machine learning or business rule approaches for cheat, fraud, or bot detection
- Rigorous documentation requirements (e.g., investigations, analysis, regulatory compliance, etc.)
Location
- London
Work Type
- Full-time
- Permanent
- In-office
Experience Level
- Senior Manager
About the Company
- At Rockstar Games, we create world-class entertainment experiences.
- Become part of a team working on some of the most rewarding, large-scale creative projects to be found in any entertainment medium - all within an inclusive, highly-motivated environment where you can learn and collaborate with some of the most talented people in the industry.
- The Game Security team is responsible for protecting our players, our games, and intellectual property from malicious actors.
- We work across multiple disciplines to detect, deter, and disrupt threats impacting the player experience.
- We work closely with other teams to enforce, support, and improve security solutions.
Equal Opportunity
- Rockstar is committed to creating a work environment that promotes equal opportunity, dignity and respect.
- Rockstar will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified job applicants with disabilities during the recruitment process in order for such applicants to be considered for the position for which they are applying, as well as to qualified employees to enable them to perform the essential functions of their roles.
- We encourage applications from all suitable candidates regardless of age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, belief, race, or any other protected category.
