About the Role
Discord is seeking an Analytics Manager to lead the Scaled Abuse Countermeasures and Research (SCAR) team. This team is responsible for detecting, analyzing, and disrupting high-volume threats to maintain platform integrity. The role reports to the Head of Safety Intelligence and Automation.
Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a team of data analysts, scientists, and researchers investigating active threats, identifying platform abuse vectors, and uncovering adversarial patterns.
- Define a strategic roadmap prioritizing and disrupting high-impact abuse operations through research, analysis, and experimentation.
- Collaborate with the safety machine learning team to improve models by identifying threat signals for automated countermeasures.
- Partner cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Policy, Legal, and Revenue to influence safety-by-design decisions.
- Influence capacity toward high-impact infrastructure, such as automated rule engines, ML models, or agent moderation tools.
Requirements
- 2+ years of people management experience leading technical teams.
- 4+ years of experience in a Trust & Safety domain (fraud, spam, scams, account compromise, or other high-volume threats).
- Fluency in SQL and/or Python for data investigation and pattern analysis.
- Strong analytical problem-solving skills, with expertise in measurement and experimentation.
- Demonstrated ability to drive automation adoption within operations or incident response workflows.
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Skills
- SQL
- Python
- Data investigation
- Pattern analysis
- Measurement
- Experimentation
- Automation
- Incident response
- Communication
- Cross-functional collaboration
- LLMs
- AI agents
- Threat intelligence research
- Internet infrastructure
- Gaming
Location
- San Francisco Bay Area
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 2+ years people management
- 4+ years Trust & Safety
Education Level
- Relevant degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
Salary/Compensations
- $220,000 to $275,000
Benefits
- Equity
- Benefits
About the Company
- Discord has a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users.
- Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming.
- Discord is focused on making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games.
- Discord exists to give people the power to create space to find belonging — to talk regularly with the people they care about and build genuine relationships with friends and communities close to home or around the world.
- Discord is a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests, and helps developers build and grow their businesses.
- We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank.
- Join us in our mission!
Equal Opportunity
- Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process.
- We want you to feel set up for success, so if you are in need of reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know.
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