Senior Engineering Analyst, Google Ads, Trust and Safety

About the Role: Senior Engineering Analyst, Google Ads, Trust and Safety

As a Senior Engineering Analyst on the Trust and Safety Ads team at Google, you will play a pivotal role in safeguarding the Google Ads ecosystem. This involves leading critical projects focused on enhancing advertiser onboarding safety and the accuracy of risk controls, thereby preventing malicious account creation. You will drive the strategy and execution of current and upcoming verification flows, validating pilots in high-risk segments. Your cross-functional responsibilities will also include interfacing with Scams-Verification teams, serving as a bridge for high-priority incidents and escalations. This role requires a domain expert with exceptional problem-solving skills, technical acumen, and the ability to manage projects and stakeholder relationships in a high-stakes, ever-changing environment.

The Trust & Safety team at Google identifies and tackles major challenges to the safety and integrity of Google's products. Using technical expertise, problem-solving skills, user insights, and proactive communication, the team protects users and partners from abuse across products like Search, Maps, Gmail, and Google Ads. This role demands a big-picture thinker and strategic team-player with a passion for integrity, working globally and cross-functionally with engineers and product managers to fight abuse and fraud with urgency, promoting trust and ensuring the highest levels of user safety.

Responsibilities

• Lead and own the strategy, design, and implementation of projects to secure Google Ads onboarding signup flows, enhancing risk control accuracy and preventing malicious account creation.
• Drive the development, execution, and scaling of advertiser verification methods in partnership with engineering and product teams.
• Design, launch, and analyze validation pilots for new verification techniques and anti-abuse measures, particularly in high-risk markets, iterating based on data-driven insights.
• Act as a liaison to the scams-verification teams, fostering collaboration, sharing insights, and ensuring support for joint initiatives.
• Manage exposure to sensitive content or situations, including graphic, controversial, or upsetting topics or content, while fulfilling on-call schedules outside of working hours, including weekends and holidays.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in data analysis, including identifying trends, generating summary statistics, and drawing insights from quantitative and qualitative data.
• Experience in SQL for data extraction, manipulation, and analysis of datasets.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in a quantitative discipline.
• Experience within the online advertising industry, particularly Google Ads products and policies.
• Experience in a scripting language (e.g., Python) for analysis and automation.
• Familiarity with organization and individual verification technologies (e.g., liveness detection, document verification).
• Ability to influence and collaborate effectively with executive stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
• Excellent problem-solving and critical thinking skills with attention to detail in an ever-changing environment.

Key skills/competency

• Data Analysis
• SQL
• Risk Control
• Fraud Prevention
• Project Management
• Stakeholder Management
• Online Advertising
• Python
• Verification Technologies
• Cross-functional Collaboration