Detection Analyst (Search)

Detection Analyst

Location: Austin, TX

Language Requirements: English or English/Mandarin

Job Description

Vaco is seeking discerning individuals plugged into internet technologies at the intersection of geopolitical events and user harm issues. You’ll be working at the leading edge of researching fast-developing issues and trends like the spread of misinformation, fraud, culture-shifting trends or potential breaches in election integrity.

This is a vendor role with Vaco, for our client, a Fortune 100 company. This position is on-site at our North Austin location.

Candidates can expect a fast-paced, energetic environment working on a team that delivers high-impact awareness of world events.

Schedule Requirements:

Monday to Friday, 9:30am-6:00pm with 30 min lunch break (flexible schedule)
You may be asked to work outside of your core hours due to business necessity

This role offers:

Full Time (40 hrs/week), salary
Paid time off, holidays, parenting leave
Health benefits with low premiums
Access to a comprehensive well-being program with resources to support physical and mental health: Employee Assistance Program, Live and recorded meditation, Yoga, Webinars, Counseling, Events, Resilience skill building and more.

Responsibilities

Review various sources on a daily basis to highlight any clear indicators, directions, and trending developments that impact Trust & Safety.
Issue hourly short-form, contextualized analysis covering new emerging trends and threats that impact Trust & Safety.
Help maintain a global sensitive events calendar that tracks key events and dates that may impact our client and its products, updated at least weekly to capture the most up-to-date information.
Maintain and refine category lists for organizing analyses in a database, updated at least weekly.
Perform database hygiene, reviewing prior analyses for completeness, grammar, punctuation, and other issues.
Provide usefulness feedback to the Detection team who will be escalating trends or threats from your analyses to product teams.
Review findings and analyses with analysts during weekly scrums.

Minimum Qualifications

BA/BS Degree in Political Science, International Relations, International Law, Criminal Justice, Forensic Accounting, Forensic Science, Data Mining, or related field.
4+ years experience in relevant fields (Data Analysis, Research, Risk and Fraud Investigation, Internet Industry, Intelligence, Politics, International Relations, Law Enforcement).
Broad understanding of a wide range of global socio-political dynamics and how they can impact the user experience.
Comfort with exposure to / ability to review sensitive content.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with ability to communicate abstract concepts and extract pertinent details from various sources of information, and summarize them logically and effectively in writing.
Proficiency in a language besides English, including: Spanish/Portuguese or Mandarin

Preferred Qualifications

Interest and ability to keep up with technical discussions.
Experience producing and leveraging analysis of malicious, criminal, and/or violent actors (states, groups, and individuals) in cyberspace.
Familiarity with information operations Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs).
Comfortable / thrives with a certain amount of chaos / ambiguity.
Familiarity in one or more of the following areas: Coding (e.g., C/C++, Python, Java), Databases and querying (e.g., SQL, MySQL, MapReduce, Hadoop), Front end development (e.g., HTML, JavaScript, CSS), Statistical analysis (e.g., R, Stata, SPSS, SAS).
Good knowledge of web research, online advertising, fraud detection, numerical analysis, search engine optimization, and/or e-commerce.

Vaco is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national orgin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, disabillity or any other federal, state or local protected class.

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For more information regarding this exciting position, please contact us at info@vacobinary.com