Data Analyst, Risk
Content + Source + Freshness • 14 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
Attractive package due to market relevance, opportunities for impact on trust and safety, and competitive pay.
- Influential role contributing to user protection
- Stable work environment within a major corporation
- Possibility of career growth as field expands
Pros
- Focus on critical areas such as user trust and safety
- Growth in trust and safety analytics within tech
- Collaboration opportunities with diverse teams
Cons
- Complex project requirements may lead to pressure
- Narrow specialization might limit future mobility
- Potentially high workload with strict deadlines
Who it's for
Mid • On-site / Hybrid
Good fit
- Mid-career data analysts seeking meaningful work
- Individuals with a background in compliance or trust
- Candidates looking for teamwork-focused roles
Not recommended for
- Entry-level candidates without relevant background
- Job seekers uninterested in data security or analytics
- Those preferring to work independently
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
Data Analyst, Risk
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 4 years of experience in data analytics, Trust and Safety, policy, cybersecurity, or related fields.
Preferred qualifications:
- 4 years of experience in data analytics, access and authentication management, cybersecurity, technology research, anti-abuse, or related fields.
- Experience in SQL, building dashboards, data collection and transformation, statistical modeling, visualization and dashboards, or a scripting or programming language (e.g., Python, Java, C++).
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
About the job
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.
As The Data Analyst, Risk, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining Trust and Safety access and security systems, ensuring that security objectives are met without compromising operational efficiency. You will be designing and implementing seamless integrations between business goals and security systems, which includes developing and executing strategies to enhance system effectiveness. You will also manage complex projects with multiple stakeholders, stringent deadlines, and significant organizational implications, requiring a high degree of adaptability to changing circumstances. You will have an understanding of the process area, encompassing domain expertise in data sources, access and authentication methods, relevant products, potential issues, interconnected systems, Google-wide business projects, and advanced methodologies such as data extraction and pipeline building.
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 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.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain Trust and Safety access and security systems, ensuring security objectives are met without compromising operational efficiency.
- Design and implement seamless integrations between business goals and security systems, including developing and executing strategies to support system effectiveness.
- Manage projects involving multiple stakeholders, stringent deadlines, significant organizational implications, and requiring adaptability to changing circumstances.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the process area, including domain expertise in data sources, access and authentication methods, relevant products, potential issues, interconnected systems, Google-wide business projects, and investigative methodologies (e.g., extracting data, building data pipelines).
- Create anomaly detection pipelines, monitor and analyse systems for scaled abuse detection and user access monitoring and reduce risk to the enterprise.
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