Bilingual Threat Operations Specialist

10 Hours ago • 1-2 Years • $100,000 PA - $112,500 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

The Bilingual Threat Operations Specialist will review and respond to sensitive content reports, including child exploitation, graphic violence, and self-injury. They will investigate complex cases to understand and attribute abuse, preparing high-quality reports for internal and external audiences, including law enforcement. They will also need to demonstrate operational excellence, analyze risks, and work collaboratively, providing insights into exploitative content and minor safety. The role involves proactively identifying undetected abuse, responding to user safety concerns, and requires flexibility for non-standard shifts. The role requires experience in Trust and Safety moderation, focusing on child safety content review and removal.
Must have:
  • 1-2 years of Trust and Safety moderation experience.
  • Proficiency in a second language (Spanish, Portuguese, or Arabic preferred).
  • Ability to work non-standard shifts and Saturdays.
  • Exceptional communication skills.
Good to have:
  • Tertiary qualifications in related fields like Intelligence Studies.
  • Experience in utilizing SQL, Python or other programming language.

Job Details

Discord is used by over 200 million people every month for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does on our platform: play video games. Over 90% of our users play games, spending a combined 1.5 billion hours playing thousands of unique titles on Discord each month. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to talk and hang out before, during, and after playing games.

This role must be based on the West Coast (U.S.)

This hire will be critical in supporting the company to deeply understand and mitigate how harmful content, including child sexual abuse material, manifests on our platform, as well as investigating complex threats, advancing our investigative capabilities, and developing innovative approaches to prevent harm to our users, particularly minors.

This role involves exposure to graphic and/or objectionable content including but not limited to graphic images, videos and writings, offensive and derogatory language, and other potentially objectionable material, e.g. child exploitation, graphic violence, self-injury, animal abuse, and other content which may be considered offensive or disturbing.

What You'll Be Doing

  • Review and respond to sensitive content reports in our queues, including but not limited to the review of child exploitation, graphic violence, self-injury and suicide,  explicit images, videos and other objectionable and/or disturbing content.
  • Investigate complex cases to develop a detailed understanding of how abuse is occurring and attribute it to the person(s), and/or networks responsible, in order to prepare high quality written reports, for both internal and external audiences, including law enforcement agencies.
  • Demonstrate operational excellence when evaluating risks, threats, and user privacy in time-critical situations and execute decision-making while analyzing a variety of factors that include imminence of danger, sensitivities, and/or graphic content
  • Work collaboratively in responding to sensitive issues, providing deep knowledge into different exploitative content types and sharing insights and expertise about minor safety and exploitative content issues.
  • Proactively identify currently undetected abuse by leveraging internal data, open-source intelligence, trusted partner information and third party private intelligence.
  • Respond to users experiencing safety-related or high harm issues and empathetically address their concerns

What you should have

  • 1 - 2 years of experience in Trust and Safety moderation, including experience with child safety content review and removal
  • Proficiency with a second language (preferably Spanish, Portuguese, or Arabic)
  • Ability to work 1-2 hours on Saturdays, and flexibility to pick up non-standard shifts such as early morning or evening, and weekend/ holiday shifts to support our global operations
  • Demonstrated ability to operate in a high tempo, sensitive environment while meeting specific SLAs.
  • Exceptional communication skills with an ability to communicate complex information, concepts, or ideas in a confident and well-organized manner through verbal, written, and/or visual means.

Bonus points

  • Tertiary qualifications or equivalent experience in Intelligence Studies, Cybersecurity, Criminal Justice, Criminology or related field.
  • Experience in utilizing SQL, Python or other programming language for data manipulation.

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The US base salary range for this full-time position is $100,000 to $112,500 + equity + benefits.

Why Discord? 

Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests. 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! Your future is just a click away!

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About The Company

Founded in 2015, Discord is a voice, video and text app that helps friends and communities come together to hang out and explore their interests - from artists and activists, to study groups, sneakerheads, plant parents, and more. With 150 million monthly users across 19 million active communities, called servers, Discord has grown to become one of the most popular communications services in the world. Discord was built without selling ads or user data and instead, offers a premium subscription called Nitro that gives users special perks like higher quality streams and fun customizations.


And we're hiring! If this strikes a chord with you, come build belonging with us: https://discordapp.com/jobs for openings.

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