Senior Exploitative Content Specialist

1 Month ago • 2 Years + • Digital Marketing • $124,000 PA - $139,500 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Discord is seeking a Senior Exploitative Content Specialist to mitigate harmful content, including child sexual abuse material, and investigate complex threats on their platform. The role involves responding to sensitive escalations from various sources, investigating accounts, and reporting to relevant authorities like NCMEC. The specialist will proactively identify abuse using internal data and open-source intelligence, develop strategies to disrupt abuse, and collaborate with Policy, Product, Engineering, and Legal teams. The position requires operational excellence in evaluating risks and user privacy, providing expertise on exploitative content, and mentoring junior team members. The role may involve early morning, weekend, or holiday shifts to support global operations.
Must have:
  • Minimum 2 years investigating crimes against children.
  • Minimum 2 years in investigations or content moderation.
  • Expertise in global online safety landscapes and child exploitation trends.
  • Proven experience reporting child safety cases.
  • Outstanding communication abilities for diverse stakeholders.
  • Self-directed work style in a remote, deadline-driven environment.
Good to have:
  • Multilingual capabilities.
  • Previous threat intelligence experience.
  • Education in Law, Intelligence Studies, Cybersecurity, Criminal Justice, Criminology, or related fields.
  • Technical proficiency in data analysis tools (SQL, Python).
Perks:
  • Equity
  • Benefits

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 is 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 hire will report to the Minor Safety and Exploitative Content Manager. 

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, i.e., child exploitation, graphic violence, self-injury, suicide, explicit images, videos, and other content which may be considered offensive or disturbing.

What You'll Be Doing

  • Respond to time sensitive escalations from members of the Safety Reporting network, law enforcement, government bodies, and users, 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 accounts and create reports for NCMEC, if required. 
  • Proactively identify currently undetected abuse by leveraging internal data, open-source intelligence, trusted partner information and third party private intelligence.
  • Identify effective strategies to disrupt abuse at scale, build recommendations, and work collaboratively with other internal teams, including Policy, Product, Engineering and Legal teams to effect those strategies, including leading projects in some instances.
  • 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.
  • Take ownership in responding to incidents, providing deep knowledge into different exploitative content types and sharing insights and expertise about minor safety and exploitative content issues with stakeholder teams
  • Create, maintain, and develop internal resources around contemporary subject matter expertise, workflows and process updates.
  • Mentor and guide junior team members in the execution of their duties, including delivering internal training.
  • Ability to work early morning, and occasional weekend/ holiday shifts to support our global operations.

What you should have

  • Minimum 2 years of specialized experience investigating crimes against children through intelligence agencies, law enforcement, NGOs, or Trust and Safety teams.
  • Minimum 2 years of generalized experience in investigations or content moderation.
  • Current expertise in global online safety landscapes, including familiarity with child sexual exploitation trends such as sextortion, the facilitation of CSAM sale and distribution, and evolving criminal methodologies targeting minors. 
  • Proven experience reporting child safety cases to NGOs, law enforcement agencies, or other relevant authorities, with understanding of proper protocols and considerations.
  • Outstanding communication abilities to articulate complex technical concepts, case findings, and risk assessments clearly to diverse stakeholders through written reports, presentations, and briefings.
  • Self-directed work style with proven ability to maintain high performance standards and adapt quickly to changing priorities in remote, deadline-driven environments.

Bonus Points

  • Multilingual capabilities with native or near-native proficiency in a second language, enabling investigation and reporting of international cases and cross-border collaboration.
  • Previous threat intelligence experience involving minor safety and the prevention of child sexual abuse
  • Education or equivalent professional experience in Law, Intelligence Studies, Cybersecurity, Criminal Justice, Criminology, or related disciplines that enhance investigative methodology and legal understanding.
  • Technical proficiency in data analysis tools including SQL, Python, or other programming languages for extracting insights from large datasets, identifying patterns, and supporting evidence-based investigations.


The US base salary range for this full-time position is $124,000 to $139,500 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or 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

Discord is a voice, video and text platform that helps friends come together to hang out, play games and have fun. When Jason Citron and Stanislav Vishnevskiy founded Discord in 2015 they had a hunch that multiplayer gaming would be the future of entertainment and that people would need a communications platform designed for them to talk with their gaming friends. Today, gaming has become the largest form of entertainment in the world, bigger than movies and music combined. It’s the fastest-growing as well. Discord makes it feel like you’re playing in the same room with friends.

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