Senior Threat Operations Specialist

7 Minutes ago • 2 Years + • Operations

Job Summary

Job Description

Discord is a platform used by over 200 million people monthly, primarily for gaming, with users spending 1.5 billion hours on thousands of titles. This role is crucial for understanding and mitigating harmful content, including child sexual abuse material, on the platform. It involves investigating complex threats, enhancing investigative capabilities, and developing innovative approaches to protect users, especially minors. The specialist will work remotely in Australia, reporting to the Minor Safety and Exploitative Content Manager.
Must have:
  • Respond to time sensitive escalations from safety reporting network, law enforcement, government bodies, and users.
  • Review child exploitation, graphic violence, self-injury, suicide, and explicit content.
  • Investigate accounts and create reports for NCMEC.
  • Proactively identify undetected abuse using internal data, OSINT, and third-party intelligence.
  • Identify effective strategies to disrupt abuse at scale and build recommendations.
  • Collaborate with Policy, Product, Engineering, and Legal teams to implement strategies.
  • Demonstrate operational excellence in evaluating risks, threats, and user privacy.
  • Execute decision-making in time-critical situations with graphic content.
  • Take ownership in responding to incidents, providing deep knowledge of exploitative content.
  • Share insights and expertise about minor safety issues with stakeholders.
  • Create, maintain, and develop internal resources for subject matter expertise.
  • Mentor and guide junior team members, including delivering internal training.
  • Ability to work early morning, occasional weekend/holiday shifts.
Good to have:
  • Multilingual capabilities with native or near-native proficiency in a second language.
  • Previous threat intelligence experience involving minor safety and child sexual abuse prevention.
  • Education or professional experience in Law, Intelligence Studies, Cybersecurity, Criminal Justice, Criminology.
  • Technical proficiency in data analysis tools including SQL, Python, or other programming languages.

Job Details

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.

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.

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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