Manager, Safety Analytics

Job Overview

Discord has a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users who use the platform for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does: play video games.

Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, and we are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games.

Job Description

SCAR detects, analyzes, and disrupts high-volume threats through a combination of automated systems, deep research, and active incident response. This role reports to the Head of Safety Intelligence and Automation.

Define a strategic roadmap that prioritizes and disrupts the highest impact abuse operations through structured research, rigorous analyses, and live experimentation.

Collaborate closely with the safety machine learning team to improve models by identifying the threat signals that translate into long-term, automated countermeasures.

Partner cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Policy, Legal, and Revenue, influencing safety-by-design decisions upstream of abuse.

Influence capacity toward high-impact infrastructure, such as automated rule engines, ML models, or agent moderation tools.

Key Responsibilities

• Discord exists to give people the power to create space to find belonging - to talk regularly with the people they care about and build genuine relationships with friends and communities close to home or around the world.
• We're looking for an Analytics Manager to lead our Scaled Abuse Countermeasures and Research (SCAR) team - the team that safeguards Discord’s platform integrity.
• What You'll Be Doing Lead and mentor a team of data analysts, scientists, and researchers who investigate active threats, identify platform abuse vectors, and uncover adversarial patterns.
• What you should have 2+ years of people management experience leading technical teams, including engineers, data scientists, analysts, applied researchers, or equivalent.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills, with an ability to translate complex technical topics into clear takeaways for senior leadership.
• We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests, and helps developers build and grow their businesses.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• What you should have 2+ years of people management experience leading technical teams, including engineers, data scientists, analysts, applied researchers, or equivalent.
• 4+ years of experience working in a Trust & Safety domain, such as fraud, spam, scams, account compromise or other high-volume threats.
• Strong analytical problem-solving skills, with expertise in measurement and experimentation.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills, with an ability to translate complex technical topics into clear takeaways for senior leadership.
• Bonus Points Experience leveraging LLMs or AI agents for incident response, investigation automation, or signal triage.
• Experience tackling scaled abuse at large social platforms, marketplaces, or other high-volume consumer products.
• A relevant degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Benefits and Perks

• Bonus Points Experience leveraging LLMs or AI agents for incident response, investigation automation, or signal triage.
• The US base salary range for this full-time position is $220,000 to $275,000 + equity + benefits.
• Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include benefits.

Work Location and Schedule

This role is listed as Remote USA with location information shown as Remote USA. The employment type is Full Time.

About the Company

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