Fraud Threat Team Lead
About the Position
Alice is seeking a Fraud Team Leader to join and lead analysts within the Fraud group. In this role, you will guide a team of analysts in researching, evaluating, and analyzing fraud detection mechanisms, abuse vectors, and platform vulnerabilities across a wide range of online services.
You will set the team's research direction, generate strategic insights from diverse intelligence sources, and oversee OSINT investigations that identify emerging fraud tactics and behavioral vulnerabilities. Beyond hands-on research and analysis, you will drive the use of technical tools and infrastructure to support investigations, simulate real-world abuse scenarios, and scale the team's fraud research capabilities. You will be accountable for delivering high-quality, actionable intelligence and mitigation recommendations to clients.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of fraud threat analysts, including task allocation, prioritization, and performance feedback.
- Set research priorities and methodologies in alignment with client needs and business objectives.
- Oversee and conduct investigations into fraud methods across web and mobile platforms (social media, forums, apps, and the dark web).
- Design and guide the execution of fraud research methodologies, including technical validation of abuse scenarios.
- Own the strategy for building, maintaining, and operating research environments and technical tooling that support fraud investigations and red team activities.
- Analyze large datasets, telemetry, and technical artifacts, and guide the team in uncovering patterns and delivering actionable insights.
- Serve as a primary point of contact for clients and internal stakeholders, presenting findings and translating research into strategic guidance.
Requirements
Required Skills & Experience
- 5+ years of experience in intelligence analysis, CTI, fraud detection, security research, or a similar technical investigative role.
- 2+ years of experience leading or mentoring analysts, either in a formal management role or as a technical/team lead.
- Proven ability to manage multiple projects, set priorities, and deliver under tight timelines.
- Strong understanding of OPSEC principles and experience implementing them at a team level.
- Strong knowledge of WEBINT and OSINT, including social media, apps, and the dark web.
- Comfortable working with technical environments, logs, APIs, automation, and investigative tooling.
- Fluent in English (additional languages are a plus).
About Alice
THE CHALLENGES ALONG THE WAY
1. Being Both Strategist and Executioner
One of the hardest parts of this role is that you’re both the visionary and the builder; the one drawing the map and paving the road.
That means switching between high-level strategy and hands-on experimentation daily, and doing it while bringing others along with you. There’s no playbook for this kind of work. You’re paving an unpaved road, one small experiment at a time.
2. Balancing Security and Innovation
ActiveFence is the leading provider of security and safety solutions for online experiences, safeguarding more than 3 billion users, top foundation models, and the world’s largest enterprises and tech platforms every day.
As a trusted ally to major technology firms and Fortune 500 brands that build user-generated and GenAI products, ActiveFence empowers security, AI, and policy teams with low-latency Real-Time Guardrails and a continuous Red Teaming program that pressure-tests systems with adversarial prompts and emerging threat techniques. Powered by deep threat intelligence, unmatched harmful-content detection, and coverage of 117+ languages, ActiveFence enables organizations to deliver engaging and trustworthy experiences at global scale while operating safely and responsibly across all threat landscapes.