Blizzard Jobs – Senior Risk Analyst

Job Description:

Blizzard Entertainment is looking for a highly motivated and experienced individual to join its risk operations group. The group’s duties include fraud mitigation, research into game exploitation and hacking and ensuring game integrity and account security for all of Blizzard Entertainment’s online games.

Job Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with cross-functional groups such as product development, marketing, finance, quality assurance (QA), and customer service to enhance tools, system functionality, and fraud detection methods while increasing automation and providing a better experience for our users.
• Take initiative to start, manage and maintain high profile anti-fraud or anti-cheat projects from start to end
• Manage and respond to escalations from internal and external parties within designated service levels.
• Contribute to the anti-fraud and/or anti-cheat community
• Work with the Risk Managers to identify training needs for the Risk Analysts as well as organize corresponding trainings
• Cooperation with Risk Management, Payment Analytics Managers and Risk Project Leads on KPIs and reporting
• Mentor Associate Risk Analysts and Risk Analysts
• Educate internal and external parties on fraud and security issues in online gaming.
• Find and prevent fraud and exploitation by reviewing accounts and transactions.
• Identify trends and patterns, summarize key findings, and recommend anti-fraud and game integrity processes and system enhancements.

Job Requirements:

Qualification & Experience:

• Knowledge of current trends in online security space
• A minimum of five (5) years of experience in the fraud prevention / game integrity fields
• Passion for video games
• Knowledge of *nix operating systems
• Strong self-learning abilities
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Excel
• Knowledge of programming in python, perl or other languages
• Bachelor’s or equivalent work experience
• Strong written and verbal communications skills in English

Job Details:

Company: Blizzard

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: Buffalo, NY, US

Application Deadline: N/A

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