Job Specifications
Company Description
LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We’re also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that’s built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed.
Join us to transform the way the world works.
Job Description
At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team.
This role can be hybrid in LinkedIn's Mountain View, CA or Washington DC office location.
This role will lead a high-impact investigations function in our Trust Investigations team focused on mitigating complex financially motivated abuse targeting LinkedIn and its members. This team has a unique remit applying analysis into technologies focused on abusing LinkedIn to the development of detections, mitigations and product interventions meant to address these emerging threats.
The role sits in a cybercrime pillar that is responsible for proactively anticipating, identifying, and disrupting abuse ecosystems —including but not limited to fake accounts (FAs), account rentals, account takeovers (ATOs), automation abuse and other forms of fraud. We work cross functionally with partners in Engineering, Data Science, Operations and policy applying investigation and intelligence outputs towards strategic product enhancements, and enforcement strategies to reduce member harm at scale.
If you have a strong background in leadership, threat intelligence, operational security, and off-platform investigations, this role provides an exciting opportunity to drive meaningful impact in member safety.
Key Responsibilities
Lead team responsible for investigations into complex cybercrime cases, including fraud, account takeovers, account rentals, and automation abuse.
Ensure accurate, efficient, and consistent delivery of investigative results and reports to partners and principals.
Develop processes to enable detection and analysis of new abuse tactics on and off the platform.
Scope and work with partners to ensure the delivery of adversary emulations to test defenses and improve mitigation strategies.
Establish strong relationships with internal and XFN peers in Trust Ops, Product, Engineering, Legal, and other teams ensure team outputs are meeting business needs..
Help guide strategy and Influence enhancements to products and enforcement measures based on investigations.
Build workflows, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and scalable frameworks to address key cybercrime risks.
Lead internal team efforts to introduce automation improvements to workflows, improve detection signals, and build dashboards for monitoring suspicious activities.
Present data-informed briefings to leadership and stakeholders on trends and threat actor behaviors.
Lead collection and summarization of team insights regarding evolving abuse tactics and share with Trust leadership to support informed decision-making.
Strengthen industry relationships via intelligence exchanges and knowledge sharing.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in cybersecurity, intelligence, computer science, or a technical field or equivalent experience.
1+ year(s) of management experience or 1+ year(s) of staff level engineering experience with management training.
5+ years of experience in threat intelligence or Trust & Safety investigations with a focus on off-platform abuse investigations.
Experience with OSINT techniques, digital evidence collection, and operational security.
Experience with surface and dark web targeting mechanisms and relevant monitoring tools.
Preferred Qualifications
Master’s degree in a relevant field such as cybersecurity or advanced technical discipline expertise.
2+ years of experience managing a trust investigations team
7+ years of experience in areas such as off-platform intelligence operations, automation abuse investigations, or comprehensive abuse investigations.
Advanced proficiency in Python, SQL, and link analysis tools for threat detection.
Knowledge of threat actor communication behavior (e.g., technical jargon or slang) on external platforms.
Strong communication and project management skills, including experience collaborating across technical and non-technical teams.
Capability to create high-quality intelligence deliverables for executive-level stakeholders.
Experience performing technical investigations such as packet capture and analysis; debugging web applications and analyzing HTTP requests; and u
About the Company
Founded in 2003, LinkedIn connects the world's professionals to make them more productive and successful. With more than 1 billion members worldwide, including executives from every Fortune 500 company, LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network. The company has a diversified business model with revenue coming from Talent Solutions, Marketing Solutions, Sales Solutions and Premium Subscriptions products. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, LinkedIn has offices across the globe..
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