Your Mission

Blizzard Entertainment is looking for a highly motivated individual to join its Game Security Operations group. The group’s core duties include fraud mitigation, ensuring game and service integrity, research and investigation into game exploitation and abuse/cheating, investigating account takeovers, and account security for all of Blizzard Entertainment’s online games and services. In short, keeping our games and services free of anyone who may want to disrupt them..

Location fixed:

This role is anticipated to be a hybrid work position, with some work on-site and some work-from-home. The potential home studio for this role is Irvine, CA, or Austin, TX.

What you bring to the table:

Find and prevent fraud by reviewing transactions and accounts
Find, investigate, and enforce our policies regarding in-game exploitation, cheating, and exploitation for our games and services
Identify trends and patterns, summarize key findings, and recommend anti-fraud and game-integrity processes and system enhancements
Manage and respond to escalations from internal and external parties within designated service levels

Minimum requirements

Experience

Knowledge of current trends in in-game exploitation and cheating and/or online fraud

Knowledge and skills

Strong written and verbal communication skills in English
Knowledge of MS Office, especially of MS Excel
Passion for video games

Bonus points

Experience

Experience working in the video gaming industry
Experience with SQL and databases, especially with Google Cloud Platform’s BigQuery
Experience with Splunk and SPL
Experience with scripting/programming languages like Python

Knowledge and skills

Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, or related disciplines
Familiarity with Machine Learning
Proficiency with languages other than English
Knowledge and/or experience with video game cheating/exploitation, fraud investigations
Current player of Blizzard games

Our World

Activision Blizzard, Inc., is one of the world's largest and most successful interactive entertainment companies and is at the intersection of media, technology and entertainment. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty®, World of Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, Candy Crush™ and Bubble Witch™. Our combined entertainment network delights hundreds of millions of monthly active users in 196 countries, making us the largest gaming network on the planet!

Our ability to build immersive and innovative worlds is only enhanced by diverse teams working in an inclusive environment.  We aspire to have a culture where everyone can thrive in order to connect and engage the world through epic entertainment. We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve got our employees covered!

The videogame industry and therefore our business is fast-paced and will continue to evolve. As such, the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners.

We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.  

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable assistance to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you are a disabled individual requiring an accommodation to apply for an open position, please email your request to accommodationrequests@activisionblizzard.com. General employment questions cannot be accepted or processed here. Thank you for your interest. 

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, among other characteristics. 

Rewards

We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve got our employees covered! Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:

Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance;
401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching;
Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave;
Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others;
If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.

Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary full-time employees and interns with the Company. You can learn more by visiting https://www.benefitsforeveryworld.com/.

In the U.S., the standard base pay range for this role is $21.63 - $40.02 Hourly. These values reflect the expected base pay range of new hires across all U.S. locations. Ultimately, your specific range and offer will be based on several factors, including relevant experience, performance, and work location. Your Talent Professional can share this role’s range details for your local geography during the hiring process. In addition to a competitive base pay, employees in this role may be eligible for incentive compensation. Incentive compensation is not guaranteed. While we strive to provide competitive offers to successful candidates, new hire compensation is negotiable.

Game Security Analyst