Discord is hiring a Threat Investigator Team Lead. This is a Remote (U.S.) role. 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.

Discord’s mission is to give people the power to create space to find belonging in their lives. Every day, millions of people trust Discord to be a place where they can talk, spend time together, and build community. Keeping that space safe starts with teams like ours.

Discord’s Violent Actors Team, part of the broader Threat Operations organization within Trust & Safety, identifies and disrupts violent and extremist actors and networks. As Threat Investigations Team Lead, you will manage and develop a team of investigators and analysts responsible for detecting, investigating, and disrupting ongoing and emerging threats.

You will be a player-coach: setting a high bar for investigative quality while staying close enough to the work to actively contribute, mentor investigators in developing their tradecraft and technical skills, and use your judgment and expertise to influence the team’s work.

This position is US-based and can be remote but if you live in the Bay Area, you’re welcome to work from the San Francisco office.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Manage, coach, and develop a small team of investigators and analysts, setting clear expectations and supporting their growth
• Own the team’s investigative quality, workload prioritization, queue health, and performance
• Serve as the first point of escalation for complex, ambiguous, or high-risk investigations
• Act as a player-coach: guide deep-dive network investigations and build the team’s tradecraft
• Translate investigative signals and subject-matter expertise into recommendations about threat priorities
• Coordinate with law enforcement, government, industry, and other external partners when investigations require it
• Support hiring, onboarding, performance management, and career development while fostering an inclusive team culture

What You Should Have:

• 5+ years of experience in threat intelligence, investigations, incident response, or a related field
• Deep expertise in at least one extremist or violent-threat-actor ecosystem
• Demonstrated ability to coach investigators, raise quality standards, and deliver constructive feedback
• Strong judgment in ambiguous, fast-changing situations – including defining scope and proposing solutions
• Fluency with investigative and case-management tooling, and the ability to use data and detection signals
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate complex and sensitive information
• A collaborative approach to cross-functional work, with the ability to build consensus and coordinate across teams

Bonus Points:

• Experience supporting teams that regularly work with sensitive or potentially disturbing material
• Additional language proficiency, particularly in languages relevant to high-harm threat-actor communities
• Experience presenting complex threat findings to senior leaders or external audiences

Salary: The base salary range for this full-time position is $132,000-$148,500 USD. This position will also be eligible for benefits and bonuses.

Source: Discord. Apply here: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/discord/jobs/8652914002?gh_src=ugpjiw8g2us