Disinformation Analyst

ActiveFence’s Information Operations team is working to detect and analyze disinformation campaigns for customers who want to protect their users and reputation from threat actors who actively seek to spread fake news, misinformation, and propaganda for political influence or other motives.We are looking for a Lead Generation Analyst. Candidates must be internet-fluent, with online resourcefulness, broad areas of interest, technical skills and hacker-like thinking to solve puzzles and lawfully access difficult-to-come-by open-source data from the deep-web.You’re a white-hat hacker or assume you could be a great one. You enjoy finding things online and nothing would stop you from finding answers. You are comfortable with data, a highly technical environment and high-stakes challenges.You will lead the team’s lead generation efforts.

• Curating and maintaining source development
• Curating and maintaining source database
• Maintaining automated lead generation engine and leading efforts on expansions and scaling
• Screening and prioritizing high value leads
• Testing new tools

Skills and qualifications:

• Familiarity with a wide range of platforms across the internet including identifying and learning new platforms
• A pro-active and independent thinker and doer.
• Consumer of news and information, well versed in current events and politics
• A Quick learner of new practice areas and technological tools.
• Highly methodological and organized
• WEBINT / OSINT experience (2+ years).
• Intelligence Background – an advantage.
• Scripting knowledge – an advantage.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Fluent English.
• Additional languages a plus, especially Chinese and Spanish

ActiveFence is the leading tool stack for Trust & Safety teams, worldwide. By relying on ActiveFence’s end-to-end solution, Trust & Safety teams – of all sizes – can keep users safe from the widest spectrum of online harms, unwanted content, and malicious behavior, including child safety, disinformation, fraud, hate speech, terror, nudity, and more. 

Using cutting-edge AI and a team of world-class subject-matter experts to continuously collect, analyze, and contextualize data, ActiveFence ensures that in an ever-changing world, customers are always two steps ahead of bad actors. As a result, Trust & Safety teams can be proactive and provide maximum protection to users across a multitude of abuse areas, in 70+ languages. 

Backed by leading Silicon Valley investors such as CRV and Norwest, ActiveFence has raised $100M to date; employs 300 people worldwide, and has contributed to the online safety of billions of users across the globe.