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The Associate Director, Game Security Operations leads two critical disciplines within the Game Security organization: operational enforcement and threat intelligence. This role is responsible for the daily effectiveness, strategic development, and cross-functional alignment of threat intelligence and enforcement capabilities across Activision titles. This leader ensures high-quality intelligence feeds engineering and product teams, enforcement pipelines operate at scale, and the studio’s security posture stays ahead of adversarial actors such as cheat developers, exploit sellers, fraud networks, bot operators, and other abuse ecosystems.
Job Responsibility:
Serve as the operational leader for Enforcement Operations and Threat Intelligence
Translate intelligence findings and enforcement trends into clear recommendations for priorities, scope, and risk posture
Act as a key advisor to the Sr. Director on adversarial shifts, operational gaps, resourcing needs, and long-term program maturity
Coordinate with Ricochet team leadership to express requirements, validate operational feasibility, and advocate for tooling or workflow improvements
Lead the team responsible for identifying, analyzing, and reporting on threats across cheat ecosystems
Ensure that intelligence is timely, actionable, and packaged appropriately for engineering countermeasures, product feature planning, enforcement decisions, and executive awareness
Cultivate external intelligence partnerships with platforms, researchers, vendors, industry coalitions, and law enforcement
Oversee enforcement workflows, ensuring accurate, scalable, and defensible actions against cheating, exploit abuse, botting, and fraud
Maintain clear SOPs, quality controls, documentation standards, and operational metrics
Collaborate with Data Science and Engineering to refine detection models, thresholds, heuristics, and enforcement systems
Partner with Player Support, Legal, and Comms to support enforcement messaging, appeals processes, and policy interpretations
Lead operational readiness for Team Ricochet
Develop and own KPIs and reporting for enforcement effectiveness, intelligence value, operational stability, and adversarial ecosystem impact
Continually establish and improve processes to meet the requirements of Ricochet Anti-Cheat
Establish career pathways, training programs, and skill development frameworks
Foster a culture of analytical rigor, execution excellence, and high-accountability operations
Requirements:
10+ years of experience in Game Security
5+ years of experience in Anti-Cheat Operations
5+ years of experience in Threat Intelligence
3+ years of experience establishing and leading teams in operations and/or intelligence
Deep understanding of cheat-related risks and threats at scale
Degree in Cybersecurity or equivalent experience
Strong leadership & communications skills
Ability to translate strategic goals to tactical processes and objectives
What we offer:
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