Game Security Team Lead

**Title**: Game Security Team Lead **Department**: Security **Location**: Fully remote **About CoinPoker** Welcome to CoinPoker, the innovative crypto-poker platform where advanced blockchain technology meets the thrilling world of online poker. At CoinPoker, we are revolutionizing the poker experience by offering fast, secure, and transparent gameplay. With recent substantial investment, we are poised to take over the online crypto-poker space and are expanding our team to support our growth. **The Opportunity** We are hiring a Team Lead - Game Integrity & Fraud Prevention to lead a team responsible for protecting the fairness, security, and integrity of our online gaming platform. This is a hands-on leadership role that combines people management, operational oversight, and investigative expertise, ensuring fraud, abuse, cheating, and emerging threats are identified, investigated, and resolved to the highest standard while continuously improving detection capabilities and team performance. We're looking for someone with high integrity, sound judgement, and a naturally investigative mindset who thrives on solving complex problems. You'll be detail-oriented, data-driven, and highly organised, with excellent communication skills and the ability to stay calm under pressure. Above all, you'll be adaptable in a fast-paced environment and genuinely passionate about protecting fair play, customer trust, and the overall integrity of the platform. **Key Responsibilities:** **Fraud & Integrity Investigations** Lead or supervise investigations involving: - Multi-accounting - Account sharing - Identity abuse - Payment fraud - Bonus abuse - Bot activity - Automated gameplay - Exploitation of game mechanics - Match manipulation - Collusion between users - Coordinated abuse networks - Suspicious behavioural patterns - Abuse of promotions or platform features Conduct investigations using multiple data sources, behavioural analysis, transaction history, gameplay telemetry, device intelligence, and internal tooling. **Risk Detection & Prevention** - Identify emerging fraud trends and new abuse methodologies. - Recommend new detection rules and monitoring strategies. - Collaborate with data science and engineering teams to improve automated detection capabilities. - Assist in developing risk scoring methodologies. - Validate effectiveness of new controls after implementation. **Cross-Functional Collaboration** Partner with teams including: - Product - Engineering - Data Science - Customer Support - Compliance - Information Security - Payments - Legal - Trust & Safety Provide operational feedback that improves platform integrity and customer experience. **Reporting & Analytics** Produce regular reporting covering: - Investigation volumes - Fraud trends - Operational KPIs - Detection performance - Emerging threats - Quality assurance findings - Team productivity - Risk exposure Present findings and recommendations to senior stakeholders. **Process Improvement** - Review existing investigation procedures. - Create and maintain standard operating procedures. - Drive automation opportunities. - Improve analyst workflows. - Identify tooling enhancements. - Support implementation of new technologies. **Role Requirements:** - 5+ years in Fraud Prevention, Game Integrity, Trust & Safety, Risk Operations, Cybersecurity, Financial Crime, or Investigations. - Knowledge of fraud processes, tools, emulators, VMs, and HUDs. Their application and risk categorisation - Experience in detecting RTAs Bot behaviours. - Building combination logics to identify potential fraud proactively - Knowledge of high-risk device indicators, including rooted devices - Previous experience leading operational teams. - Experience conducting complex behavioural investigations. - Experience working with large datasets and analytical tools. - Experience developing operational processes and documentation **Nice to have** **experience in one or more of the following:** - Online multip…