Lead Data Analyst,Risk Analytics

  • Full-time

Company Description

About Grab and Our Workplace

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp. From getting your favourite meals delivered to helping you manage your finances and getting around town hassle-free, we've got your back with everything. In Grab, purpose gives us joy and habits build excellence, while harnessing the power of Technology and AI to deliver the mission of driving Southeast Asia forward by economically empowering everyone, with heart, hunger, honour, and humility.

Job Description

Get to Know the Team The Integrity team is dedicated to Trust, Identity, and Safety, safeguarding our users & transactions on Grab. We leverage our expansive datasets to address critical challenges, protecting millions of users and transactions from sophisticated fraud, systemic identity abuse, and severe safety and content violations. Our core mission involves analyzing highly ambiguous threat patterns, architecting advanced anomaly detection, and ideating on novel signals to detect systemic risks. We rely on our Lead Analysts to design the overarching analytical strategies and leverage next-generation tools—such as end-to-end agentic workflows and auto-adaptive feedback loops—to keep Grab ahead of evolving threats.

Get to Know the Role Reporting to the Analytics Manager, you will be a strategic partner accountable for driving Trust, Identity, and Safety outcomes for multiple Problem Space Teams (PSTs) and strategic cross-functional initiatives. You will fully own complex, open-ended business problems. You will act as the architect of our risk detection strategies, expertly applying advanced AI methodologies, system-thinking, and foundational data excellence to build highly resilient, automated defenses.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

  • Fully own highly ambiguous, open-ended risk problems from problem framing to organizational impact, delivering exemplary solutions that redefine how we address platform integrity.

  • Architect the data strategies for building advanced anomaly detection systems, ideating on novel signals for sophisticated threats spanning coordinated content abuse, complex identity rings, and systemic safety risks.

  • Leverage end-to-end agentic systems and Auto-Adaptive loops as powerful analytical instruments to create self-optimizing feedback loops for risk labeling and dynamic policy rules.

  • Analyze the most complex and ambiguous threat patterns, proposing novel analytical and technical solutions that go beyond common industry practices.

  • Actively advise and secure buy-in from senior leadership on complex, tactical trade-offs, balancing short-term risk noise management with long-term transformational strategies.

  • Take leadership of our foundational data strategy and architectural efficiency, ensuring deep data governance, pipeline reliability, and robust architecture so that our advanced AI tools amplify our capabilities rather than our flaws.

  • Coach peers and junior team members, up-leveling the team's domain knowledge across various safety and risk vectors while implementing new technical frameworks and AI productivity tools across the organization.

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience in data-related or quantitative fields within complex digital or risk ecosystems.

  • A Bachelor's Degree (or higher) in Analytics, Statistics, Computer Science, or Engineering.

  • Advanced expertise in AI/ML, System-Thinking, and Data Architecture, enabling you to pioneer the use of the latest technologies to enhance the team's risk detection output.

  • Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills; ability to build trust with cross-functional stakeholders and influence senior leadership on overarching risk strategies.

  • [Desirable] Domain expertise in Trust, Identity, and Safety, with the ability to differentiate tactical trade-offs while maintaining alignment to the broader organizational vision.

Additional Information

Life at Grab

We care about your well-being at Grab, here are some of the global benefits we offer:

  • We have your back with Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
  • With GrabFlex, create a benefits package that suits your needs and aspirations.
  • Celebrate moments that matter in life with loved ones through Parental and Birthday leave, and give back to your communities through Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave
  • We have a confidential Grabber Assistance Programme to guide and uplift you and your loved ones through life's challenges.
  • Balancing personal commitments and life's demands are made easier with our FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours

What We Stand For At Grab

We are committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that provides equal opportunity for Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. We consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, race, religion, age, gender, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.

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