Senior Intelligence Analyst
Alterya by Chainalysis is an AI-powered crypto fraud prevention tool designed to safeguard customers from authorized push-payment (APP) fraud and secure platforms with advanced threat intelligence.
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About Alterya by Chainalysis
Alterya by Chainalysis connects crypto fraud across financial identifiers to block scams instantly. It safeguards customers from authorized push-payment (APP) fraud and secures platforms with AI-powered threat intelligence. The service detects and blocks fraudulent payments before funds leave a customer's account, monitors over $8B in monthly transactions, and protects over 100M users. It helps businesses grow by reducing false declines and increasing approval rates, thereby building customer trust and ensuring compliance with fraud management regulations. Alterya provides 360° protection from scams and money mules by automatically preventing payments to scammers, identifying fraudulent accounts during KYC processes, linking scam activity across networks with reliable intelligence, and tracking fraudulent activity on the platform.
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About the Role
You'll collect, analyze, and produce intelligence across the crypto-services ecosystem, working at the hardest edges of attribution and acting as a force multiplier for the team. You'll design AI and automation that multiply the whole team's output, set the analytic standard, shape what the team collects, and level up the analysts around you. You'll join a fast-moving, globally distributed team of analysts collaborating across time zones, both async and in real time, holding each other to a high bar. You'll take ownership of attribution for the most complex, high-stakes parts of the ecosystem, mentor other analysts, contribute analyses that feed products and customers, and work toward becoming a certified cryptocurrency professional across all Chainalysis certifications.
Requirements
- Elite potential and a proven track record with exceptional aptitude, judgment, and work ethic
- 5+ years of strong analytic or investigative work, including leading hard problems end to end
- Strong research instincts and analytic rigor
- Initiative to set the agenda and drive what the team should be working on
- Adaptability and comfort with ambiguity in a fast-moving space
- AI-forward instincts and ability to build automation to scale work
- Comfort working with data; blockchain forensics experience a plus
- Excellent writing and communication
Responsibilities
- Own attribution for the most complex, high-stakes parts of the ecosystem, and set the standard for how it's done
- Design and lead the AI/automation that scales attribution across the team
- Shape collection strategy — what data is needed and how to get it
- Mentor analysts and raise the team's tradecraft
- Contribute analyses and insights that feed products and customers
- Become a certified cryptocurrency professional across all Chainalysis certifications