Apple Ads, Policy and Compliance Analyst

Apple•Austin, TX

About The Position

Apple Ads brings a customer-centric approach to advertising, helping people find what they're looking for and advertisers grow their businesses. Our technology powers ads and sponsorships across Apple Services, including the App Store, Apple News, and MLS Season Pass. We prioritize user privacy, thoughtful ad integration, and delivering value for advertisers of all sizes. The Policy and Compliance Analyst will provide a technical perspective to the business operations team, supporting critical decisions in policy creation and enforcement, risk assessment, fraud mitigation, and platform policy compliance. This role requires significant collaboration with various Apple Ads teams, including business operations, policy, product, engineering, and privacy. The ideal candidate is comfortable handling large datasets, modeling, analysis, and presentations, with a strong understanding of market trends and competitive platforms. Strong research skills, critical thinking, and the ability to spot trends and interpret data are essential.

Requirements

3-5 years of industry experience (ad network, performance marketing, or other demonstrated analytical experience preferred).
Background in policy enforcement or digital fraud mitigation.
Experience delivering data-driven insights.
Strong research and evaluation skills for competitive platforms and markets.
Ability to perform data mining to investigate policy/fraud activities.
Proficiency in querying, modeling, slide preparation, and delivery.
Extensive, demonstrable quantitative experience.
SQL querying proficiency.
Bachelor's or Master's degree (CS or quantitative emphasis preferred, some academic experience with statistics preferred).

Nice To Haves

High attention to detail, organization, team-orientation, and ability to work under tight deadlines.
Excellent verbal, visual, and written communication skills.
Mastery of Keynote and Excel/Numbers.
Inquisitive with an ability to navigate ambiguity as it pertains to policy and regulations.
Ability to integrate new information and make decisions based on multiple factors and options.
Takes initiative, is self-directed, solutions-oriented, and keen to share knowledge with others.

Responsibilities

Serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in policy creation, enforcement, and risk analysis for advertising products and platforms.
Align business policy with partners across Apple and escalate concerns.
Manage policy and risk analysis for multiple countries and products.
Deliver policy insights and recommendations using first and third-party data.
Monitor and optimize policy effectiveness and analyses to maximize user experience, revenue, and performance.
Inform daily policy operations, processes, and customer communications.
Develop competitive platform analysis, outlining policy regulations and restrictions.
Develop and maintain centralized Ads policy documentation to serve as a department reference guide.
Conduct ad hoc scenario analysis in support of product, service, and policy initiatives.
Conduct ongoing analysis of policy, fraud trends, and platform/product susceptibility per market.
Coordinate and implement best practices between internal and external groups.
Support cross-functional teams executing manual ad review.
Monitor and report policy infringement or fraudulent trends.
Apply learnings and drive efficiencies in how Apple Ads maintains, creates, and enforces policy.
Take actions and build relationships as a primary stakeholder for compliance and fraud systems and tools.
Ensure platform initiatives are compliant with Apple policy at large.