Responsibilities
About the Team As a Data Scientist in TikTok's Trust and Safety team, you will drive data-inspired decisions and form roadmaps in ensuring that TikTok Live remains a safe, trustworthy, and risk-free environment. By implementing your domain knowledge, you will help diagnose, triage, and treat large-scale safety issues. You will scope out projects, use ground-truth data to inform strategies and influence product design. You will partner with a variety of stakeholders across the product, operations, policy, algorithm, and engineering teams - both locally and globally. You will work with stakeholders to implement strategies and design products to proactively detect and disarm safety incidents, while protecting creator experience with great efficiency. Responsibilities - Drive the strategic planning and execution of short-term and long-term business plans through in-depth business analysis. - Develop comprehensive metrics and quantitative measurement structure through statistical modeling methods to develop understanding of LIVE risk levels and remove harmful content in LIVE. - Refine and upgrade the live safety system for globalized products, incorporating statistical modeling methods to construct an efficient decision-making system that quantifies business tradeoffs. - Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams within the Trust and Safety team, proactively providing and communicating insights and recommendations, driving the implementation of data insights, and promoting the data-inspired decision-making process in the organization.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications - Bachelor's degree or above, preferably in mathematics, computer science, statistics, engineering, or related fields. - 3+ years of experience in data science or quantitative analysis. - Proficient in data analysis and statistical analysis tools such as SQL and Python. - Experience in quantifying complex problems using A/B testing and other statistical skills, such as causation/correlation, decision trees, regression analysis, etc. Preferred Qualifications - Experience collaborating with cross-functional and global teams. Strong communication and collaboration skills. - Your ability to work in a high tempo environment, adapt, respond to day-to-day challenges of the role. - Your resilience and commitment to self-care to manage the emotional demands of the role.
Job Information
About TikTok
TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and we also have offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.
Why Join Us
Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we work towards every day.
We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.
Diversity & Inclusion
TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.
Trust & Safety
TikTok recognises that keeping our platform safe for the TikTok communities is no ordinary job which can be both rewarding and psychologically demanding and emotionally taxing for some. This is why we are sharing the potential hazards, risks and implications in this unique line of work from the start, so our candidates are well informed before joining.
We are committed to the wellbeing of all our employees and promise to provide comprehensive and evidence-based programs, to promote and support physical and mental wellbeing throughout each employee's journey with us. We believe that wellbeing is a relationship and that everyone has a part to play, so we work in collaboration and consultation with our employees and across our functions in order to ensure a truly person-centred, innovative and integrated approach.
