Responsibilities
About the Team As a Data Scientist in TikTok's Trust and Safety team, you will drive data driven decisions and forming roadmaps in ensuring that TikTok 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, and engineering teams - both locally and globally. You will work with the stakeholders to implement strategies and design product to proactively detect and disarm safety incidents, while protecting creator experience. It is possible that this role will be exposed to harmful content as part of the core role/as part of project/ in response to escalation requests/by chance. Some content viewed may violate our community guidelines, which include but are not limited to bullying; hate speech; child abuse; sexual assault; torture; bestiality; self-harm; suicide; murder. Responsibilities: - Design and implement comprehensive metrics and quantitative measurement frameworks to evaluate and enhance the effectiveness of risk control policies; - Continuously refine measurement methodologies to ensure accurate tracking of risk control capabilities; - Lead short-term and long-term strategic planning by conducting in-depth business analysis, industry research, and market trend assessments; - Translate insights into actionable business plans to improve platform safety and policy operability; - Partner with stakeholders using data-driven approaches, ensuring alignment with business objectives; - Monitor policy impacts on risk control capabilities, leveraging statistical methods to establish an efficient decision-making system; - Abstract and standardize reusable analytical methodologies and tools to enhance team efficiency; - Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to provide actionable insights, drive data-informed strategies, and implement improvements; - Proactively communicate findings and recommendations to leadership, fostering a culture of data-inspired decision-making across the organization.
Qualifications
Minimum qualifications: - Bachelor's degree or above in mathematics or statistics-related majors, with a solid foundation in statistical, hypothesis testing theories and experimental design; - Solid experience in quantifying complex problems with many impacting factors, and use statistical methods to seek answers, such as designing experiments, making causal inference; - Proficient in data analysis and statistical analysis tools such as SQL, Python, R, Excel and Tableau; - 2+ years of experience in data science related industry, with rich experience in designing success metrics and A/B testing and a deep understanding of risks in globalized products. Preferred Qualifications: - Ability to translate technical findings into clear, strategic recommendations for non-technical stakeholders; - Proven track record of working cross-functionally to drive data-informed initiatives in fast-paced environments; - Acute ability to grasp company product-related industry technology development trends, and possess strong macro analysis and decision-making capabilities.
Job Information
【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $144000 - $329333 annually.
Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.
Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).
The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:
1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
3. Exercising sound judgment.
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.
TikTok Accommodation
TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://tinyurl.com/RA-request
