Responsibilities
About the Team As a Data Science Lead in TikTok's Trust and Safety team, you will lead a team to 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 lead TikTok LIVE Safety Experience priority while partnering with various stakeholders across the product, operations, policy, and engineering teams—both locally and globally. What will I be doing? - Lead Global Analytical Projects: Spearhead large-scale quantitative analysis projects from end to end — from designing complex metrics and evaluation frameworks to synthesizing multifaceted results into clear, actionable insights across diverse regional markets. - Strategic Business Planning Across Markets: Drive both short-term and long-term global strategic planning through advanced business analysis, industry benchmarking, and macro trend forecasting. Ensure alignment across key geographies, with a focus on Southeast Asia, North America, and Europe. - Risk Intelligence System Design: Architect global safety and risk indicator systems that address the unique content safety challenges in different markets. Monitor, measure, and optimize platform risk coverage with a focus on regulatory and cultural nuances. - Content Safety Strategy Leadership: Own the refinement of global content safety systems by integrating statistical modeling, automated decisioning, and business trade-off quantification. Lead scalable solutions for critical risk mitigation efforts. - Cross-Functional Leadership: Lead and collaborate with multi-regional cross-functional teams including product, policy, engineering, and operations. Ensure seamless communication of insights and drive unified decision-making at a global scale. - Specialized Risk Detection & Prevention: Proactively identify emerging risks to the platform ecosystem and design data-driven countermeasures. Leverage deep knowledge of international safety standards and local content sensitivities. - Scalable Infrastructure & Tooling: Develop reusable analytical methodologies and internal tools to empower global teams in areas such as resource allocation, experimentation automation, and policy enforcement decision engines. - Executive-Level Reporting & Influence: Provide strategic insights and recommendations to senior leadership and global Trust & Safety stakeholders, playing a pivotal role in shaping the macro-level direction of content governance.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications - 5+ years of leadership experience, including hiring and scaling high-performing Data Science teams. - 5+ years of Data Science experience in Consumer-Facing mobile or web internet industries where you have built social networking, video content applications or other consumer internet applications. Deep understanding of risks in globalised products, with experience in designing success metrics and A/B testing. - 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. - Bachelor's degree or above, preferably in mathematics or statistics-related majors, with a solid foundation in statistical and data mining theories. - Ability to translate technical analysis results into clear strategic recommendations and has successful experience in driving cross-functional collaboration in a fast-paced environment. - Acute ability to grasp company product-related industry technology development trends, and possess strong macro analysis and decision-making capabilities. Preferred Qualifications - 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.
