Data Scientist Lead - Trust & Safety - San Jose

About UsTikTok 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 its offices include New York, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join UsCreation is the core of TikTok's purpose. Our platform is built to help imagination thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make TikTok possible.

Together, we inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we all believe in and aim towards achieving every day. To us, every challenge, no matter how difficult, is an opportunity;

to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always. At TikTok, we create together and grow together.

That's how we drive impact for ourselves, our company, and the communities we serve. Join us. Our Trust & Safety team's commitment is to keep our online community safe.

We have invested heavily in human and machine-based moderation to remove harmful content quickly and often before it reaches our general community.

As a Data Scientist in TikTok's Trust and Safety team, you will be instrumental 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 use data and insights to form best-in-class heuristics to proactively detect and disarm safety incidents.

You will partner with a variety of stakeholders across the product, operations, policy, and engineering teams - both locally and globally.

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 and can also include (but is not limited to) bullying; hate speech;
• child safety; depictions of harm to self and others, and harm to animals. Responsibilities : - Own large-scale quantitative analysis projects from start to finish, including developing metrics, creating analytical frameworks and distilling complex results into clear and concise insights;
• Drive the strategic planning and execution of long-term business plans through in-depth business analysis, industry studies and the study of market trends;
• Design and establish indicator systems for safety and risks of the platform, monitor and optimize risk coverage in each link, measure the performance of content safety strategies and facilitate intricate decision-making;
• Proactively identify, detect, and mitigate risk to our community ecology, and help devise strategies to combat it;- Lead and collaborate with cross functional teams through communication of data supported insights.
• Minimum Qualifications : - BA / BS in a quantitative field such as Mathematics, Economics, Statistics, or other related fields;
• Experienced in adopting scientific methods to solve business problems;- Experienced in collaborating with cross-functional teams, communicating across effectively and efficiently;
• Experience in leading, managing and coaching team members. Preferred Qualifications : - Proficient in pulling large and complex data using SQL presenting it on data visualization tools;
• Ability to synthesize and communicate complex concepts and analyses in a coherent and comprehensive way. Trust & Safety recognizes that keeping our platform safe for 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.