Quality Specialist, Child Safety - USDS

Responsibilities

About TikTok U.S. Data Security

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. U.S. Data Security ("USDS") is a subsidiary of TikTok in the U.

S. This new, security-first division was created to bring heightened focus and governance to our data protection policies and content assurance protocols to keep U.

S. users safe. Our focus is on providing oversight and protection of the TikTok platform and U.S. user data, so millions of Americans can continue turning to TikTok to learn something new, earn a living, express themselves creatively, or be entertained.

The teams within USDS that deliver on this commitment daily span across Trust & Safety, Security & Privacy, Engineering, User & Product Ops, Corporate Functions and more.

Why Join Us

Creation is the core of TikTok's purpose. Our platform is built to help imaginations 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.

As a member of the US Legal Policy Operations (LPO) Quality Insights team, you will be integral in ensuring that TikTok is a safe and trustworthy place for our community.

LPO QI is responsible for balancing corporate compliance responsibilities with the appropriate operational safeguards to protect our users' rights.

We are here to strike a scalable balance between what the law requires and what is operationally feasible to protect our users.

We are here to help all our Safety organization and wider company colleagues ensure that we are sustaining an equitable platform that inspires creativity across all markets.

Our team is a group of specialists covering Privacy, Intellectual Property & Identity, Law Enforcement Response, and Legal Investigations.

As a Quality Specialist, you will become a quality expert and work to support our Child Safety team through quality assessments, continuous improvement initiatives and much more.

Quality includes measuring not only individual operator performance but also evaluating the efficacy of our policies and processes to ensure general compliance.

You will be working with a variety of stakeholders, including Training and Documentation, Policy and Process, Tooling and Legal to ensure that Legal Policy Operations remains a vibrant organization.

In order to enhance collaboration and cross-functional partnerships, among other things, at this time, our organization follows a hybrid work schedule that requires employees to work in the office 3 days a week, or as directed by their manager / department.

We regularly review our hybrid work model, and the specific requirements may change at any time.

Responsibilities

• Conduct quality assessments encompassing complex policies and workflow processes for the US Child Safety Team
• Support the US Child Safety team by learning workflows and performing core work
• Remain up to date on relevant workflow changes, operational guidelines, and policy updates
• Track / flag trends and patterns within assessments and cascade back to Performance Insights Manager
• Use quantitative & qualitative research methods to perform post root cause analyses on high priority escalations
• Create and present case reviews that adapt to various audiences (leadership, specialists, etc.) to establish a unified message and an understanding of events and root causes
• Identify and recommend improvements to policies, processes, systems, and products that mitigates risk to TikTok
• Support the operational team on its quality initiatives, create data- driven insights on escalation trends, and maintain feedback loops to leverage these trends to mitigate risk
• Monitor quality assurance related metrics, familiar with data statistics and analysis
• Collaborate closely with data analytics team and engineering team to continually improve on tooling needs for QA metrics and data analysis
• Provide constructive feedback to Child Safety Team members and management regarding quality of work highlighting any identified risks

Our LPO Quality Insights team performs a critical function that supports our efforts to address objectionable or disturbing content.

Content that the Quality Specialist interacts with includes images, video, and text related to every-day life, but it can also include (but is not limited to) bullying;

hate speech; child abuse; sexual assault; torture; bestiality; self-harm; suicide; and murder.

It is possible that this role will be exposed to harmful content on a daily basis.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience moderating for Child Safety Response or 2+ years in Law Enforcement supporting Child Safety
• Experience in a work environment with sensitive content that includes child sexual abuse, exploitation and other material that may be considered offensive or disturbing
• Experience executing on repetitive core work tasks while maintaining attention to detail and keeping an eye out for potential process improvements
• Strong attention to detail, highly self-driven and results oriented
• Proven ability to assess risk and impact
• Experience working cross functionally with a variety of stakeholders in a fast-paced environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above
• Knowledge of child safety policies and / or legislation (e.g.,civil and criminal subpoenas, court orders, search warrants, NCMEC Reports)
• Experience conducting review of both live / historical user generated content with a detail-oriented approach and in accordance with team guidance for reporting to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC)
• Experience in quality analysis in the content moderation / trust & safety industry
• Passionate and willing to work in the digital media and entertainment industry
• 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.

Wellbeing Statement

Trust & Safety recognizes that keeping our platform safe for TikTok communities is no ordinary job. It can be rewarding, psychologically demanding, and emotionally taxing.

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 proceeding.

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.

D&I Statement

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.

Accommodation Statement

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 : / / shorturl.at / ktJP6

Data Security Statement

This role requires the ability to work with and support systems designed to protect sensitive data and information. As such, this role will be subject to strict national security-related screening.