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TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok has global offices including Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul and Tokyo.
Why Join Us
Creation 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 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.
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. It 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
- Lead the strategic planning and execution of both short-term and long-term business plans by conducting thorough business analysis.
- Develop comprehensive metrics and quantitative measurement framework to drive the improvement of the capability of removing harmful content in TikTok 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 department, actively sharing insights and recommendations, and driving the implementation of data-driven insights to foster a culture of data-inspired decision-making throughout the organization.
- Provide leadership and direction to a team of data scientists, guiding their professional growth and ensuring the successful delivery of projects and initiatives.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or above in mathematics, computer science, statistics, engineering, or related fields.
- Experience in data science-related industry, with rich experience in designing success metrics and A/B testing.
- 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 statistical techniques, such as causation/correlation, decision trees, regression analysis, etc.
- Written and verbal communications skills to convey complicated process and systems to business partners and senior leadership.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Minimum 5+ years of relevant working experiences
- Experiences in leading a team
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional and global teams. Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced and fast-changing environment.
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.
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 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/cdpT2
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【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $201000 - $395280 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.
Our company benefits are designed to convey company culture and values, to create an efficient and inspiring work environment, and to support our employees to give their best in both work and life. We offer the following benefits to eligible employees:
We cover 100% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, approximately 75% premium coverage for dependents and offer a Health Savings Account(HSA) with a company match. As well as Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life and AD&D insurance plans. In addition to Flexible Spending Account(FSA) Options like Health Care, Limited Purpose and Dependent Care.
Our time off and leave plans are: 10 paid holidays per year plus 17 days of Paid Personal Time Off (PPTO) (prorated upon hire and increased by tenure) and 10 paid sick days per year as well as 12 weeks of paid Parental leave and 8 weeks of paid Supplemental Disability.
We also provide generous benefits like mental and emotional health benefits through our EAP and Lyra. A 401K company match, gym and cellphone service reimbursements. The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
