Data Scientist

The Business Risk Integrated Control (BRIC) team of TikTok, is missioned to: - Protect TikTok users, including and beyond content consumers, creators, advertisers. - Secure platform health and authenticity of community experience. - Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to improve TikTok infrastructures, services, tools and algorithms, towards a higher standard of privacy and security. The BRIC team works to measure and minimize the damage implied by inauthentic behaviors on TikTok and its extended platforms, covering multiple classical and novel integrity/security areas such as fake accounts, fake traffic, spam, scraping, cyberbullying, live room risks, incentive fraud, monetization abuse, etc. Job Responsibilities: - Analyze business and security data, uncover evolving attack motion, identify weaknesses and opportunities in risk defense solutions, explore new space from the discoveries; - Define risk control measurements. Quantify, generalize and monitor risk related business and operational metrics. Align risk teams and their stakeholders on risk control numeric goals, promote impact-oriented, data-driven data science practices for risks. Detect abnormal changes in metrics and be able to build processes to analyze the root cause of such changes; - Design and build A/B experiments to satisfy various business needs. Build rules and models to respond to and mitigate business risks for different TikTok products. Such risks include and are not limited to abusive accounts, fake engagements, spammy redirection, scraping, fraud, etc. - Own technical measurement and evaluation of the risk level of a specific business area (e.g. short video platform, user growth, live streaming, etc). Define and coordinate planning, execution and generalization of risk solutions. - Drive and take responsibility for exercising data science best practices around risk analytics and modeling across all stakeholders. Leverage data to bridge the collaboration between such stakeholders.Qualifications:Minimum Qualifications - Final year or recent graduate with a background in computer science, statistics, or other relevant, machine-learning-heavy majors. - Proficiency in data science analytical tools, such as SQL, R and Python. - Possess at least one advantage among risk control, statistical problem solving, measurement-and-experiment-driven product iteration. - Strong ownership, proactive and skillful communication, ability to handle high complexity, urgency, cross-functional alignment. Preferred Qualifications - Industry experience in relevant data science domains. Example topics include (but not limit to): search and ranking, recommendation, ads/monetization, anti-fraud/abuse, financial risks. - Good at telling data storiesAbout TikTokTikTok 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 UsInspiring 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 & InclusionTikTok 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.