Data Scientist, Video, Trust

Overview

As a Data Scientist in TikTok's Trust and Safety team, you will drive data-inspired decisions and form roadmaps in ensuring that TikTok Video remains a safe, trustworthy, and risk-free environment. You will diagnose, triage, and treat large-scale safety issues, scope projects, use ground-truth data to inform strategies, and influence product design. You will partner with stakeholders across product, operations, policy, algorithm, and engineering teams globally. You will work with stakeholders to implement strategies and design products to proactively detect and disarm safety incidents while protecting the creator experience with great efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Drive business development both short-term and long-term through in-depth business analysis, industry studies and market trends.
• Develop comprehensive metrics and a quantitative measurement structure through statistical modeling to understand video risk levels and creator experience.
• Utilise an understanding of content safety and creator experience to develop strategies through data analyses.
• Refine and upgrade the content safety system for globalized products, incorporating statistical modeling to construct an efficient decision-making system that quantifies business tradeoffs.
• Collaborate with the global Trust and Safety team, providing insights and recommendations, driving the implementation of data analysis value, and overseeing macro direction of the business.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above, preferably in mathematics, computer science, statistics, engineering, or related fields.
• 3+ years of experience in data science or quantitative analysis.
• 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 causation/correlation, decision trees, regression analysis, etc.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience collaborating with cross-functional and global teams. Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• 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.

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. 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 with our employees and across our functions in order to ensure a truly person-centred, innovative and integrated approach.

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