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Responsibilities

About the team
We are part of Global Monetization Product and Technology-Business Integrity-Governance. The Incident Response and Signal Operations team safeguards the advertising platform by identifying and mitigating ecosystem risks surfaced through public, government relations, legal, and external user signals. We balance risk management with user experience to enable the healthy growth of TikTok Ads, leveraging AI agents, machine learning, automation, and strategic rule engines to build intelligent, scalable risk solutions while continuously strengthening moderation models through rigorous testing and optimization.

Responsibilities
- Interpret, analyze, and assess risks, emergency situations, and potential challenges. Develop and implement risk control operational plans while balancing business revenue objectives with effective risk control.
- Explore, design, and iterate AI/Agent-assisted operational workflows, including automated risk signal discovery, evidence extraction, case triage, policy reasoning, anomaly monitoring, and strategy recommendation. Define evaluation criteria and feedback loops for AI-enabled governance solutions, including precision, recall, operational efficiency, and business impact.
- Strategize, implement, and maintain risk program initiatives that adhere to organizational objectives. Take ownership of the project outcomes by setting clear targets, tracking progress, and holding the line to keep critical initiatives on track.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across product, engineering, algorithms, and policy to improve existing systems and implement new solutions to reduce and mitigate risk.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
- Thrives in fast-paced, ambiguous environments and can lead cross-functional initiatives end-to-end.
- Skilled at communicating and influencing across teams and regions; able to balance partner objectives with risk reduction to forge win-win outcomes.
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Data Science, Business Analytics, or a related quantitative field.
- 1+ years of experience in either:
- Risk management - Content, account, ads, fraud, advertiser integrity, or post-conversion risk, with strong risk sensitivity and rapid response; or
- Strategy/management consulting - Proven ability to distill competing stakeholder needs into clear strategic priorities and actionable next steps.

Preferred Qualifications
- Strong proficiency in data-driven analysis and statistical methods, with hands-on SQL and/or Python experience to diagnose problems, evaluate strategies, and inform decisions.
- Practical experience with AI/LLM applications - including prompt engineering, AI-assisted analysis, workflow automation, agent-based tools, or human-in-the-loop review systems.

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $108000 - $208800 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.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;

2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and

3. Exercising sound judgment.

Responsibilities

Qualifications

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
- Thrives in fast-paced, ambiguous environments and can lead cross-functional initiatives end-to-end.
- Skilled at communicating and influencing across teams and regions; able to balance partner objectives with risk reduction to forge win-win outcomes.
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Data Science, Business Analytics, or a related quantitative field.
- 1+ years of experience in either:
- Risk management - Content, account, ads, fraud, advertiser integrity, or post-conversion risk, with strong risk sensitivity and rapid response; or
- Strategy/management consulting - Proven ability to distill competing stakeholder needs into clear strategic priorities and actionable next steps.

Preferred Qualifications
- Strong proficiency in data-driven analysis and statistical methods, with hands-on SQL and/or Python experience to diagnose problems, evaluate strategies, and inform decisions.
- Practical experience with AI/LLM applications - including prompt engineering, AI-assisted analysis, workflow automation, agent-based tools, or human-in-the-loop review systems.

About TikTok

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video and our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy.

Size: 10,000+ employees
Industry: Technology: Consumer Internet

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