Deceptive Behaviors Policy Lead - Trust and Safety

In addition, this role will work closely with teams that manage high-risk events including elections, civil unrest, and conflict environments.

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. This may occur in the form of images, video, and text related to every-day life, but 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:

• Develop TikTok's overall policy strategy and roadmap related to Deceptive Behaviors on TikTok and lead development of global platform policies (e.g., in the form of policy titles, operational guidance documents).
• Lead a team of policy managers focused on Deceptive Behaviors.
• Partner closely with Global Security, Threat Research & Intelligence to guide TikTok's investigation and enforcement teams to ensure the timely detection and removal of Deceptive Behaviors activity.
• Engage with Legal and Public Policy teams to ensure compliance with key regulations and be a T&S point of contact for any potential new regulations.
• Act as a global escalation point of contact for Deceptive Behaviors, and align all stake-holders and leadership to respond to escalations and enable emergency policy decisions.
• Act as the representative with third party threat intelligence vendors, and work cross functionally to determine vendor roadmap and assess individual vendors' value.
• Remain up-to-date on industry trends and emerging issues in the misrepresentation space and design policies to combat them.
• Serve as a advisor to fellow Policy colleagues on topics that benefit from technical expertise (e.g., foreign influence operations) and be a key point of contact on behalf of the Policy team for our technical XFN partners (e.g. Security, Product & Investigations).

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in security, government, or technology focused on addressing misrepresentation, inauthentic behavior, and/or influence operations at scale, and Bachelors degree in political science, government, cybersecurity communications, law or related field.
• 3+ years experience of leading a team.
• Expertise on actors who may engage in coordinated misinformation campaigns, influence operations, and/or inauthentic behavior on social media.
• Content knowledge around misinformation narratives, influence operations, and inauthentic behavior on social media.
• Experience with international technology/online content and /social media issues.
• Ability to quickly identify problems, thoroughly analyze them and deliver feasible policy solutions.
• Technical fluency to understand and analyze technical investigative reports to provide accurate policy guidance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in launching new strategies and Zero-to-One initiatives.
• Expertise related to adversarial actors and influence operations in multiple markets and regions.
• Previous experience at a fast-moving internet platform company.

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $139650 - $256500 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.