Senior Data Scientist, Trust & Safety - Singapore

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At TikTok, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the communities we serve.
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About Trust & Safety
Building a world where people can safely discover, create and connect. The Trust & Safety (T&S) team at TikTok helps ensure that our global online community is safe and empowered to create and enjoy content across all of our applications. We have invested heavily in human and machine-based moderation to remove harmful content quickly and often before it reaches our general community.

Responsibilities

1. Provide leadership and direction to a team of data scientists, guiding their professional growth and ensuring the successful delivery of projects and initiatives.
2. Develop comprehensive metrics and quantitative measurement framework to drive the improvement of the capability of removing harmful content in TikTok Video.
3. Lead the strategic planning and execution of short-term and long-term business plans through in-depth business analysis, industry studies and the study of market trends.
4. Refine and upgrade the content safety system for globalised products, incorporating statistical modeling methods to construct an efficient decision-making system that quantifies business tradeoffs.
5. Initiate analysis projects utilising a comprehensive understanding of content safety, and develop scalable solutions through data analysis, empowering various scenarios such as resource planning, automations in experimentation and decision rules, etc.
6. 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.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

1. Bachelor's degree or above with a solid foundation in statistical and data mining theories.
2. Solid experience in quantifying complex problems with many impacting factors, and using statistical methods to seek answers, such as designing experiments, making causal inference. Proficient in data analysis and statistical analysis tools such as SQL, Python, R, Excel, and Tableau.
3. Written and verbal communications skills to convey complicated processes and systems to business partners and senior leadership.
4. Acute ability to grasp company product-related industry technology development trends, and possess strong macro analysis and decision-making capabilities.
5. Relevant working experience in data science related industry, with rich experience in designing success metrics and A/B testing, with a deep understanding of risks in globalised products.
6. Experience leading a data scientist team, experience in coaching team members.
7. Experience collaborating with cross-functional and global teams. Strong communication and collaboration skills.
8. Ability to work in a fast-paced and fast-changing environment.

Preferred Qualifications

1. Bachelor degree in mathematics or statistics-related majors
2. Minimum 5+ years of relevant working experience in data science related industry
3. Over 2 years of experience leading a data scientist team, experience in coaching team members.

Trust & Safety recognises 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.