TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok has global offices including Los Angeles, San Jose, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul and Tokyo. Why Join Us Creation is the core of TikTok's purpose. Our platform is built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make TikTok possible. Together, we inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we all believe in and aim towards achieving every day. To us, every challenge, no matter how difficult, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always. At TikTok, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the communities we serve. Join us. Our Trust & Safety team's commitment is to keep our online community safe. We have invested heavily in human and machine-based moderation to remove harmful content quickly and often before it reaches our general community. As a Senior Data Scientist in TikTok's Trust and Safety team, you will be instrumental in ensuring that TikTok remains a safe, trustworthy, and risk-free environment. By implementing your domain knowledge, you will help diagnose, triage, and treat large-scale safety issues. You will scope out projects, use ground-truth data to inform strategies, and use data and insights to form best-in-class heuristics to proactively detect and disarm safety incidents. You will partner with a variety of stakeholders across the product, operations, policy, and engineering teams - both locally and globally. Responsibilities: - Work closely with product managers, engineers, and other cross-functional teams to identify business opportunities and develop data-driven product initiatives. - Analyze large data sets using statistical techniques to generate insights and make predictions. - Design and implement reporting dashboards and the associated data pipeline to deliver insights and improve the workflows of internal teams. - Build predictive models to optimize core Trust and Safety metric performance and improve the trust of the platform. - Develop tools and frameworks to support A/B testing and experimentation to drive growth. - Work with data engineers to develop data pipelines and ensure data quality. - Stay up-to-date with the latest data science techniques and technologies. - Communicate complex findings and insights to stakeholders across the organization.- Master's or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or related fields. - At least 5 years of experience in a data science role, preferably in a product-focused environment. - Expertise in statistical techniques, such as causation/correlation, decision trees, regression analysis etc. - Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, R, and SQL. - Experience with data visualization tools and techniques. - Strong communication and collaboration skills. - Experience with A/B testing and experimentation. - Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. - Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently. - Experience working with stakeholders and teams based in APAC time zones. 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. TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at ts.accommodations@tiktok.com
