Data Scientist - Trust & Safety

About the Team TikTok is the leading destination for short-form video. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy.

The Trust & Safety team at TikTok helps ensure that our global community is safe and empowered to create and enjoy content across all of our applications. We have invested heavily in policy making, product development, and human and automatic moderation to protect billions of users around the globe from harmful content and abusive behaviors.

The mission of data science is to help Trust & Safety make many good decisions using data. As a member of our team, you are instrumental in ensuring that we use data to keep our users and community safe. You will help scope out projects, ideate on new strategies, and most importantly, use data to find insights, diagnose problems and tell compelling stories. You will partner with a variety of stakeholders across operations, policy, product and engineering teams - both locally and globally.

What You Will do: - Work with large and complex data sets to support project execution and strategic planning - Design and monitor core metrics; perform root cause analysis to explain drivers - Collaborate closely with the global Trust and Safety team, proactively providing insights and recommendations and overseeing the macro direction of the business - Influence stakeholders through data-based recommendations and mobilize cross-functional teams by telling compelling stories with data to drive business impact and innovative breakthrough - Use data and insights to form best-in-class heuristics to proactively detect and disarm safety incidents - Develop metrics and visualization tools to evaluate risks of the platform and the impact of safety strategies