Child Safety Team Lead, EMEA - Trust & Safety

TikTok's Global Child Safety Team (CST) serves as subject matter experts on the assessment and reporting of suspected child sexual exploitation happening on platform. Committed to keeping TikTok a safe and creative space for users of all ages, CST operates in a follow-the-sun model, providing coverage 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, reviewing incoming incidents and when appropriate, reporting those incidents to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children's (NCMEC) CyberTipline. From there, these reports are forwarded on to global law enforcement for review and enforcement.

About the role As a Child Safety Operations Lead within the Trust & Safety Team, you’ll be part of a global team that ensures the timely detection and removal of content across the broad spectrum of online child endangerment, such as child sexual abuse and exploitation. Through close partnerships with Legal, Policy, and Product & Process teams, you will manage global time-sensitive escalations, and child sexual exploitation and abuse incidents to protect our online community.

You will also work closely with internal teams to create and streamline business and operational processes, develop detailed documentation and process diagrams, and increase our overall operational efficiency to ensure our products are free of any violative content.

The team is seeking a candidate with a strong work ethic, excellent judgment, exceptional partnering skills and a passion for protecting children.

Note: This position will include reviewing content and writing policies for some materials that may be offensive or sensitive to some people.

What will I be doing? - You'll lead a team of Child Safety Operations Specialists, ensure the team's daily operational effectiveness, set goals for the team, and be responsible for team members' professional development. - Demonstrate operational excellence on a team that evaluates risk, threats, and user safety in time-critical escalations. - Lead in executing instant decision-making while analyzing a variety of factors that include imminence of danger, sensitivities, and graphic content and coordinate with a number of internal and external partners including law enforcement in an attempt to ensure user’s safety. - Be aware of and willing to operate in a work environment with sensitive content that includes child sexual abuse and exploitation, and other content that may be considered offensive or disturbing. - You'll lead escalations or urgent law enforcement requests, liaising with Product, Policy, Communications, and Legal teams whenever necessary. - You'll identify problems and issues across organizations and create programs and processes to solve them proactively. Establish regular reporting to keep stakeholders up to date on progress, findings, and recommendations. - You'll manage multiple interdependent projects of moderate to high complexity and scope. Work cross-functionally to ensure coordination and alignment on objectives and key results. - You'll enhance our operational workflows via process improvements and the identification of automation opportunities. Drive innovation regarding processes and best practices for implementing policies.