Content Risk Evaluation Team Lead (Mandarin Speaking) - Safety Model Operations - Kuala Lumpur
- Location
- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Salary range
- Not stated
- Workplace
- In office
- Level
- Frontline team lead
- Job family
- Investigations
- Posted
- Recently
The T&S Network estimates this role to be M1, Supervisor / Team Lead. We don't yet know typical pay for this level in Malaysia. Most of our pay data comes from US roles. If you work in Trust & Safety in Malaysia, add your pay to help others. Key skills at this level: accountable for a named group's output, not only their own, allocates work and coverage against demand that moves hour to hour, and coaches on decision quality using specific cases, not general encouragement.
Why this level
Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: the posting states the level in its title · asks for 2+ years · the title reads as M1 · manages people.
The role, in T&S terms
Written by the T&S Network from TikTok's posting.
Leads a team of content risk evaluation specialists on TikTok's Safety Model Operations team, which builds and maintains ML models and operational processes behind Trust & Safety systems. The role monitors user and producer-generated content for explicit, implicit and borderline risks, and closes the feedback loop between human review judgments and automated safety models.
What you'd do
- Manage, mentor and set direction for a team of content risk evaluation specialists.
- Turn regulations and platform policies into actionable review guidelines and maintain a case database for consistent judgments.
- Monitor UGC and PGC for explicit, implicit and borderline risks and extract their characteristics.
- Run quick responses to safety emergencies, decide what comes first and coordinate teams across functions to resolve them.
- Produce data-driven risk assessment reports that inform platform rules and review strategy.
- Work with algorithm and data science teams on evaluation standards and on helping models handle edge cases.
What it asks for
- Bachelor's degree or higher required.
- At least 2 years of team management experience.
- Prior work in safety, policy writing or risk work for online content.
- Strong written and spoken English.
- Mandarin proficiency required for daily liaison with the China team.
- Law or journalism background (preferred).
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About TikTok

The employer
About TikTok
Social platforms · Media and streaming · Culver City, CA · 50,001 to 100,000 people · Founded 2016
Short-form video platform, run by ByteDance outside the US and by a joint venture of Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX inside it since 2026.
Moderation, reported
TikTok filed 37.7M moderation decisions with the European Commission for May 2026.
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