Global Head of Risk Intelligence - Trust and Safety

TikTok

Location
San Jose, United States of America
Salary range
USD $159,000 – $360,000 base
Workplace
In office
Level
Manager
Job family
Investigations
Posted
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The T&S Network estimates this role to be M4, Senior Manager. The typical base salary for that level in Investigations & Threat Intel is $200k to $290k at an employer this size in the San Francisco Bay Area. Key skills at this level: runs an investigation end to end, from signal to enforcement to writeup, builds and maintains the tradecraft others on the team follow, and works law enforcement and external referral pathways correctly.

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Why this level

Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: the title reads as M4 · asks for 5+ years · posts $159k to $360k base at a company over 5,000 in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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The role, in T&S terms

Written by the T&S Network from TikTok's posting.

Leads a Risk Intelligence team inside Risk Detection that gathers and analyzes intelligence to support proactive, data-driven detection of risk on the platform. The team's aim is to move trust and safety work away from manual, reactive workflows, combining first-party and third-party signals in partnership with Product, Data Science, Engineering and other T&S teams.

What you'd do

  • Lead, develop and grow a Risk Intelligence team covering collection, analysis and use of intelligence for proactive detection.
  • Turn team and organizational priorities into execution plans, operating mechanisms and measurable outcomes.
  • Strengthen the channels, storage and use of intelligence from both internal and external sources so signals reach detection decisions.
  • Partner with Product, Engineering and Data Science on detection inputs, data collection, internal tooling and reporting.
  • Find operational gaps across the intelligence lifecycle and push automation using rules, machine learning and AI where suited.
  • Define and track measures of detection quality, operational efficiency and upstream prevention.
  • Build a high-standards team culture around sound judgment, clear communication and continuous improvement.

What it asks for

  • At least five years in intelligence, risk, T&S, investigations, operations, product strategy or a closely related field.
  • Track record of managing and growing high-performing teams.
  • Experience running complex cross-functional work in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.
  • Strong analytical and quantitative skills for using data to find issues and set priorities.
  • Strong communication and stakeholder management, including influence across a matrixed organization.
  • Hands-on record of using automation or AI tools to make day-to-day work run better.
  • Track record of improving systems, workflows or operating models, not only running existing ones.

Terms in this role

OSINT.
Open-source intelligence: investigating with publicly available information, such as social media, public records, archived pages and imagery.

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About TikTok

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About TikTok

Social platforms · Media and streaming · Culver City, CA · 50,001 to 100,000 people · Founded 2016

Company profile

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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