Intelligence Analyst, Global Trend Detection - Trust and Safety
- Locations
- San Francisco, United States of America · Singapore
- Salary range
- USD $108,000 – $208,800 base
- Workplace
- In office
- Level
- Individual contributor
- Job family
- Investigations
- Posted
- Recently
The T&S Network estimates this role to be P3, Senior. The typical base salary for that level in Investigations & Threat Intel is $150k to $210k at an employer this size. 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.
Why this level
Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: posts $108k to $209k base at a company over 5,000 · the title reads as P2 · sets strategy beyond one team.
The role, in T&S terms
Written by the T&S Network from TikTok's posting.
Global trend detection work in TikTok's Risk Detection group, finding emerging platform risks before they escalate across all lines of business. The role designs detection strategies for high-priority risk domains such as election integrity and crisis response, then runs the tactical monitoring, validation and enrichment that deliver early warning signals to policy, product and enforcement teams.
What you'd do
- Make data-driven calls on risk breakdown, resource allocation and coverage for ambiguous threat scenarios.
- Build frameworks, prioritization methods and impact metrics, and maintain team playbooks.
- Lead detection and response during planned high-risk events like elections and unplanned crises.
- Run multi-source data analysis to spot emerging trends and quantify their risk impact.
- Monitor third-party detection partners, set SLAs and run quality assurance on their output.
- Automate repetitive detection tasks and fold AI tooling into operating procedures.
What it asks for
- Have a track record of running complex projects or risk portfolios alone and showing measurable results.
- Demonstrated experience with AI tools, data analytics platforms or technical detection systems, including process improvements.
- Skilled at managing stakeholders and communicating, including presenting to senior leaders.
- Strong quantitative analysis skills, including analysis of large datasets.
- Solid grasp of world geopolitics, how social platforms behave and newer online harms.
- Worked with outside vendors or external partners before (preferred).
- Willingness to learn Python or SQL (preferred).
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

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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