Partner Operations Manager, APAC (LIVE & Monetization), Trust & Safety
- Location
- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Salary range
- Not stated
- Workplace
- In office
- Level
- Manager
- Job family
- BPO & Vendor Management
- Posted
- Recently
The T&S Network estimates this role to be M3, Manager. 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: forecasts volume and staffs against it with real error bars, owns service levels and can explain a miss without blaming the queue, and governs a vendor relationship on quality, not only on cost per action.
Why this level
Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: the title reads as M3 · asks for 5+ years · manages people.
The role, in T&S terms
Written by the T&S Network from TikTok's posting.
Vendor operations management for live content moderation and monetization across outsourced moderation partners in APAC, tracked through SLA, accuracy and throughput metrics. The role sits in the Regional Partner Success team and works to drive quality improvements using Quality Data Measurement inputs, acting as the link between the internal TnQ team and partner moderation teams.
What you'd do
- Run end-to-end live content moderation delivery across assigned vendor partners, including SLA compliance for response time, accuracy and throughput.
- Set up vendor cadences such as partner huddles, weekly business reviews and monthly strategic planning.
- Watch real-time moderation queues and escalation paths, and fix bottlenecks, capacity gaps and quality drift.
- Own quality dashboards and scorecards across partner sites, and reduce reporting discrepancies.
- Lead root cause analysis on underperformance with vendor QA leads and propose fixes.
- Project-manage policy rollouts, upskilling and process changes across vendor partners.
- Run policy calibration sessions and check vendor QA teams' policy knowledge.
What it asks for
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- Proven record of running vendor operations at scale against quality and SLA metrics or BPO KPI targets.
- Strong analytical skills and proficiency with performance dashboards and reporting tools.
- Experience working across multiple countries and time zones, or leading large-scale transformation with sourcing or contracting exposure.
- Hands-on experience integrating Gen AI or LLM tools into operational workflows (preferred).
- Familiarity with AI evaluation metrics and AI safety or red-teaming concepts (preferred).
Worth knowing
- Work covers live moderation and crisis response, including triage during critical events and major incidents.
Terms in this role
- Red teaming.
- Testing a system, often an AI model, by deliberately trying to make it fail or misbehave, so problems are found and fixed first.
- BPO.
- Business process outsourcing: a vendor that runs work such as content review for client platforms.
Our best summary of the posting, and it can be wrong. The employer's posting is what counts: read it in full on TikTok before you apply. If we got something wrong, report this listing.
Tired of job hunting?
Let the roles come to you. Switch on Available, and when a hiring manager or recruiter brings us a role that fits, we'll put you forward. Never to the company you work for.
Still listed 13 hours ago
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.
Other jobs at TikTok
246 other jobs open
NewTikTok · M4 · San Jose +1
$159k – $272k
NewTikTok · P2 · San Jose
$112k – $162k
TikTok · P3 · Singapore
TikTok · P1 · Singapore
More jobs like this
All jobsTikTok · M3 · Jakarta
TikTok · P2 · Kuala Lumpur
NewAlice · M4 · Ramat Gan
NewAmazon · M3 · Seattle
$184k – $249k
NewEtsy · M4 · Brooklyn
$156k – $210k



