Threat Disruption Analyst - Trust & Safety (Multiple Positions)

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

Threat disruption work on TikTok's short-form video platform, aimed at preventing or disrupting abuse, spam and scams through data analysis, investigations and countermeasure design. The role sits in the Trust & Safety team and works with policy teams on regional regulatory compliance and enforcement strategy.

• Spam and platform abuse
• Fraud and scams

What you'd do

• Build scalable approaches to stop or cut down abuse while staying within industry rules and laws.
• Analyze user and regulatory data, quality metrics and intelligence sources to find risks and run proactive investigations.
• Track emerging threats and trends, including geopolitical, cultural and societal differences that affect compliance and enforcement.
• Suggest countermeasures that lower risk, tighten compliance and make enforcement stronger.
• Work with policy teams on trust and safety policies that comply with regional regulations.
• Travel domestically and internationally up to 5% of the time.

What it asks for

• Master's degree in computer science, engineering, IT, business analytics, mathematics or related field plus 2 years related experience, or bachelor's degree in those fields plus 5 years progressive post-degree experience.
• 2 years of policy research and analysis on online safety, content moderation, technology policy or internet regulation.
• 2 years managing cross-functional projects, including workplans and delivering strategic outcomes.
• 2 years using SQL, Python, R or LLM tools to detect, analyze and disrupt coordinated abuse, spam and scams.
• 2 years building dashboards and running root-cause analysis on metric movements.
• 2 years rolling out global trust and safety policies, workflows and enforcement procedures.
• 2 years looking into user cases and devising ways to counter them.

Worth knowing

• Travel up to 5%.

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