User Support Team Leader, Customer Support

TikTok

Location
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Salary range
Not stated
Workplace
In office
Level
Frontline team lead
Job family
Customer Support
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: reads queue health from the metrics and knows which ones lie, balances accuracy, throughput and wellbeing as one problem, and runs a shift against demand that spikes without warning.

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Why this level

Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: the posting states the level in its title · asks for 5+ years · the title reads as M1 · manages people.

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The role, in T&S terms

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

Frontline user support leadership at TikTok, covering account access, platform integrity, minor safety and product support across user feedback channels such as in-app, webform, email and appeals. The role manages a team of full-time agents in Kuala Lumpur and owns the end-to-end health of a Customer Support line of business across Tier 1 and Tier 2 flows.

What you'd do

  • Manage day-to-day performance, attendance, quality, engagement and development of a full-time frontline agent team in Kuala Lumpur.
  • Run regular coaching, 1:1s, performance reviews and career development conversations with team members.
  • Track CSAT, SLA, backlog, productivity and quality outcomes, and coordinate recovery or optimization plans.
  • Serve as the main go-to for queue numbers, product feedback, operational risks and customer experience fixes across the LOB.
  • Find root causes of customer experience and efficiency defects, then work with Quality, Training, SOP, WFM, Product and Policy teams on fixes.
  • Turn business priorities into frontline plans for workflow changes, policy updates, launches and volume shifts.
  • Input on staffing, capacity planning, workflow design, escalation paths and tooling, including trade-offs and readiness risks.

What it asks for

  • 5+ years in support, Trust & Safety, customer service or similar operations (required)
  • Three or more years running frontline agents directly, in in-house or vendor-run teams (required)
  • Bachelor's degree, or equivalent hands-on experience, in customer support, T&S, operations or a related area (required)
  • Proven ownership of or influence over CSAT, SLA, backlog, quality, productivity or resolution time (required)
  • Data-driven root cause analysis and impact measurement (required)
  • Excellent English communication and stakeholder influence (required)
  • Experience with user-facing high-risk workflows such as platform integrity, account access or appeals (preferred)

Worth knowing

  • Employment is full-time in Kuala Lumpur with a BPO and in-house support model

Terms in this role

BPO.
Business process outsourcing: a vendor that runs work such as content review for client platforms.

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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

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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