User Support Team Leader, Customer Support
- 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.
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.
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
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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