Lead Threat Analyst, Adult Nudity & Sexual Activity, Harassment & Bullying, and Minor Safety

Description
TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video.

Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy.

TikTok has global offices including Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul and Tokyo.

The Trust & Safety team at TikTok helps ensure that our global community is safe and empowered to create and enjoy content across all of our applications.

We are seeking an experienced content lead with subject matter expertise in violent extremism, terrorism, recruitment, and incitement to support the Violent Extremism and Hateful Behavior (VE/Hate) issue vertical.

Using strong thought leadership skills, the VE and Hateful Behavior Threat Lead will use subject-matter expertise and technical skills to identify and mitigate the most harmful threats targeting the platform and our users.

Using strong thought leadership skills, the VE/HB Threat Lead will use subject-matter expertise and technical skills to identify and mitigate the most harmful threats targeting the platform and our users.

– Work cross-functionally with product managers, program managers, operations, policy, and communications teams; to find gaps in current threat response processes such as detection and mitigation.

– Sit on a team of experts that not only respond to known bad actors, but proactively search and identify potential threats in order to build scalable protections to keep them out.

– Identify deceptive behavior of threat actors and collect signals in order to collaborate with data analysts and engineers to improve detection models and develop data driven mitigation strategies.

– Actively strengthen intelligence gathering, and investigation SOPs.
Qualifications

– Bachelor's degree in Legal Studies, Criminal Justice, Public Safety, Psychology, Homeland Security, Political Science, History, Women's Studies, Journalism, Cybersecurity, or other relevant field

– Regional expertise in the United States and Canada, as well as the impact of market content in other regions.

– 5+ years of experience in Threat Analysis on Trust and Safety, Product Development, Integrity, or Cyber Security teams, with at least 3+ years of experience in a desired threat area

– Experience investigating high harm threat actors across global markets

– An understanding of online deceptive and manipulative behavior.

Proven knowledge of the signals of specific threat actors, their cross-platform tactics, and how they evolve or change over time.

– Strong and proven data analysis skills

– SQL, Python or similar scripting languages, or Statistical analysis (multivariate analysis of variance, correlation/regression, etc.)
Preferred skills/qualifications:

– Published works regarding social media use by violent extremists, malign actors, those exploiting children, or criminal actors

– Strong preference for functionality in a second language besides English

– Critical thinking skills – able to apply theorems or analytical techniques to discover insights that are not readily apparent

– Excellent writing
Abilities

– Ability to work with little oversight and take initiative

– Ability to rapidly shift priorities based on evolving challenges to the platform Identify anomalous behavior and determine ways for further exploring new research leads

– Communicate coherently, and crisply to incident response teams and senior leadership

– Ability to communicate complex concepts to broader stakeholders without shared subject expertise

– Ability to work across time zones with global team members and stakeholders
TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives.

Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace.

At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy.

To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach.

We believe individuals shouldn't be disadvantaged because of their background or identity, but instead should be considered based on their strengths and experience.

We are passionate about this and hope you are too.
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