Data Scientist, Product Analytics - Trust & Safety

About Us
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.

Why Join Us
Creation is the core of TikTok's purpose. Our platform is built to help imagination thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make TikTok possible.
Together, we inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we all believe in and aim towards achieving every day.
To us, every challenge, no matter how difficult, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always.
At TikTok, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact for ourselves, our company, and the communities we serve.
Join us.

Our Trust & Safety team provides key support for TikTok’s innovative initiatives, state-of-the-art products, and integrated platforms servicing our global markets. As a Data Scientist on TikTok's Trust & Safety team, you will be instrumental in ensuring that TikTok remains a safe, trustworthy, and risk-free environment to create and enjoy content across all of our apps while protecting our brand. The ideal candidate will have a background in a technical field, experience working with large data sets, experience performing deep analysis to drive roadmaps, and experience delivering data products on a fast-paced team.

It is possible that this role will be exposed to harmful content as part of the core role/as part of project/ in response to escalation requests/by chance. It can also include (but is not limited to) bullying; hate speech; child safety; depictions of harm to self and others, and harm to animals.

Responsibilities:
- Partner with product, engineering, operations, and policy teams to scope, design, execute, measure, and improve the impact of Trust & Safety efforts.
- Conduct quantitative analysis, deliver insights, and influence Trust & Safety decision making through understanding of user behavior and safety ecosystem.
- Design and monitor core metrics; perform root cause analysis to explain drivers.
- Identify trends and opportunities to drive safety initiatives and create a healthy ecosystem for content creators, users, and consumers.
- Design and analyze experiments to inform and influence safety investments.
- Acquire new data from various production systems and databases.Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or above, preferably in mathematics, computer science, statistics, engineering, or related fields.
- 2+ years of experience in data science, data analytics, product analytics, or quantitative analysis.
- Experience in utilizing SQL to extract, manipulate, and analyze datasets. Python experience is a plus.
- Experience with creating data visualizations to communicate metric performance.
- Experience with statistical analysis and data modeling techniques, including: hypothesis testing, experiment design, and common regression and classification algorithms.
- Experience building data infrastructure and implementing reporting solutions.

Preferred Qualifications
- Previous experience in data science, data analytics, or product analytics at a consumer technology company.
- Passion for social technology products and a curiosity to learn & grow with a fast paced company.
- Experience working with international partners in different time zones.

Trust & Safety recognizes that keeping our platform safe for TikTok communities is no ordinary job which can be both rewarding and psychologically demanding and emotionally taxing for some. This is why we are sharing the potential hazards, risks and implications in this unique line of work from the start, so our candidates are well informed before joining.

We are committed to the wellbeing of all our employees and promise to provide comprehensive and evidence-based programs, to promote and support physical and mental wellbeing throughout each employee's journey with us. We believe that wellbeing is a relationship and that everyone has a part to play, so we work in collaboration and consultation with our employees and across our functions in order to ensure a truly person-centred, innovative and integrated approach.

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 are passionate about this and hope you are too.

TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://shorturl.at/cdpT2

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