Job Description
Responsibilities
About the team
The Risk Intelligence team plays a critical role strengthening TikTok's global intelligence ecosystem. The risk intelligence team identifies, collect, and operationalise signals that inform proactive detection and mitigation of risks including emerging threats, coordinated activity, and platform abuse.
About the role
This role sits at the intersection of intelligence collection, analysis, and systems design. You will help shape how intelligence flows through TikTok by improving data pipelines, managing internal sources, and driving scalable, cross-functional processes that enhance the company's early-warning and decision-making capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Drive improvements to how intelligence is collected, analyzed and disseminated in one of the largest and most dynamic internet companies.
- Identify operational gaps, streamline workflows, and automate key elements of the intelligence lifecycle.
- Transform fragmented data and manual heuristics into reliable generation of risk intelligence.
- Detect and assess emerging threats, translating intelligence into actionable insights and signals for containment, product and policy teams. Take direct ownership of key intelligence programs end to end.
- Define and maintain collection requirements, ensuring intelligence aligns with TikTok's highest-priority trust and safety risks.
- Partner with product and data science to strengthen proactive detection and automation.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in Intelligence, Threat Detection & Analysis, Trust & Safety, Cybersecurity or related field.
- Excellent data literacy with the ability to distil complex information into clear actionable intelligence for diverse stakeholders, and a proven track record of driving outcomes.
- Excellent communication, prioritisation, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Self-driven, thriving under deadlines and in ambiguity with the ability to adapt to but also influence changing priorities.
Preferred Qualifications
- Proficiency in SQL or Python, and familiarity with data automation or dashboarding tools.
- Familiarity with AI/GenAI tools to enhance collection, clustering, or risk detection.
- Strong understanding of OSINT techniques, adversarial behaviour, and emerging online harms (e.g. VBDA, hate, exploitation, misinformation).
- Experience contributing to intelligence frameworks or risk lifecycle governance models.
Trust & Safety
Content that this role interacts with includes images, video, and text related to every-day life, but 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. Hence, it is possible that this role will be exposed to harmful content on a daily basis.
TikTok recognises that keeping our platform safe for the 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.
About TikTok
TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and we also have offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.
Why Join Us
Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we work towards every day.
We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an Always Day 1 mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.
Diversity & Inclusion
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.
