Risk Intelligence Analyst, Trust & Safety

Responsibilities

About the team The Risk Intelligence team play a critical role in identifying, assessing, and surfacing emerging, evolving and ongoing risks that may impact user safety or platform integrity. About the role As a Risk Intelligence Analyst within Trust & Safety, you will draw on a deep understanding of how bad actors exploit the platform, leverage a variety of intelligence sources, conduct investigations, to surface signals that will enable content enforcement teams to remove violative content, accounts and networks at scale. This role sits at the intersection of technology, policy, and investigation and requires strong analytical and collaboration skills Responsibilities 1. Risk Detection & Threat Analysis - Proactively search for and identify undetected abuse trends and signals by leveraging internal data, open-source intelligence, and third party private intelligence. - Surface at scale, platform manipulation, adversarial behavior, and high-harm coordinated operations. - Build horizon scanning frameworks and early warning systems to detect emerging threats. - Support highest priority escalations across multiple channels with high quality, accuracy, and speed. 2. Risk Assessment & Tooling Development - Create or improve systematic frameworks to identify known and unknown risks. - Design dashboards, metrics, and monitoring tools to track threat signals and develop alerts for anomalous behavior. - Partner with engineering teams to improve existing tools and develop new tooling concepts to identify threats at scale.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications - 3+ years of experience in Risk Intelligence, Threat Detection, Trust & Safety, or similar investigative functions. - Strong command of OSINT methodologies and experience applying them to online risk investigations. - Strong and proven data analysis skills, with demonstrated experience in summarizing and simplifying complex data clearly for both technical and non-technical audiences. You are also open to proactively learning and using technical and tooling skills. - Deep knowledge of risks that are specific to social media platforms. Strong understanding of online safety, adversarial tactics, and digital harm mitigation. - You have respect for other cultures and passion for protecting users. You are eager to shape a new space within a rapidly growing and changing tech company - Collaborative and open mindset to adapt to a constantly-evolving T&S environment. Able to prioritize multiple ongoing tasks. - Ability to do both deep-focused work and be agile when needed, to thrive in a high tempo environment, adapt and respond to day to day challenges of the role Preferred Qualifications - Strong proficiency in SQL and at least one scripting language eg. Python - Familiarity with dis/misinformation, AIGC, online extremism, hate, mental health, human exploitation, frauds & scams, or influence operations. - Experience working in or adjacent to Tech, Government, Media, or Law Enforcement sectors. - Experience with digital forensics, adversarial testing (red teaming), or behavioural signal analysis.

Job Information

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.

Trust & Safety

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.