Search Operations Team Leader - Trust & Safety

Responsibilities

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's commitment is to keep our online community safe.
We have invested heavily in human and machine-based moderation to remove harmful content quickly and often before it reaches our general community.

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.

Some content viewed may violate our community guidelines, which include but are not limited to bullying; hate speech; child abuse; sexual assault; torture; bestiality; self-harm; suicide; murder.


What will I be doing?
• Grow the local search operation team
• Responsible day-to-day management, the regional team strategy and for driving the overall success of the team including managing prioritization, delegation etc.
• Responsible for overall team delivery, through management of individual and overall team performance.
• Provide guidance, mentorship and develop high-performing team members
• Led the team to establish and maintain search strategy evaluation and related investigation criteria, provided professional suggestions for the optimization of evaluation criteria
• Strengthen the team's understanding of Search Ops policies.
• Report, analyze, and provide insights on our quality process
• Participate in the recruitment, hiring and onboarding of new team members
• Led the team to perform policy, process & strategy localization, BPO quality management, Quality assurance, RCA, data analysis & deep dives, making reports & policy recommendations and strengthening the team's understanding of Search Ops policies.
• Lead the team to continuously evaluate outcomes, manage performance, establish and optimize the workflow and SOPs, and report, analyze, and optimize quality processes to ensure productivity, quality, and efficiency goals can be met.
• Cooperate with internal stakeholders and work with cross-functional teams such as product, research & development teams to optimize search strategies and improve users' search experience.
• Being responsible for landing new projects and providing high-quality training to BPO sites
• Additional compatible and related responsibilities that are not necessarily listed above

Qualifications

What should I bring with me?
• 5+ years experience working on e-commerce or search operations in a major tech or media company
• Knowledge about search engines, the best way to be addicted to TikTok, and familiarity with shopping apps like Amazon, Temu or other local apps.
• Recent and minimum 1-year experience as Team Lead/Content Manager/ Technical Lead [Strong people management skills and currently managing large multicultural teams with diverse skills.
]
• General knowledge of Search Engineering/Search engines and Search related strategies.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to work independently
• Possesses good interpersonal skills, demonstrates good judgment, training, and coaching skills
• Proven track record of working with cross-functional partners, across different countries, ideally have experience with different European markets/region
• Outstanding natural communicator (verbal/written) with excellent language and communication skills at full proficiency level in English)
Important information:
• Flexibility to move between projects etc, based on business needs
• Willing to work with sensitive issues that include child exploitation, a variety of religious and political views, violence, adult & sexual content

Trust & Safety recognises 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 reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at .
@tiktok.
com