Global Head of Risk Intelligence - Trust and Safety
TikTok
- Location
- San Jose, California, United States of America
- Employment
- Full Time
- Work model
- On-Site
- Level
- Staff
- H-1B history
- 148 approvals (FY2023)
Skills
About this role
The Risk Intelligence team sits within Risk Detection and operates at the intersection of intelligence collection, analysis, and systems design. The team's mission is to move from primarily manual, reactive workflows toward scalable, data-driven, and proactive detection — working across first-party and third-party signals in close partnership with Product, Data Science, Engineering, and other Trust & Safety teams.
This is a leadership role for someone who combines strong judgment, operational depth, and systems thinking. Reporting directly to the Global Head of Risk Detection, you will work in close partnership to shape priorities and raise the quality and scale of the function — bringing your own perspective and building the kind of trust that creates room to take on more over time.
Responsibilities: - Lead, develop, and grow a high-performing Risk Intelligence team responsible for intelligence collection, analysis, and putting intelligence to work in support of proactive risk detection. - Translate team and organizational priorities into clear execution plans, operating mechanisms, and measurable outcomes. - Improve how intelligence is collected, structured, stored, and acted on — strengthening channels across first-party and third-party sources so signals more reliably inform detection and decision-making. - Work cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, and Data Science to improve detection inputs, data collection, internal tooling, reporting, and scalable intelligence workflows. - Identify operational gaps and drive improvements across the intelligence lifecycle, including opportunities to automate or augment workflows through structured data, rules, machine learning, and AI-enabled solutions where appropriate. - Define and track clear measures of impact, including improvements in detection quality, operational efficiency, and upstream prevention. - Build a healthy, high-standards team culture grounded in sound judgment, clear communication, strong partnership, and continuous improvement.