Global Child Safety Lead, Trust & Safety

The Child Safety Operations team ensures the timely detection and removal of content across the broad spectrum of online child endangerment, such as child sexual abuse and exploitation. Through close partnerships with Legal, Policy, and Product & Process teams, the team is responsible for managing global time critical escalations, and child sexual exploitation and abuse incidents to protect our online community.

Responsibilities: - You will lead a team of Child Safety Leads and Specialists, ensuring daily operational effectiveness, set goals for the team, and be responsible for their wellness. - You'll coach/mentor team members and devise development plans for their professional development. - You'll lead and manage escalations of child safety requests, including from law enforcement, liaising with Legal, Policy, Product, Government Relations teams and Law Enforcement Operations colleagues whenever necessary. - You'll identify risks and issues across the business and create programs and processes to solve them proactively. Establish regular reporting to keep stakeholders and leadership up to date on progress, findings and recommendations. - You'll manage multiple projects of moderate-to-high complexity and scope. Work cross-functionally to ensure coordination and alignment on objectives and key results. - You'll enhance our operational workflows via process improvements and identification of automation opportunities. Drive innovation regarding processes and best practices for implementing policies. - You will represent TikTok as a senior public-facing voice on our safeguarding and reporting mechanisms for child safety exploitation and abuse material, including participation in external forums with child protection organizations - You'll keep abreast and evaluate the impact of global legislative, regulatory and legal developments related to the handling and reporting of child safety material. - You'll define and implement a long-term strategy that addresses scaling for the future. - You'll set, interpret performance metrics with the goal of impacting organizational change as a result. - You'll address sensitive content issues, including but not limited to graphic images, videos and writings, offensive or derogatory language, and other objectionable material.