Actor Strategy Specialist, Governance Operations, TikTok Ads
Responsibilities
About the team
We are part of Global Monetization Product and Technology-Business Integrity-Governance. The Actor Strategy team focuses on securing the ad platform by tackling risks in the advertising ecosystem-such as fraud, impersonation, account takeover (ATO), over-spending, small bad debts, and spam registrations. We balance risk management with user experience to support TikTok Ads' healthy growth. The team continuously enhances its capabilities through platformization, intelligence, and automation, driving smart solutions powered by AI agents, machine learning models, and strategic rules.
Responsibilities:
1. Metric Ownership & Outcome Delivery
- Own core risk metrics: define monitoring definitions, break down targets, conduct trend insights and root-cause analysis, and produce clear conclusions with prioritized action plans.
- Build tiered governance strategies for high-risk industries/regions/attack patterns (e.g., access control, risk controls, enforcement, appeals) and push them into product/system implementation.
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2. Strategy Ops & Cross-functional Closure
- Work closely with Product, Engineering, and Algorithms to convert operational risk signals into executable solutions (strategy rules, model requirements, enforcement workflows, platform capabilities), and drive launch + iteration.
- Make strong trade-offs in complex scenarios: strike fraud hard while protecting legitimate advertisers, reducing false positives and ineffective appeals.
3. Evidence-based Governance & Automation
- Promote evidence-based governance: define evidence chain standards and traceable review/enforcement mechanisms to improve interpretability and auditability.
- Leverage traditional predictive models plus LLMs/Agents to explore automated evidence collection, automated investigation, and automated enforcement, upgrading from labor-intensive ops to tech-driven governance.
4. Mechanisms & Incident Response
- Build incident response mechanisms for high-risk events: quickly identify issues, mobilize cross-functional mitigation, run postmortems, and turn lessons into long-term system improvements-raising overall stability and response efficiency.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
- 3+ years of experience in risk control / anti-fraud / Trust & Safety / ads integrity / risk strategy, with proven ownership of metric outcomes.
- Strong data analytics skills: SQL required; able to independently build metric frameworks, perform attribution analysis, build dashboards, and evaluate impact (A/B tests, holdout, pre/post comparisons).
- Solid strategy ops methodology: risk discovery → rules/model/process design → launch iteration → monitoring & retros → platformized capability building.
- Strong cross-functional communication and execution: able to explain complex problems clearly, align key stakeholders, and drive delivery to launch.
- Fast learner with strong adaptability: quickly understands new business models, evolving attack patterns, and new tech, and turns them into actionable plans.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in ads ecosystem risk, payments risk, credit/bad debt, or account security (ATO).
- Familiar with common risk modeling approaches (LR/GBDT), feature engineering, threshold strategy, recall/precision trade-offs; practical understanding of LLM/Agent applicability and limits in governance.
- Experience building scalable platforms/workflows that move from "manual ops" to "system capability + automation."
Job Information
[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $117334 - $270000 annually.
Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.
Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).
The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:
1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
3. Exercising sound judgment.
Perks and Benefits
Health and Wellness
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- HSA
- Life Insurance
- Fitness Subsidies
- Short-Term Disability
- Long-Term Disability
- On-Site Gym
- Mental Health Benefits
- Virtual Fitness Classes
Parental Benefits
- Fertility Benefits
- Adoption Assistance Program
- Family Support Resources
Work Flexibility
- Flexible Work Hours
- Hybrid Work Opportunities
Office Life and Perks
- Casual Dress
- Snacks
- Pet-friendly Office
- Happy Hours
- Some Meals Provided
- Company Outings
- On-Site Cafeteria
- Holiday Events
Vacation and Time Off
- Paid Vacation
- Paid Holidays
- Personal/Sick Days
- Leave of Absence
Financial and Retirement
- 401(K) With Company Matching
- Performance Bonus
- Company Equity
Professional Development
- Promote From Within
- Access to Online Courses
- Leadership Training Program
- Associate or Rotational Training Program
- Mentor Program
Diversity and Inclusion
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program
- Employee Resource Groups (ERG)
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