Data Scientist, Product Analytics - Trust & Safety

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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.

Our Trust & Safety team provides key support for TikTok's innovative initiatives, state-of-the-art products, and integrated platforms servicing our global markets. As a Data Scientist on TikTok's Trust & Safety team, you will be instrumental in ensuring that TikTok remains a safe, trustworthy, and risk-free environment to create and enjoy content across all of our apps while protecting our brand. The ideal candidate will have a background in a technical field, experience working with large data sets, experience performing deep analysis to drive roadmaps, and experience delivering data products on a fast-paced team.

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.

Responsibilities:
- Partner with product, engineering, operations, and policy teams to scope, design, execute, measure, and improve the impact of Trust & Safety efforts.
- Conduct quantitative analysis, deliver insights, and influence Trust & Safety decision making through understanding of user behavior and safety ecosystem.
- Design and monitor core metrics; perform root cause analysis to explain drivers.
- Identify trends and opportunities to drive safety initiatives and create a healthy ecosystem for content creators, users, and consumers.
- Design and analyze experiments to inform and influence safety investments.
- Acquire new data from various production systems and databases.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or above, preferably in mathematics, computer science, statistics, engineering, or related fields.
- 2+ years of experience in data science, data analytics, product analytics, or quantitative analysis.
- Experience in utilizing SQL to extract, manipulate, and analyze datasets. Python experience is a plus.
- Experience with creating data visualizations to communicate metric performance.
- Experience with statistical analysis and data modeling techniques, including: hypothesis testing, experiment design, and common regression and classification algorithms.
- Experience building data infrastructure and implementing reporting solutions.

Preferred Qualifications
- Previous experience in data science, data analytics, or product analytics at a consumer technology company.
- Passion for social technology products and a curiosity to learn & grow with a fast paced company.
- Experience working with international partners in different time zones.

Trust & Safety recognizes 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 a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://shorturl.at/cdpT2

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Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $136800 - $228000 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.

Our company benefits are designed to convey company culture and values, to create an efficient and inspiring work environment, and to support our employees to give their best in both work and life. We offer the following benefits to eligible employees:

We cover 100% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, approximately 75% premium coverage for dependents and offer a Health Savings Account(HSA) with a company match. As well as Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life and AD&D insurance plans. In addition to Flexible Spending Account(FSA) Options like Health Care, Limited Purpose and Dependent Care.

Our time off and leave plans are: 10 paid holidays per year plus 17 days of Paid Personal Time Off (PPTO) (prorated upon hire and increased by tenure) and 10 paid sick days per year as well as 12 weeks of paid Parental leave and 8 weeks of paid Supplemental Disability.

We also provide generous benefits like mental and emotional health benefits through our EAP and Lyra. A 401K company match, gym and cellphone service reimbursements. The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.