Global Head of Risk Definition and Investigation - San Jose

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The global Monetization Integrity team ensures safe and quality experiences between users, creators and businesses. The team is responsible for creating scalable and reliable solutions that allow TikTok users and businesses to interact in a trustworthy manner, always working to anticipate and protect against threats.
The team is composed of Policy, Operations, Risk, Planning, Training and Data specialists working cross functionally with key stakeholders ( Sales, Product, Engineering, Public Relations, Global Communications, Legal, others). To design and optimize ad policies, manage moderation processes, and build scalable systems to enforce monetixation policies at scale. This team is critical in working together to solve large issues that have significant global impact.

As the Global Head of RDI (Risk Definition and Investigation) and part of the Monetization Integrity team, you will lead and support the Global MI business which contains 3 parts: 1) Policy, focusing on, among other responsibilities, developing global advertising policy strategies, and socialising policy vision and framework for both internal and external stakeholders, partner with cross-functional teams including Sales, Product and Legal to develop new advertising policies and enforcement criteria 2) RIM (Risk Investigation Management) focusing on proactive risk investigation and reactive risk response.
You will serve as a trusted advisor and strategic decision maker and play a pivotal role in developing and implementing risk management strategies using data insight, framework, roadmap and data measurement. Also, working on advertising policies for TikTok and bytedance on a global scale and devising strategies on how to enforce it. You will be responsible for ensuring compliance with regulations while facilitating responsible advertising practices.
You will be instrumental in maintaining successful relationships with our key stakeholders and finding opportunities to drive efficiency and operational excellence within the RDI pillar. This team is imperative to driving strategic relationships with our vendors to enable world class support for our growing eco-system of advertisers on TikTok.
As the Pillar Lead for RDI you will be part of the MI Leadership Team and be responsible for shaping strategy and executing against that strategy. You will partner with your fellow pillar leads to drive operational excellence within MI and ensure we have sustainable growth.

Responsibilities:
- Lead, motivate and develop a high performing team. Set the overall direction of functions in the organization, including full accountability for strategic planning and operational execution across multiple functions.
- Make data-driven decisions: Be truth-seeking with data.
- Identify operational and structural opportunities and help to improve existing or develop new processes to drive efficiency. Design and execute high-impact initiatives that provide increased value to users and advertisers.
- Develop and execute a comprehensive global risk management and policy strategy strategy.
- Identify potential risks, assess their impact, and create mitigation plans. Lead the team in high-priority escalations scenarios, driving an action-oriented approach while liaising with senior executives to coordinate cross functional effor
- Monitor and analyze industry trends and regulatory changes that could impact TikTok
Create, review, and refine advertising policies to align with TikTok and bytedance goals and industry best practices.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure policies are clear and enforced
- Ensure that advertising practices adhere to local and international regulations and standards.
- Stay up-to-date with evolving legal and regulatory requirements.
- Collaborate with internal teams, including Legal ( PR, GR and Regulatory Compliance) , Sales, integrity community and Product. Build relationships with external stakeholders, such as industry associations and regulatory.

Qualifications

- BA/BS degree or equivalent experience;
- Minimum 12 years of experience in a management role at a technology company with a focus on Ads Integrity, Risk, Security Operations, Trust and Safety or similar types of functions;
- Minimum 12 years of people management experience, experience with leading a large team in a large scale technology company;
- Significant experience working across multi-markets in a global business and leading a team within policy and policy enforcement, specifically regarding medio/content monetization or equivalent professional experience;
- Stakeholder Management & Influencing: Ability to engage with and influence senior stakeholders. Build strong relationships. Be able to resolve issues without escalation. Coach and support their team to navigate through conflicting priorities.
- Demostrated strong experience collaborating with senior executive partners in product, legal, sales departments to drive outcomes;
- Experience in vision and planning setting, OKRs, setting KPIs, frameworks and roadmap development;
- Demostrated understanding of product and platform risk processes, including machine learning, and model optimization, human-in-the-loop AI systems, data sources and systems, risk measurement, blue/red team and incident response.

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 tac.accommodations@tiktok.com

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $182000 - $372400 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.