Head of Outreach & Partnerships - APAC

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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.

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.

About the Role
As the Head of Outreach & Partnerships, APAC - Trust & Safety, you will lead a team that serves as the primary contact between TikTok's Trust & Safety team and APAC civil society stakeholders (e.g., NGOs, academics). You will seek expertise, gather feedback, and test ideas to improve our platform and protect our users. You will advance our work in introducing and implementing policies, programs, and product features that improve safety, as well as enhance trust in our company by engaging with external stakeholders. You will serve in the leadership team of Global Outreach & Partnerships.

What will I be doing?
- Day to day management of the APAC Outreach and Partnerships team for T&S.
- Oversee APAC Outreach & Partnership initiatives such as regional Safety Advisory Councils and the APAC Community Partner Channel. Develop strategies for partnership onboarding and evaluation as well as ways to incorporate partner feedback into program design.
- Work cross-functionally, building synergy and influence with multiple departments within T&S including Issue Policy, Product and cross functional partners in Public Policy, Communications, Core Product and other teams globally.
- Collaborate across global product, program, and regional teams to define APAC OPM external engagement priorities.
- Identify and engage with external experts who can help enhance safety policies and product features across issue verticals (e.g. Minor Safety, Harassment & Bullying, Platform Integrity) and on topics of relevance (e.g. human rights, responsible innovation, transparency reporting, etc.), and ensure their voices are heard by T&S teams.
- Support the team in maintaining internal and external research efforts to keep the team up-to-date on industry trends and emerging issues across key priorities.
- Working in partnership with internal teams, develop a strategy around memberships, external conferences, speaking engagements, panels, discussion, webinars to enhance TikTok's Trust and Safety narrative and mission.
- Collaborate with internal teams to build trust & safety narratives and strategies to boost media literacy and digital literacy efforts on- and off-app across issue verticals and develop success metrics to evaluate impact.

Qualifications

Required
- Bachelor's degree or above;
- Deep experience in external engagement roles in tech, advocacy, or government;
- 3+ years relevant experience -- in Trust and Safety or related fields;
- Strong experience in leading teams, as well as working cross-functionally with teams such as policy, legal, operations and product;
- Significant background in partnerships, advocacy, policy programming, or related field, with a strong network and understanding of civil society and/or the technology sector across APAC;
- A deep understanding of major social and safety issues related to the tech industry (e.g., ethics, human rights);
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences;
- Ability to succinctly describe your vision and highlight roadblocks to an executive audience, bringing desired coordination outcomes;
- A scrappy energy and willingness to pitch in and help on work across the team;
- A sense of community empathy, global vision, passion, a drive to achieve, humility facing the depth of the unknown.

Preferred
- Relevant language proficiency for the market
- Comfort with data, research, and academic disciplines

Trust & Safety recognises 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.