Partner Operations Manager

At TikTok, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the communities we serve.
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About
Building a world where people can safely discover, create and connect. The Trust & Safety (T&S) team at TikTok helps ensure that our global online community is safe and empowered to create and enjoy content across all of our applications. We have invested heavily in human and machine-based moderation to remove harmful content quickly and often before it reaches our general community.
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About the team
The Business and Partner Management team at Trust & Safety is responsible for the strategy, governance and operations performance of Content Review's extended workforce across the region. The team makes it agile and efficient for the T&S team to engage with our suppliers, providing onboarding, training, standards and guidelines to keep our community safe.

As a Partner Operations Manager, you will manage site level vendor relationships, monitor delivery and drive vendor performance through implementation of projects and improvement initiatives within assigned partner sites.

Responsibilities
- You will ensure the program/project is successful through strong service delivery of core OKR/goals (latency, quality, wellness).
- You will hold the partner site accountable to and help set a clear path towards operational excellence.
- You will ensure adherence to budget and accurate financial accounting of vendor partner production, training and other expenses.
- You will own the partner relationship for outsourcing performance, including monitoring delivery and vendor's performance management. This includes identifying operational and performance risk and mitigations proactively within the assigned sites and/or lines of businesses.
- You will crisply articulate site performance and any remediation plans to an executive level.
- You are able to manage multiple responsibilities simultaneously and effectively, and efficiently prioritize and meet deadlines.
- You demonstrate operational excellence experience and focus on continuous improvement by re-engineering site level processes as needed (i.e. workflow management, floor management, workload prioritization, etc.).
- You can manage complex vendor and internal stakeholder relationships and ensure adherence to standard operating procedures.
- The ability to travel (50-70% on a higher side) is required for this role.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
- You have experience managing outsourced partner relationships along with people management experience.
- You come with operations management, program management and/or large scale transformation project experience.
- You have strong oral and written communications and influencing skills, and are able to navigate a global organization, influence stakeholders and affect outcomes. You have the ability to gain trust and influence with limited direct authority.
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Preferred Qualifications
- You come with experience in large scale operations working across or coordinating with multiple domains and business units.
- You have the ability to think outside the box, multitask and work well under pressure, to identify issues and work to resolve them in partnership with business leaders.
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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.
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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.