Risk Intelligence Analyst - Trust and Safety
Responsibilities
Risk Detection's team work is to identify and track emerging risks early, understand potential impact, and persuade right internal teams to act early enough to minimize harm or prevent entirely. Risk Detection tracks signals, analyzes information, and helps the company take timely, preventative action. The intelligence we produce is used by Trust & Safety, Platform Responsibility, and senior company leaders - including during moments of crisis.
As a Risk Intelligence Analyst within Trust & Safety, you will play a critical role strengthening TikTok's global intelligence ecosystem. You'll identify, collect, and operationalize signals that inform proactive detection and mitigation of risks including emerging threats, coordinated activity, and platform abuse.
This role sits at the intersection of intelligence collection, analysis, and systems design. You will help shape how intelligence flows through TikTok by improving data pipelines, managing external sources, and driving scalable, cross-functional processes that enhance the company's early-warning and decision-making capabilities.
Responsibilities:
- Drive improvements to how intelligence is collected, analyzed and disseminated in one of the largest and most dynamic internet companies.
- Identify operational gaps, streamline workflows, and automate key elements of the intelligence lifecycle.
- Detect and assess emerging threats, translating intelligence into actionable insights and signals for containment, product and policy teams. Take direct ownership of key intelligence programs end to end.
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- Define and maintain collection requirements, ensuring intelligence aligns with TikTok's highest-priority trust and safety risks.
- Identify, evaluate, and integrate new 1P and 3P intelligence sources across global Trust & Safety.
- Partner with product and data science to strengthen proactive detection and automation.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
- 5 years of experience in Intelligence, Threat Detection & Analysis, Trust & Safety, Cybersecurity or related field.
- Excellent data literacy with the ability to distil complex information into clear actionable intelligence for diverse stakeholders, and a proven track record of driving outcomes.
- Excellent communication, prioritization, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Self-driven, thriving under deadlines and in ambiguity with the ability to adapt to but also influence changing priorities.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Proficiency in SQL or Python, and familiarity with data automation or dashboarding tools.
- Experience managing 3PI intelligence providers or external data partnerships.
- Familiarity with AI/GenAI tools to enhance collection, clustering, or risk detection.
- Strong understanding of OSINT techniques, adversarial behaviour, and emerging online harms (e.g. VBDA, hate, exploitation, misinformation).
- Experience contributing to intelligence frameworks or risk lifecycle governance models.
Job Information
[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $111467 - $206172 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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