TikTok Shop - Regional Risk Analyst
Responsibilities
About the Team:
The TikTok E-commerce Governance and Experience team ensures our marketplace remains safe, trustworthy, and customer-centric across the globe. We protect users, sellers, and creators by designing policies, building systems, and managing operations that safeguard platform integrity.
Role Overview:
As an Regional Risk Analyst, you will serve as the regional risk owner, responsible for building, improving, and monitoring business processes that detect and prevent fraudulent activities across transactions, KYC, onboarding, and seller-creator affiliation in the region. You will bridge the gap between business needs and global risk frameworks, deeply understanding your region's unique risk landscape to make strategic decisions on defense deployments. In this evolving environment, you will also play a pivotal role in integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) into daily operations, leveraging AI agents and machine learning models to scale our defense mechanisms and improve operational efficiency.
Responsibilities:
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- Regional Strategy Ownership: Deeply understand business objectives and the specific risk landscape to make critical, data-driven decisions on risk thresholds, rule calibrations, and the launch of new defense strategies, effectively balancing platform security with regional business growth.
- Investigations & Incident Management: Lead investigations and analysis of suspicious behavior, fraudulent transactions, and abuse in a timely manner to protect the integrity of the platform. Respond to escalations and manage incidents end-to-end until resolution.
- AI Workflow & Agent Design: Own regional risk AI workflow optimization. Define AI opportunities for operational processes and capabilities and ideally build AI agents to drive operational improvements, automate investigative tasks, and scale risk detection capabilities.
- Model Monitoring & Prompt Tuning: Evaluate and review AI model output accuracy and data drift signals within your region. Fine-tune LLM prompts continuously to improve model accuracy and operational efficiency. Conduct deep-dive Root Cause Analysis (RCA) when model performance degrades.
- Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) Integration: Design and implement robust Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) supervision protocols to ensure AI-driven decisions are compliant, also safely audited and aligned with complex operational policies and market nuances.
- Threat Intelligence & Vulnerability Mitigation: Monitor user communities for emerging threats and new methods of fraud. Identify vulnerabilities and collaborate proactively with cross-functional teams to mitigate occurrences of fraudulent activity before they scale.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Engage with business, technology, product, data, and security/risk stakeholders to align risk strategies with commercial goals. Collaborate with Legal, Public Affairs, and regulators to investigate and respond to inquiries on fraud or crime-related activities.
- Reporting & Strategy: Produce regular high-quality fraud reports summarizing new trends, model performance, and business impacts to influence leadership and guide regional business strategy.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
- 2+ years of experience in operations, investigations, or risk strategy related to fraud, abuse, or cybercrime.
- Strategic Decision-Making: Proven ability to act as a regional owner, demonstrating a strong understanding of market dynamics and the ability to autonomously make high-stakes decisions on risk thresholds and strategy launches.
- Strong Data Extraction & Analytics: Must have the capacity to draw actionable insights from complex datasets; proficiency in SQL is required.
- AI & Model Literacy: Proven ability to interpret machine learning model performance metrics (e.g., precision, recall, and data drift signals) and translate them into operational adjustments.
- Ability to understand opposing points of view on highly complex issues and strong ability to gather information from various online sources and community groups.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Proficiency in Python or equivalent programming languages for advanced data manipulation and automation.
- Prior law enforcement, trust & safety policy, or prosecution experience is a strong plus.
Job Information
[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $88920 - $159600 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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