Deceptive Behaviors Policy Lead - Trust and Safety

As TnS' Policy Team Lead for Deceptive Behaviors, you will develop the strategy for our policy approach to deception, influence operations, and other inauthentic networks that undermine the integrity & authenticity of our platform. Safeguarding our community against actors who seek to undermine the authenticity of our platform is critical to maintaining TikTok's core vision.



This role will design the global approach to the Deceptive Behaviors space, including the development of our policies, collaboration with cross-functional enforcement partners, consultation with senior company leadership, external engagement, and close coordination with investigation, product and security teams. The Deceptive Behaviors team covers a range of important issues including influence operations, platform manipulation, spam and issues involving inauthentic networked behavior. In addition, this role will work closely with teams that manage high-risk events including elections, civil unrest, and conflict environments.



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. This may occur in the form of images, video, and text related to every-day life, but it can also include (but is not limited to) bullying; hate speech; child safety; depictions of harm to self and others, and harm to animals.



Responsibilities:

- Develop TikTok's overall policy strategy and roadmap related to Deceptive Behaviors on TikTok and lead development of global platform policies (e.g., in the form of policy titles, operational guidance documents).

- Lead a team of policy managers focused on Deceptive Behaviors.

- Partner closely with Global Security, Threat Research & Intelligence to guide TikTok's investigation and enforcement teams to ensure the timely detection and removal of Deceptive Behaviors activity.

- Engage with Legal and Public Policy teams to ensure compliance with key regulations and be a T&S point of contact for any potential new regulations.

- Act as a global escalation point of contact for Deceptive Behaviors, and align all stake-holders and leadership to respond to escalations and enable emergency policy decisions.

- Act as the representative with third party threat intelligence vendors, and work cross functionally to determine vendor roadmap and assess individual vendors' value.

- Remain up-to-date on industry trends and emerging issues in the misrepresentation space and design policies to combat them.

- Serve as a advisor to fellow Policy colleagues on topics that benefit from technical expertise (e.g., foreign influence operations) and be a key point of contact on behalf of the Policy team for our technical XFN partners (e.g. Security, Product & Investigations).