Global Policy Lead, Violent Behaviors & Dangerous Actors, EMEA - Trust & Safety

Responsibilities

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and its offices include New York, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us
Creation is the core of TikTok's purpose. Our platform is built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make TikTok possible.
Together, we inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we all believe in and aim towards achieving every day.
To us, every challenge, no matter how difficult, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always.
At TikTok, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the communities we serve.
Join us.

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.

The Trust & Safety Policy team develops and reviews our community policies to promote a positive and safe environment for all of our users and content creators to enjoy and express themselves.

As the Global Issue Policy Lead for Violent Behaviors & Dangerous Actors, you will build out and drive TikTok's policies to ensure a safe online platform. Safeguarding our platform against violent or dangerous actors, as well as ensuring that content on our platform does not lead to offline real-world harm is critical to maintaining TikTok's core vision. You will work on developing thoughtful, nuanced policies that reflect TikTok values and ensure the safety of our users on our platform.

This role will oversee the Violent Behavior & Dangerous Actors policy vertical, that focuses on risks of violence, radicalization, criminal behavior, armed conflict zones, and dangerous orgs and individuals. You will stay ahead of current geo-political events (e.g., armed conflicts, civil unrest and social protests that may lead to violence, and emerging violent, hateful, or criminal organizations). This role will require an entrepreneurial, data-driven, forward-thinking policy mindset with a passion to help grow our policy scope in this area.

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.

What will I be doing?
- Manage a team of Policy Managers with a focus on violence & aggression policy
- Oversee the development of TikTok's overall policy strategy roadmap for Violent Behaviors & Dangerous Actors, including collaborating with Trust & Safety Product, Regional Policy, Risk Analysis and Investigations, and Global Security, and Threat Research & Intelligence teams
- Lead the development and iteration of global violent behavior and dangerous actor policies, which also includes shocking & graphic content (e.g., in the form of policy titles, operational guidance documents)
- 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
- Co-develop a rapid response strategies for fast moving, high impact threats, both globally and for region specific threats of violents, conflict, or dangerous orgs and individuals
- Act as a global escalation point of contact for all Violent Behavior and Dangerous Actor-related policies, and align all stake-holders and leadership to respond to emergency policy decisions
- Act as the representative for Violent Behavior and Dangerous Actor policies 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 Violent Behavior and Dangerous Actor space and design policies to combat them
- Serve as the subject matter expert representative for our Violent Behavior & Dangerous Actor efforts, in coordination with Public Policy, Comms, and/or Outreach & Partnerships
- Serve as policy representative in external speaking engagements on behalf of the Company
- Serve as a advisor to fellow Policy colleagues on topics that benefit from a "designations" backgrounds and be a key point of contact on behalf of the Policy team for how we treat harmful accounts (in addition to harmful content)

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in political science, gover