Data Scientist - Analytics, Trust and Safety

Tiktok • New York, NY

48d

About The Position

About the team: The goal of the data team is to simply use data to help the Trust & Safety team make many good decisions. As a Data Scientist on our team, you are instrumental in ensuring we use data analysis to keep our users and community safe. You will work closely with product managers, program managers, engineers, and policy managers on measuring risks, and detecting and preventing negative experiences on our product. You will help scope out projects, ideate on new strategies, and most importantly, use data to find insights, diagnose problems and tell compelling stories.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in data science or quantitative analysis
• Experience with SQL, ETL, R/Python
• Degree in a quantitative discipline (e.g., Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering)
• Ability to solve problems using quantitative approaches and strong communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences to communicate complex concepts and analytical results to drive business impact

Nice To Haves

• Experience of working in Trust and Safety or risk management is a plus
• Experience of working on policy research is a plus

Responsibilities

• Work with large and complex data sets to support project execution and strategic planning
• Apply expertise in quantitative analysis to understand user behaviours, provide actionable insights, and measure the success of safety features through experimentation and causal inference
• Influence stakeholders through data-based recommendations and mobilize cross-functional teams by telling compelling stories with data to drive business impact and innovative breakthrough
• Build and enhance models or tooling to strengthen proactive detection of risks and automation of policy enforcement
• Develop metrics and visualization tools to evaluate risks of the platform and the impact of safety strategies

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Broadcasting and Content Providers
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees