Global Operations
Rapid Response Analyst, EMEA - Trust & Safety
Location
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Dublin
Employment Type
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Regular
Job Code
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A56077
Responsibilities
About the Team
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 Rapid Response team aims to ensure the safety of our users on the platform by responding to varying levels of incidents. As an Incident Manager within our Trust & Safety team, you will be on the front line coordinating our response to major global Trust & Safety incidents, while also driving proactive sweeps, containment, and continuous improvement of our incident response playbooks.
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 incident requests / by chance.
Some content viewed may violate our community guidelines, which include but are not limited to bullying; hate speech; child abuse; sexual assault; torture; bestiality; self-harm; suicide; murder.
What will I be doing?
- Incident Response: Lead the development and execution of a comprehensive crisis management plan for Trust & Safety incidents, ensuring a swift and effective response to emerging threats or challenges.
- Proactive Sweeps & Trend Detection: Conduct sweeps for violative content and emerging trends across features to surface incidents before they escalate, and identify patterns, trends, and gaps in content enforcement during incidents.
- Containment: Contain high-risk content quickly and thoroughly during live incidents, ensuring timely mitigation of escalations and crises.
- Maintain Composure in Fast-Paced Situations: Exhibit comfort, methodical thinking, and calmness during fast-paced situations, ensuring steadfast and effective crisis management.
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Collaborate with Trust & Safety, Public Relations, Public Policy, Legal, Product, and Engineering teams to coordinate responses to critical incidents and manage communication strategies.
- Workflow & Playbook Development: Develop and refine incident response and containment workflows, leveraging both automation and manual review as needed.
- Data Analysis: Use quantitative methods to analyze incident data to identify areas of risk and opportunity, translating insights into mid-term mitigations and long-term policy, product, and process improvements.
- Content Policy Compliance: Ensure that crisis responses align with regulatory standards and the company's content policies and guidelines, working to maintain a safe and positive user experience.
- Post-Incident Analysis & Effectiveness Measurement: Lead post-incident evaluations to assess the effectiveness of response and containment actions, identify areas for improvement, and iterate on playbooks for continuous improvement.
- Documentation & Insights Sharing: Maintain incident documentation and share insights across Trust & Safety to support ongoing risk reduction.
- Be flexible with global working hours and operating on certain weekends.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualification(s):
- Bachelor's degree and 4+ years of experience in Trust & Safety Incident, Risk, Investigations, Escalations or Crisis Management roles, or related areas.
- Ability to work effectively in a high-tempo environment.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to simplify and present complex issues to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong quantitative skills and a data-driven mindset, with demonstrated ability to identify patterns and enforcement gaps in moderation systems.
- Experience with content moderation enforcement tools to investigate and action violative content.
- Understanding of Trust & Safety challenges, and global legal and regulatory frameworks related to online safety and harm prevention.
Preferred Qualification(s):
- Proficiency with SQL.
- Experience working in a technology or digital platform environment.
- Strong project management skills and thought leadership.
- Strong data skills with SQL, Python, or similar scripting languages to solve complex problems.
- Hands-on ability to design and launch tools, processes or systems from scratch.
- Familiarity with content moderation tools, AI/ML solutions, and automation for risk management and containment.
- Experience operating across the incident-to-prevention lifecycle, from acute response through containment and long-term risk reduction.
- Knowledge of cultural sensitivities and regional differences in harmful content definitions and enforcement.
Job Information
Trust & Safety
Content that this role interacts with includes 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. Hence, it is possible that this role will be exposed to harmful content on a daily basis.
TikTok recognises that keeping our platform safe for the TikTok communities is no ordinary job which can be both rewarding and psychologically demanding and emotionally taxing for some. This is why we are sharing the potential hazards, risks and implications in this unique line of work from the start, so our candidates are well informed before joining.
We are committed to the wellbeing of all our employees and promise to provide comprehensive and evidence-based programs, to promote and support physical and mental wellbeing throughout each employee's journey with us. We believe that wellbeing is a relationship and that everyone has a part to play, so we work in collaboration and consultation with our employees and across our functions in order to ensure a truly person-centred, innovative and integrated approach.
About TikTok
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 we also have offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.
Why Join Us
Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we work towards every day.
We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.
Diversity & Inclusion
TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.
