Emergency Response Team Lead, EMEA - Trust & Safety

Responsibilities
About the team
The Emergency Response Team (ERT) provides urgent, time-critical support for serious safety-related incidents globally. The team operates within a 24/7 global follow-the-sun model, with regional teams providing coverage during their respective hours. Each regional team is responsible for responding to credible and imminent threats of harm, including child safety emergencies, suicide and self-harm risks, terrorism, violent extremism, youth endangerment, and other life-threatening situations

About the role
As the EMEA regional ERT lead, you will lead a team responsible for assessing and responding to the most critical safety escalations on the platform. You will support and contribute to the long-term strategy for global emergency response operations, ensuring scalability, operational excellence, regulatory compliance, and strong partnerships with law enforcement and government authorities worldwide.
You will work closely with a wider range of internal stakeholders to ensure consistent, compliant, and rapid decision-making during high-risk and crisis response scenarios.

This role requires exceptional judgment, crisis leadership capability, and the ability to operate effectively in dynamic and evolving environments where decisions may directly impact user safety, user privacy and regulatory requirements.
It is possible that this role will be exposed to harmful content as part of the core role and in response to escalations. Some content viewed may violate our Community Guidelines and may include graphic violence, child exploitation, sexual assault, self-harm, suicide, terrorism, and other disturbing material.

What will I be doing?
- Lead a regional team of Emergency Response Team specialists, responsible for reviewing and assessing time-critical emergency escalations.
- Ensure operational excellence and drive consistency in decision-making standards while allowing for necessary jurisdictional nuance, in accordance with policies and procedures and regulatory requirements.
- Ensure that all emergency data disclosures are scrutinised and handled in strict accordance with Law Enforcement Guidelines and SOP's.
- Oversee the team’s daily operational performance, ensuring strong quality, response time, and escalation standards are maintained.
- You will manage multiple projects of moderate to high complexity and scope. Work cross-functionally to ensure coordination and alignment on objectives and key results.
- There will be a necessity to work on escalations and handle sensitive content that includes child sexual abuse and exploitation, suicide and self harm, terrorism and other content that may be considered offensive or disturbing.
- You will enhance our operational workflows via process improvements and the identification of automation opportunities. Drive innovation regarding processes and best practices for implementing policies.
- Coach, mentor, and develop team members through performance management, skills development, and career growth planning. Promote team wellbeing and resilience when working with sensitive and potentially disturbing content.
- Collaborate with cross-functional internal teams to inform, influence, support and execute improvements to policies and procedures.
- This role is based in Dublin and you are required to be in the office 5 x days each week

Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
- At least 5 years of experience in Trust & Safety, investigations, crisis response, or related operational environments and working across cross functional team
- At least 2 years of experience in leadership and managing teams responsible for safety operations, investigations, or high-risk escalations.
- Experience reviewing or managing sensitive content involving emergency scenarios such as violence, suicide/self-harm, or child sexual abuse and exploitation content.
- Experience in managing projects from beginning to end and devising team strategies.
- Excellent decision making and ability to analyze information to assess threat and risk in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills and the ability to collaborate and influence effectively with cross-functional stakeholders and to clearly articulate risk assessments and operational insights.
- This position is part of a team that provides 24/7 support and requires working scheduled shifts, which may include weekends and holidays.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience leading crisis response during high-risk incidents.
- Demonstrated ability to balance user privacy, ECHR and rule of law issues, during real-world complex scenarios.
- Experience engaging directly with law enforcement, and/or government authorities.

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. ​
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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. ​
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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.​
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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.​