Future Leaders Program, Associate (Trust & Safety)

Responsibilities
About the team
Building a world where people can safely discover, create and connect. The Trust & Safety (T&S) team at TikTok helps ensure that our global online community is safe and empowered to create and enjoy content across all of our applications. We have invested heavily in human and machine-based moderation to remove harmful content quickly and often before it reaches our general community.

About the role
The Trust & Safety Future Leaders Program is an 18–24 months, structured development journey designed to intentionally build the accelerated future-leader T&S business capabilities.

The program accelerates early-career talent through hands-on rotations, formal training, mentorship, and real business ownership, preparing them to lead in complex & high-impact Trust & Safety Business Functions.

1. Participants will:
- Work on real Trust & Safety business challenges impacting users and platforms
- Develop core competencies, business knowledge & leadership skills
- Build future-ready capabilities through job rotations in main business functions: Operations - Policy - Regional Safety & Risk Response - Generative AI & Emerging Products:

A. Policy
- Develop clear, operable global policies that balance harm prevention and freedom of expression across ByteDance products.
- Represent policy positions to regional stakeholders, ensuring market context is incorporated into high-harm policy areas.
- Improve creator experience by strengthening policy accuracy and enforceability across human review, sweeps, automated systems, and LLMs, with emphasis on the most prevalent harms.

B. Operations
- Drive best-in-class content moderation operations and quality.
- Translate business demands into scalable and efficient processes implemented across the operations teams.
- Develop industry-leading psychological health programs for Trust & Safety and promote positive workplace conditions.

C. Regional Safety & Risk Response:
- Inspire, preserve, and sustain trust with societal stakeholders.
- Anticipate and prevent ban risks, fines, and litigation.
- Prevent risks and regrettable escalations during high-risk events and civic processes.
- Contain risks during unexpected crises and escalations.
- Build trust with regulators, law enforcement, and governments; uphold digital rights and privacy obligations.
- Detect and prevent real-world harm by escalating and reporting extreme-risk content (including CSAM/CSEA).

D. Generative AI & Emerging Products
- Build and execute a world-class safety, testing, and risk management system to ensure ByteDance’s GenAI & Emerging Products innovations are launched safely and responsibly.
- Ensure all ByteDance GenAI & EP features and products are launched with industry-leading safety and fairness, supported by robust and efficient risk evaluation.
- Oversee GenAI labeling and Emerging Products content moderation, upholding moderation quality across all in-house and BPO sites while balancing quality, efficiency, resilience, and cost-effectiveness.

Your preferences, skill sets and business needs will be considered to ensure the most impactful experience. Whether you're a graduate or an early career professional looking to accelerate your growth and build a highly meaningful career, this program is designed for you.

2. Perks and Benefits
- Global & Regional Work Exposure: Opportunity to lead and contribute to high-impact projects that help protect millions of users and ensure a safer experience across our platforms.
- Leadership Track: A structured pathway to future leadership roles.
- Cross-Functional Rotations: Experience multiple business scope & departments of Trust & Safety
- Mentorship & Training Enablement : Mentorship & Coaching from global key T&S & HR leaders with Specified Training Program.
- Impactful Mission: Contribute to user safety, platform integrity, and global digital well-being.
- Competitive Compensation & benefits aligned with Singapore tech-market benchmarks.

3. Selection Process:
- Resume Screening (Jan 5 - Feb 15, 2026): A comprehensive review of your experience and achievements to assess your suitability for the role and alignment with our key requirements.
- Virtual Interview (5 Jan - 6 March, 2026): Chat with our Talent Acquisition/HR Business Partner and business team.
- Assessment Centre (12 - 14 March, 2026) - Tackle real-world business scenarios to demonstrate your analytical thinking, data interpretation skills, and business acumen in the T&S landscape.
- Onboarding Date: 18 May 2026
Note: This timeline serves as a general guide. This job posting will stay open until all roles are filled, which may be before or after the stated application window. Applicants are encouraged to apply early.

Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Policy, Law, Business, Operations, Data, Social Sciences, or related fields
- Excellent analytical thinking, problem-solving, and communication skills
- Sound judgment, integrity, and ability to work with harmful or ambiguous issues.
- High learning agility, resilience, and interest in social media contents
- Have the ability to handle or deal with harmful content.

Preferred Qualifications
- Work experience in Policy, Law, Business, Operations, Data, Social Sciences, or Trust & Safety related fields.
- Strong reasoning, writing, and ethical judgment.
- Strong execution mindset, data-driven, process-oriented.
- Have the ability maintain composure under pressure, risk-aware, make decisions quickly and effectively.

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.​