Risk Intelligence Analyst - Trust and Safety

Responsibilities
Risk Detection's team work is to identify and track emerging risks early, understand potential impact, and persuade right internal teams to act early enough to minimize harm or prevent entirely. Risk Detection tracks signals, analyzes information, and helps the company take timely, preventative action. The intelligence we produce is used by Trust & Safety, Platform Responsibility, and senior company leaders — including during moments of crisis.

As a Risk Intelligence Analyst within Trust & Safety, you will play a critical role strengthening TikTok’s global intelligence ecosystem. You’ll identify, collect, and operationalize signals that inform proactive detection and mitigation of risks including emerging threats, coordinated activity, and platform abuse.

This role sits at the intersection of intelligence collection, analysis, and systems design. You will help shape how intelligence flows through TikTok by improving data pipelines, managing external sources, and driving scalable, cross-functional processes that enhance the company’s early-warning and decision-making capabilities.

Responsibilities:
- Drive improvements to how intelligence is collected, analyzed and disseminated in one of the largest and most dynamic internet companies.
- Identify operational gaps, streamline workflows, and automate key elements of the intelligence lifecycle.
- Detect and assess emerging threats, translating intelligence into actionable insights and signals for containment, product and policy teams. Take direct ownership of key intelligence programs end to end.
- Define and maintain collection requirements, ensuring intelligence aligns with TikTok’s highest-priority trust and safety risks.
- Identify, evaluate, and integrate new 1P and 3P intelligence sources across global Trust & Safety.
- Partner with product and data science to strengthen proactive detection and automation.

Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
- 5 years of experience in Intelligence, Threat Detection & Analysis, Trust & Safety, Cybersecurity or related field.
- Excellent data literacy with the ability to distil complex information into clear actionable intelligence for diverse stakeholders, and a proven track record of driving outcomes.
- Excellent communication, prioritization, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Self-driven, thriving under deadlines and in ambiguity with the ability to adapt to but also influence changing priorities.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Proficiency in SQL or Python, and familiarity with data automation or dashboarding tools.
- Experience managing 3PI intelligence providers or external data partnerships.
- Familiarity with AI/GenAI tools to enhance collection, clustering, or risk detection.
- Strong understanding of OSINT techniques, adversarial behaviour, and emerging online harms (e.g. VBDA, hate, exploitation, misinformation).
- Experience contributing to intelligence frameworks or risk lifecycle governance models.

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.


Trust & Safety
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.


TikTok Accommodation
TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://tinyurl.com/RA-request


Job Information
【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $111467 - $206172 annually.
Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.
Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).
The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:
1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
3. Exercising sound judgment.