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Senior Analyst, Account Risk Management, EMEA - Trust & Safety

TikTok
Full-time
On-site
Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
Analyst
Responsibilities
The Account Risk Management team safeguards TikTok’s ecosystem by proactively identifying, mitigating, and preventing account-level abuse.
The team combines behavioral, device, and network intelligence with automation and applied machine learning to strengthen the integrity of the platform and reduce risk at scale. Our solutions are designed to detect and disrupt sophisticated threats while ensuring a secure and trustworthy experience for users.

About the Role
We are looking for a Senior Analyst with an applied scientist mindset to join the Account Risk Management team. This is a senior individual contributor role with meaningful ownership and authority. You'll design large scale enforcement systems - developing novel signals, running experiments, and deploying ML driven solutions to identify malicious networks and coordinated networks at scale.
This role requires someone who approaches problems with scientific rigor - forming hypothesis, building measurement frameworks, and iterating through experiments. You'll balance research depth with business impact and build solutions that will scale across billions of users.

Responsibilities
- Design enforcement systems from the ground up by developing novel behavioral, device, and graph signals to identify coordinated networks and adverserial actors at scale.
- Research emerging atatck patterns investigate new adversarial behaviors, prototype detection approaches, and validate signal effectiveness through rigorous analysis.
- Evaluate, fine-tune and integrate machine learning and anomaly-detection models to assess account-level risk and surface suspicious patterns in near real time.
- Conduct research and development on behavioral signals — identify, design, and validate new features or attributes that improve detection coverage and enforcement precision.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of detection and enforcement pipelines through rule refinement, feedback loops, and model retraining cycles.
- Communicate insights through concise reports, dashboards, and presentations that drive executive and operational decisions.

Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Data Science or related quantitative field
- Atleast 5 years of experience trust & safety, fraud detection, or threat intelligence.
- Strong SQL and Python for data exploration, analysis, and pipeline automation.
- Experience applying ML and anomaly-detection techniques to large, adversarial datasets.
- Experience with graph analytics or entity-resolution techniques for detecting coordinated or linked behaviors.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to distill complex analytical findings for diverse audiences.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Practical experience applying AI/ML techniques to solve diverse business challenges
- Hands on experience with distributed computing frameworks (Spark, Hive) for large scale data processing.
- Background in trust and safety-focused roles, with a track record of mitigating risks and ensuring platform integrity.
- Publication or presentation history demonstrating analytical depth.
- Experience designing and running controlled experiments in production systems.

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.​