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Triage Specialist, Legal Policy Operations - Trust and Safety

TikTok
Full-time
On-site
Austin, Texas, United States
Specialist
Responsibilities
The Legal Policy Operations Triage Team is the first point of transfer for credible, specific and imminent escalations to the Emergency Response Team and Child Safety Teams for processing. The LPO Triage team is the first line of defence when dealing with extreme risk on TikTok.

Responsibilities:
- Immediate assessment and review of Emergency & Child Safety Livestream content that poses an extreme risk of serious injury or death to a user and /or child abuse or exploitation.
- Conduct livestream proactive reporting, processing, and profile content sweeps for escalations to law enforcement.
- Extensive knowledge across relevant policies to enable swift decision making adhering to robust SLA's.
- Work on Global markets reviewing content, posts, comments, users profiles while assessing the escalation in line with a risk assessment matrix.
- Record relevant notes and decisions in line with policies and SOP's.
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to drive improvements to policies and processes.
- The ability to work with issues that include suicide content, child exploitation, a variety of religious and political views, violence, and adult content.
- Investigate and resolve urgent, imminent reports of threats, including verifying the threat's existence and conducting deep-dive investigations into platform and user data.
- Drive and participate in key projects across Trust and Safety.
- This role requires you to work full weekend coverage and public holidays due to the team's global markets coverage.

Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
- 1-2 yrs experience in Trust Safety, Law Enforcement/Government agencies.
- Experience with handling and viewing distressing content.
- Ability to perform duties objectively, devoid of inherent biases or personal beliefs.
- Experience of assessing risk and the ability to think critically and make quick decisions.
- Proven experience managing and navigating data while maintaining the highest standards of privacy and data law compliance.
- Strong, demonstrated background in meticulous record-keeping during fast-paced, high-stakes investigations.
- Experience collaborating with multiple cross-functional teams and working independently with sound judgement.

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
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