Project Management Team Lead – AI Data Operation, Trust and Safety – Full-time

Responsibilities

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 its offices include New York, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us
Creation is the core of TikTok’s purpose. Our platform is built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make TikTok possible.
Together, we inspire creativity and bring joy – a mission we all believe in and aim towards achieving every day.
To us, every challenge, no matter how difficult, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always.
At TikTok, we create together and grow together. That’s how we drive impact – for ourselves, our company, and the communities we serve.
Join us.

About Trust & Safety
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 team
The Linguistic Intelligence team is responsible for undertaking language-related annotation projects, specialising in large-volume data annotation supporting multi-language model development, cross-language understanding, language identification and language research.

It is possible that this role will be exposed to harmful content as part of the core role/as part of project/ in response to escalation requests/by chance.
This may occur in the form of 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.
– Responsible for team management, talent recruiting, team coaching, collaboration, and development.
– Collaborate with cross-functional departments to expand business, including new requirement evaluation, project strategic planning, resource coordination, and work towards project launching and successful delivery.
– Support and monitor project operations, negotiating with the product and algorithm team, driving the execution of projects, and supporting quality improvement and risk mitigation by analyzing data effectively.
– Support the team to work closely with the demand side to develop and optimize labeling guidelines and SOPs to ensure data quality & delivery and better support project implementation and model fine-tuning.
– Continuously optimize project workflows and processes to enhance quality management, process management, platform optimization, and risk management.
– Understand various business models and their development characteristics, enabling efficient and agile management, and the establishment of a highly effective team.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
– Bachelor’s degree or above
– Min 2 years of regional team management experience
– Proven end-to-end project management experience in the AI Generated Content, Large Language Model, Data Annotation Projects
– Proven experience in Regional/Global cross-functional stakeholder management
– Excellent proficiency in both written and spoken English
– A strong understanding of project quality management and data analysis experience
– Your ability to work in a high tempo environment, adapt, respond to day-to-day challenges of the role.

Preferred Qualifications
– A strong understanding of various project management methodologies and usage of project management tools is highly preferred
– Your resilience and commitment to self-care to manage the emotional demands of the role.

Trust & Safety recognises that keeping our platform safe for 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 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.

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