The Trust & Safety policy team at TikTok helps ensure that our global community is safe and empowered to create and enjoy content across all of our apps, while protecting our brand.
As T&S's Product Policy Lead for Deceptive Activities & Actors you will develop the strategy for our policy approach to deception and disinformation that undermine the Integrity & Authenticity of our platform. Safeguarding our community against actors who seek to undermine the authenticity of our platform is critical to maintaining TikTok's core vision.
This role will design the global approach to the Deceptive Activities and Actors, including the development of our policy approach, consultation with senior company leadership, external engagement, and close coordination with investigation and security teams. The Deceptive Activities and Actors team covers a range of important issues including Covert Influence Activity, Inauthentic Behavior, and Misrepresentation issues. In addition, this role will work closely with teams that manage high-risk events including elections, civil unrest, and conflict environments.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Develop TikTok's overall policy strategy and roadmap for the Deceptive Activities and Actors policies
Lead the development and iteration of global platform integrity policies (e.g., in the form of policy titles, operational guidance documents) related to Covert Influence Activity on TikTok
Partner closely with Global Security, Threat Research & Intelligence to guide TikTok's investigation and enforcement teams to ensure the timely detection and removal of Deceptive Activities
Engage with Legal and Public Policy teams to ensure compliance with key regulations and be a T&S point of contact for any potential new regulations
Act as a global escalation point of contact for Covert Influence, and align all stake-holders and leadership to respond to emergency misrepresentation-related policy decisions
Act as the representative with third party threat intelligence vendors, and work cross functionally to determine vendor roadmap and assess individual vendors value
Remain up-to-date on industry trends and emerging issues in the misrepresentation space and design policies to combat them
Serve as a advisor to fellow Policy colleagues on topics that benefit from a technical backgrounds (e.g., deep fakes) and be a key point of contact on behalf of the Policy team for our technical XFN partners (e.g. Security, Product & Process)

QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelors degree in political science, government, cybersecurity communications, law or related field
7+ years of experience in security, government, or technology focused on addressing misrepresentation, inauthentic behavior, and/or influence operations at scale
Experience with people management and success in cross-functional collaboration
Expertise on actors who may engage in coordinated misinformation campaigns, influence operations, and/or inauthentic behavior on social media
Content knowledge around misinformation narratives, influence operations, and inauthentic behavior on social media
Experience with international technology/online content and /social media issues
Ability to quickly identify problems, thoroughly analyze them and deliver feasible policy solutions
Technical fluency to understand and analyze technical investigative reports to provide accurate policy guidance

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Experience in launching new strategies and Zero-to-One initiatives
Advanced degree in law, policy, political science, engineering, cybersecurity or other related field
Expertise related to adversarial actors and influence operations in multiple markets and regions
Proficient in multiple languages relevant to this work
Previous experience at a fast-moving internet platform company

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