Global Head of Durable Containment & Risk Strategy

TikTok; Dublin; On-site; EUR 220,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok seeks a Global Head of Long-Term Containment to lead the Long-Term Containment function. You own the strategy, performance and people of the global team tackling Hateful and Harassment Behavior, Violent Extremism, Youth Safety, and Account Integrity.

You will shape the global containment strategy, invest enforcement capacity, and drive durable mitigations while partnering with Policy, Product, and Operations. This role involves oversight of teams handling sensitive content.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Trust & Safety, Risk, or adjacent integrity domains.
• 5+ years of experience managing managers and leading larger organisations across multiple regions.
• Demonstrated experience owning enforcement or risk strategy across several harm areas at scale, with a clear record of shipping systemic, long-term mitigations.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders, align cross-functional teams, and represent a function to external partners.

Responsibilities

• Own the global long-term containment strategy across all prioritised harm verticals -e.g. Hateful and Harassment Behavior, Violent Extremism and Dangerous Actors, Youth Safety, and High-Risk Regulated Activities and Account Integrity
• Lead, develop, and grow a team of leaders who each manage a team of individual contributor analysts; coach your leaders, build the bench, and hold a consistent bar for performance and delivery across regions.
• Drive delivery for the function's headline outcomes, escalation reduction, prevalence, discoverability, and recidivism, and ensure the team is on track.
• Own and evolve the Long-Term Containment operating model, including the trend-led containment cycle, so escalation signals are expanded into long term mitigations rather than handled ticket by ticket.
• Partner with the Prevention teams to close the containment gaps their root cause analyses surface. Feed enforcement insight and signals back upstream to drive systemic, root-cause fixes across Policy, Product, and Operations.
• Represent the team to senior leadership, cross-functional partners, and external safety organizations and coalitions, shaping risk-mitigation strategy at scale and securing the alignment and resources the function needs.
• Drive operational rigor across roadmap, OKRs, and headcount planning, and champion the well-being, resilience, and well being best practices of a team exposed to sensitive content.

Skills

Leadership

Trust & Safety

Enforcement strategy

Stakeholder management

Data fluency

AI/LLM tooling

Tools

AI & LLM tooling

Job description

TikTok seeks a Global Head of Long-Term Containment to lead the Long-Term Containment function. You own the strategy, performance and people of the global team tackling Hateful and Harassment Behavior, Violent Extremism, Youth Safety, and Account Integrity.

You will shape the global containment strategy, invest enforcement capacity, and drive durable mitigations while partnering with Policy, Product, and Operations. This role involves oversight of teams handling sensitive content.