Quality & Training Specialist, Live & Monetization - Lisbon - German Speaker (Fixed-term Contract)

TikTok; Lisboa; On-site; EUR 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok Lisbon is seeking a Quality & Training Specialist to enforce safety policies at scale. The role focuses on QA, RCA, policy interpretation, calibration, and cross-functional collaboration to improve moderation quality and operational efficiency.

You will work with German and English, engage stakeholders, and drive AI-enabled improvements while maintaining 20% allocation to training and policy cascading tasks. This is a fixed-term contract ending May 2027 in Lisbon.

Qualifications

• Experience in analytical audits and data integrity within a high-volume trust & safety environment.
• Strong RCA, trend identification, and ability to propose process optimizations.
• Deep understanding of policies/SOPs to judge complex/high-risk cases.
• Excellent stakeholder management; ability to lead calibration sessions and train cross-functional teams.
• Fluency in data visualization, reporting, and QA/calibration tools; ability to leverage AI to streamline workflows.
• Fluency in German for local market interactions, plus English as working language.
• Internal candidates must be G3 or above.

Responsibilities

• Quality Assurance & Auditing: conduct regular analytical audits of human moderation ensuring compliance with data protection and safety standards; target accuracy and appeal rates.
• Data Analysis & RCA: perform deep-dives into recurring quality issues via RCA and translate data into actionable feedback for guidelines and operations teams.
• Policy Interpretation & Judgment: provide expert judgments on complex/high‑risk cases; validate golden sets to guide enforcement accuracy.
• Calibration & Collaboration: lead calibration sessions for consistency across moderation teams; collaborate with BPO, PPS, PS, and OGS teams.
• Operational Oversight & Escalation: resolve edge cases quickly; cascade policies and updates across partners.
• Technical Reporting & AI Utilization: use QA dashboards and RCA tools to prepare weekly/monthly reports focusing on accuracy and gaps.
• Training & Policy Cascade: lead or support training on policy changes and operational updates; estimated 20% of monthly output.

Skills

Quality assurance

Data analysis

Root Cause Analysis

Policy interpretation

Calibration

Stakeholder management

Reporting tools

Training

AI utilization

German language

English language

Tools

QA dashboards

RCA tools

Calibration platforms

Data visualization tools

AI tools

Job description

Responsibilities

The Quality & Training Specialist (QTS) department ensures that safety policies are enforced accurately and consistently at scale. The Q&T Market Lead acts as the strategic bridge between high-level policy and boots-on-the-ground execution. While Specialists focus on quality assurance, the Lead focuses on systemic scalability, proactive operational risk identification and mitigation, and team excellence.

• This role requires commitment to work shifts, weekends, and public holidays as operational needs demand.
• Please note that this is a Fixed-Term Contract (FTC) position ending in May 2027.

What will I be doing?

• Quality Assurance & Auditing: Conduct regular analytical audits of human moderation, ensuring all processes comply with data protection and Trust & Safety standards while maintaining specific audit targets (e.g., Accuracy, RCA, and Appeal success rates).
• Data Analysis & RCA: Perform deep-dives into recurring quality issues through Root Cause Analysis (RCA), spot error patterns, and translate data into actionable feedback for Operational Guidelines & Standards and Operations Teams to drive continuous process optimization.
• Policy Interpretation & Curation: Act as an authority to provide expert judgment on complex, ambiguous, or high-risk cases under quality methodologies and processes (like KOM). Deeply interpret safety guidelines and validate "golden sets" (benchmark data) to guide enforcement accuracy.
• Calibration & Collaboration: Lead calibration sessions to ensure consistency across different moderation teams. Partner with cross‑functional stakeholders (BPO Partners, PPS, PS, and OGS teams) to simplify complex policy explanations and drive global quality goals.
• Operational Oversight & Escalation: Manage and resolve unprecedented "edge cases" with speed and accuracy. Drive policy cascading to ensure new policies & operational guidelines updates are 100% communicated and implemented across all relevant internal and external partners.
• Technical Reporting & AI Utilization: Leverage AI to improve performance and reduce manual, repetitive tasks. Utilize QA dashboards, RCA tools, and calibration platforms to prepare comprehensive weekly and monthly reports focusing on market accuracy, error trends, and policy gaps.
• Training & Policy Cascade: Lead or support training rollouts for new policy changes and operational guideline updates, especially for BPO staff, ensuring changes are clearly understood, operationalized, and consistently applied. This is estimated to take up around 20% of total monthly output deliverables.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

1. Quality Assurance Experience: Proven expertise in conducting analytical audits, tracking performance targets, and maintaining data integrity within a trust and safety, compliance, or high-volume operational environment.
2. Problem-Solving Skills and Ownership: Strong capability in conducting Root Cause Analysis (RCA), identifying trend patterns, and suggesting process optimizations that reduce error rates while maintaining high-speed moderation. High level of self‑motivation with the ability to operate independently, demonstrate end‑to‑end ownership, and thrive in a fast‑paced, ambiguous environment.
3. Policy Interpretation & Judgment: Deep understanding of content policies and SOPs, with the critical thinking skills required to make expert judgments on complex or high-risk escalation cases.
4. Cross-Functional Communication: Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to lead calibration sessions, deliver training, and partner with BPO and internal teams to align on global quality goals.
5. Technical & Reporting Proficiency: Fluency in data visualization, reporting, and utilizing QA/calibration tools. Ability to leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) to streamline workflows and provide actionable feedback on system functionality.
6. Fluency in German is required for interacting with local content and stakeholders in the German market, plus fluency in English as the primary working language.
7. For internal candidates, the current job level must be G3 or above.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Candidates with Live and Monetization policy knowledge will be preferred.

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.