Global Head of Risk Intelligence – Proactive Detection

TikTok; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 159,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok in San Jose is seeking a Global Head of Risk Intelligence to lead and scale the Risk Intelligence function within Trust and Safety. You will shape priorities, guide proactive risk detection, and partner with Product, Data Science, and Engineering to improve detection inputs and workflows.

This leadership role requires strong judgment, experience building teams, and a deep understanding of intelligence-driven risk analysis.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in intelligence, risk, trust and safety, investigations, operations, product strategy, or related fields.
• Experience managing and developing high-performing teams.
• Experience leading complex, cross-functional work in fast-moving and ambiguous environments.
• Excellent judgment and the ability to make thoughtful decisions in high-stakes or ambiguous situations. Strong analytical and quantitative skills, with the ability to use data to identify issues, prioritize opportunities, and inform decisions.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to influence across a matrixed organization.
• Demonstrated experience applying automation or AI-enabled solutions to improve how work gets done.
• Demonstrated ability to improve systems, workflows, or operating models — not only execute within existing ones.

Responsibilities

• Lead, develop, and grow a high-performing Risk Intelligence team responsible for intelligence collection, analysis, and putting intelligence to work in support of proactive risk detection.
• Translate team and organizational priorities into clear execution plans, operating mechanisms, and measurable outcomes.
• Improve how intelligence is collected, structured, stored, and acted on — strengthening channels across first-party and third-party sources so signals more reliably inform detection and decision-making.
• Work cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, and Data Science to improve detection inputs, data collection, internal tooling, reporting, and scalable intelligence workflows.
• Identify operational gaps and drive improvements across the intelligence lifecycle, including opportunities to automate or augment workflows through structured data, rules, machine learning, and AI-enabled solutions where appropriate.
• Define and track clear measures of impact, including improvements in detection quality, operational efficiency, and upstream prevention.
• Build a healthy, high-standards team culture grounded in sound judgment, clear communication, strong partnership, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Leadership

Analytical skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Data-driven decision making

AI/automation experience

Stakeholder management

Tools

OSINT tools

Job description

TikTok in San Jose is seeking a Global Head of Risk Intelligence to lead and scale the Risk Intelligence function within Trust and Safety. You will shape priorities, guide proactive risk detection, and partner with Product, Data Science, and Engineering to improve detection inputs and workflows.

This leadership role requires strong judgment, experience building teams, and a deep understanding of intelligence-driven risk analysis.