Governance Strategy and Analytics Associate

TikTok Inc.; San Jose (CA); Presencial; USD 122.000 - 209.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

TikTok Inc. in San Jose is seeking a policy operations leader to draft, iterate, and operationalize governance policies across cross-functional teams, translating rules into execution-ready materials for agents, sales teams, audit partners, and other stakeholders.

You will build risk metrics, design detection logic, and drive governance tooling with regional alignment and clear ownership, while moving from manual reviews to scalable workflows that reduce long-term dependency.

Formación

• 5+ years in strategy and operations, risk operations, policy operations, or related fields.
• Strong policy judgment and ability to translate requirements into rules.
• Strong data sense and analytical capability.
• Ability to identify incentive loopholes and connect policy to risk controls.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; capable of cross-regional collaboration.
• Self-driven, detail-oriented in a fast-paced environment.

Responsabilidades

• Draft, iterate, and operationalize governance policies and rule texts.
• Build new governance items from risk signals and define risk metrics.
• Map risk surfaces and design detection logic for ongoing governance.
• Investigate abnormal issues, clarify root causes, and drive actions with owners.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to move governance toward tool-based solutions.
• Establish cadences, documentation standards, and cross-regional communication.

Conocimientos

Policy operations

Data analysis

Project management

Communication

Cross-functional teams

Herramientas

SQL

Python

Descripción del empleo

Responsibilities

• Policy operations: Draft, iterate, and operationalize governance policies and rule texts. Align policy interpretation across cross-functional teams and translate rules into execution-ready materials, including policy language, alignment notes, and external-facing explanations for agents, sales teams, audit partners, and other stakeholders.
• Risk data analysis: Build new governance items from business and risk signals. Define, validate, and maintain risk identification metrics, and use data to monitor potential policy abuse, abnormal incentive behavior, and emerging risk patterns.
• Risk control architecture: Understand incentive policies, business workflows, and potential loopholes. Locate relevant data sources, map risk surfaces, and design detection logic that can support ongoing governance instead of one-off issue handling.
• Incident response: Investigate abnormal issues raised by business teams, clarify root causes, form evidence-based conclusions, and drive follow-up actions with clear owners and timelines.
• Project management: Partner with cross-functional teams to move governance capabilities from manual review toward tool-based and productized solutions, reducing long-term operational dependency.
• Build operating cadences, documentation standards, and cross-functional communication mechanisms that keep policy, risk, and tooling work aligned across regions, time zones, and stakeholder groups.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualification(s)

• 5+ years of experience in strategy and operations, risk operations, policy operations, business operations, consulting, analytics, audit, trust and safety, or a related field.
• Strong structured thinking and policy judgment, with the ability to convert ambiguous business requirements into clear rules, operating processes, and decision criteria.
• Strong data sense and analytical capability.
• Ability to understand incentive mechanisms, identify potential loopholes, and connect policy design with operational and data-based risk controls.
• Strong project management skills, including stakeholder alignment, requirement clarification, dependency management, issue tracking, and execution follow-through.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Able to explain complex policy and risk topics clearly to business, technical, audit, and external stakeholder audiences.
• Self-driven, detail-oriented, and comfortable working in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment with cross-regional teams.

Preferred Qualification(s)

• Experience using SQL, Python, or other data analysis and visualization tools
• Experience in digital advertising, e-commerce, creator monetization, incentive governance, sales operations, or platform risk governance.
• Experience designing operational metrics, risk dashboards, detection rules, or product requirements for governance tooling.
• Experience working with audit, compliance, sales, agent management, or external partner governance scenarios.
• Comfortable bridging business, data, and product teams, and able to turn repeated manual processes into scalable workflows or tool requirements.

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $121600 - $208800 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

• Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:
• 1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
• 2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
• 3. Exercising sound judgment.