Platform Operations Team Lead - TikTok Safety Product (San Jose)

About the Team The team is at the forefront of building and optimizing content safety systems. With a focus on optimising and advancing content safety, we leverage advanced large language models to enhance review efficiency, risk control, and user trust. Working closely with business and technical stakeholders, we deliver scalable solutions that keep pace with rapid global growth.

Responsibilities: Business operation excellence

• Investigate reported tickets/incidents across multiple channels for TikTok and coordinate fast & accurate response to global partners inquiries
• Manage the local ticket support operations team, formulate user operations strategies, optimize user feedback process, lead the team to effectively solve problems from user feedback
• Identify bottlenecks from daily operation, ticket data, audit data or members feedback. Design, implement solutions to mitigate/reduce inefficiency processes with data driven approach
• Strong execution on initiatives with strong priority management to ensure multiple priorities are on track
• Partner with cross-functional teams to localize strategies and ensure regional operational readiness

Local Team management

• Hire, motivate, coach and upskill team members to meet the business requirements
• Apply appropriate management strategies to develop and motivate team members, regularly communicate performance, expectations, tasks, and responsibilities with team members professionally, and drive the overall growth of the team via mentoring and coaching
• Plan for manpower arrangements and task allocations, to improve productivity, teamwork efficiency and work quality, other daily admin & operation support to direct managed members

Cross-functional Team Engagement

• Acting as main PoC for assigned domain and working internally with other regional support managers, externally with engineering and product teams to deliver solutions to user problems effectively, and to improve overall user support journey, product performance and stability
• Continue to optimize the knowledge and information sharing process, supervise and improve the efficiency of remote collaboration between cross-region and cross-cultural teams
• Represent regional operational needs and insights in global planning and reviews Minimum Qualifications:
• More than 5 years of experience in the Internet industry with 3+ years of team management experience with platform operations and product technical support team management experience
• Familiarity with content moderation workflows and its platform ecosystem operations or Trust & Safety Operations with Incident and risk management
• Deep understanding of ticket support workflows, platforms, and operational metrics
• Experience in escalations process management to technical issues
• Strong product, service process and project management
• Sensitivity to data indicators on system performance and stability, and strong data analysis and reporting capabilities

Preferred Qualifications

• Proactive, self-driven and able to manage through ambiguity and change
• Excellent communication and coordination skills
• Detail-orientated, excellent problem-solving and critical thinking skills
• Result-oriented, with a strong sense of responsibility, good attitude and priority management
• With a more mature working methodology, able to lead and train team members to maximize productivity, and improve performance
• Familiar with AI and automation tools used in customer support and service quality programs will be a plus.