Policy Lead, Policy Scaling, Violent and Criminal Behaviors - Trust & Safety

TikTokHybridFull-timeSenior, 5–8 yearsListed 2 hours ago

Apply now

About this role

The Policy Scaling team serves as an essential governance function and bridges from policy principle to actual enforcement, ensuring that policies reflect and account for the nuances of actual content and user behavior, are consistently applied, and are continuously improved.

We are looking for a Policy Lead to drive governance and consistency of Violent and Criminal Behaviours policy enforcement across all surfaces and moderation methods. This role will lead a team of Policy Managers translating Violent and Criminal Behaviours policy intent into actionable guidance, producing high-quality evaluation data, and providing subject-matter expertise across human and automated workflows.

Responsibilities:
- Lead High-Quality Labeling & Evaluation Data: Lead your Violent and Criminal Behaviours issue area team on production of high-confidence labeled datasets to support policy performance evaluation across features and identify areas of ambiguity that need to be addressed through policy guidance.
- Maintain Policy Guidance: Author and maintain internal Violent and Criminal Behaviours policy guidance to ensure T&S teams are aligned on how to apply policies across a range of methodologies.
- Cross-Method Consistency Oversight: Evaluate how Violent and Criminal Behaviours policies are applied across human moderation, automation, and hybrid workflows — identifying gaps, drift, or unintended inconsistencies.
- Escalation Support: Provide subject-matter guidance and support to escalation teams handling high-complexity, nuanced Violent and Criminal Behaviours trends and enforcement decisions within your issue area.
- Structured Feedback for Policy Development: Identify ambiguity, operational friction, emerging harm patterns, and unintended consequences in Violent and Criminal Behaviours enforcement — and provide structured feedback to refine policy drafting.