Risk Strategy Specialist, Governance Operations, Ads; Mandarin Speaking

Risk Strategy Specialist, Governance Operations, Tik Tok Ads (Mandarin Speaking)

Location:

San Jose

Employment Type:

Regular

Job Code: A52053B

Responsibilities:

About the team We are part of Global Monetization Product and Technology-Business Integrity-Governance. The Actor Strategy team focuses on securing the ad platform by tackling risks in the advertising ecosystem—such as fraud, impersonation, account takeover (ATO), over-spending, small bad debts, and spam registrations. We balance risk management with user experience to support Tik Tok Ads' healthy growth. The team continuously enhances its capabilities through platformization, intelligence, and automation, driving smart solutions powered by AI agents, machine learning models, and strategic rules.

Responsibilities:

1. Metric Ownership & Outcome Delivery
- Own core risk metrics: define monitoring definitions, break down targets, conduct trend insights and root-cause analysis, and produce clear conclusions with prioritized action plans.

2. Strategy Ops & Cross-functional Closure
- Work closely with Product, Engineering, and Algorithms to convert operational risk signals into executable solutions (strategy rules, model requirements, enforcement workflows, platform capabilities), and drive launch + iteration.

3. Evidence-based Governance & Automation
- Promote evidence-based governance: define evidence chain standards and traceable review/enforcement mechanisms to improve interpretability and auditability.

4. Mechanisms & Incident Response
- Build incident response mechanisms for high-risk events: quickly identify issues, mobilize cross-functional mitigation, run postmortems, and turn lessons into long-term system improvements—raising overall stability and response efficiency.

Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

- 3+ years of experience in risk control / anti-fraud / Trust & Safety / ads integrity / risk strategy, with proven ownership of metric outcomes.

- Strong data analytics skills: SQL required; able to independently build metric frameworks, perform attribution analysis, build dashboards, and evaluate impact (A/B tests, holdout, pre/post comparisons).

- Solid strategy ops methodology: risk discovery → rules/model/process design → launch iteration → monitoring & retros → platformized capability building.

- Strong cross-functional communication and execution: able to explain complex problems clearly, align key stakeholders, and drive delivery to launch.

- Fast learner with strong adaptability: quickly understands new business models, evolving attack patterns, and new tech, and turns them into actionable plans.

- High proficiency in English and Mandarin listening, speaking, reading and writing. Both English and Mandarin skill sets are required to support clients in China and to communicate with stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience in ads ecosystem risk, payments risk, credit/bad debt, or account security (ATO).

- Familiar with common risk modeling approaches (LR/GBDT), feature engineering, threshold strategy, recall/precision trade-offs; practical understanding of LLM/Agent applicability and limits in governance.

- Experience building scalable platforms/workflows that move from "manual ops" to "system capability + automation."