TikTok
Global Head of Long-Term Containment - Trust & Safety
San Jose, California · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in Trust & Safety, Risk, or adjacent integrity domains; 5+ years managing managers and leading larger organisations across multiple regions.
About the job
Leads TikTok’s global Long-Term Containment function, setting enforcement strategy and managing leaders who deliver durable mitigations for persistent, high-severity harms.
What you'll do
- Set global containment strategy and allocate enforcement capacity across prioritized harm areas; own outcomes such as prevalence, discoverability, escalation reduction, and recidivism.
- Lead and develop regional leaders, establish operating models and performance standards, and oversee roadmap, OKRs, and headcount planning.
- Partner with Prevention and cross-functional teams to turn escalation signals into systemic mitigations, and represent the function to leadership and external safety organizations.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of experience in Trust & Safety, Risk, or adjacent integrity domains.
- 5+ years of experience managing managers and leading larger organisations across multiple regions.
- Demonstrated ownership of enforcement or risk strategy across several harm areas at scale, with a record of shipping systemic, long-term mitigations.
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder-management skills, including influencing senior leaders and representing a function to external partners.
Nice to have
- Strong data fluency and experience partnering with Data Science, Product and Engineering teams on metrics, measurement, and tooling.
- Experience scaling Trust & Safety, enforcement, or investigations organizations; direct experience in two or more harm domains; or embedding AI and LLM tooling into Trust & Safety workflows.
Tools
AI, LLM
AI focus
Preferred experience embedding AI and LLM tooling into Trust & Safety workflows to improve analyst throughput, enforcement precision, or detection of adversarial content.
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