Political and Regulatory Risk Manager, Global Business Solutions - London

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Responsibilities

Why TikTok
TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and its offices include New York, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us
Creation is the core of TikTok's purpose. Our platform is built to help imagination thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make TikTok possible.
Together, we inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we all believe in and aim towards achieving every day.
To us, every challenge, no matter how difficult, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always.
At TikTok, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the communities we serve.
Join us.

About the Team:
The Global Monetization Integrity (MI) team is responsible for ensuring that all monetized content on TikTok is safe, ethical and high quality through creation of innovative, scalable solutions designed to ensure TikTok users and businesses are protected.

Monetization Integrity is composed of Policy, Operations, Risk, and Data specialists working cross-functionally with key stakeholders (Legal, GR, PR, Engineering, Product, Sales, etc) to design and optimize advertising policies, manage moderation processes and iterate risk controls and systems driving efficiencies. The MI Political and Regulatory Risk Pod serves these teams by addressing key political and regulatory risk concerns at a platform, product, process and policy level. Identifying risks along these four key pillars, we will seek to provide insights, increase efficiency, improve risk governance, and expand co-governance collaboration in collaboration with key MI policy and risk stakeholders and with cross functional teams. Risk managers within this pod will support this mission by providing subject matter expertise and project management leadership in order to build long term strategy and respond to emergent political risks posing a risk to TikTok's business at a regional and global level.

This pod will lead MI policy risk and integrity wide efforts to develop a platform-holistic political risk strategy with objectives aligned at the TikTok level, and in line with current and future regulatory trends. As such, this pod will serve as the subject matter experts on political risk to TikTok's advertising business both internally and externally. Risk Managers within this pod will require excellent problem-solving skills, a high understanding of risks associated with political content and the global regulatory environment, an enthusiasm for identifying and managing remedies for gaps in existing risk control mechanisms from conception to completion. The ideal candidate has experience in analysis of future and existing risk areas, can thrive in ambiguous environments, identify trade-offs, prioritize key tasks, and execute decisions with limited information in high-pressure situations.

Responsibilities:
- Own global strategies for risk control across policy, process, and platform risks, including identifying and managing project risks and issues, including preparing and implementing risk mitigation and issue resolution strategies.
- Collaborate with local and global operations teams, consisting of internal and external personnel, to ensure project success, including communicating regularly with stakeholders to keep them informed of project progress, risks, and issues.
- Manage changes to project scope, schedule, and budget, and ensure that change requests are appropriately initiated, reviewed, and approved
- Build and implement processes and structures to increase efficiency and scalability of risk controls in the political and regulatory space.
- Provide consultation to Integrity leadership on related subjects,including regulatory risk trends, political risk control gaps, and emergent threats
- Spearhead end-to-end Policy Development, Policy Enforcement, and Escalation Management for emerging Policy issues such as Mis/Disinformation, Artificial Intelligence, Elections Integrity, and Political content and actor policies.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience required in public policy, business administration, political science, or another related field.
- 2+ years in digital advertising, risk prevention and identification, or analysis.
- Experience in developing project plans, roadmaps, and ability to lead and manage internal and external project teams.
- Knowledge of legal and regulatory requirements related to policy development and implementation, especially prior experience of regulatory audit.
- Strong interpersonal skills with proven ability to collaborate, foster relationships and work cross-functionally, especially with diverse global teams in numerous time zones.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills to drive consensus building and decision making for senior leadership

Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in Government Relations, Public Policy, Outreach Partnership Management, and Content Policy preferred.
- Ability to identify and solve complex problems.

TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.