Data Scientist (Platform Governance), TikTok E-Commerce
Core
Build governance strategies and risk detection models to protect TikTok's e-commerce ecosystem from bad actors and define ecosystem health metrics.
Role type
Senior IC data scientist (platform governance & risk)
Builds
Risk detection rules/models, governance strategies, and monitoring dashboards
Domain
E-commerce platform governance, Trust & Safety
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Expert SQL, Python (Pandas, Scikit-learn), Tree-based models (XGBoost, LightGBM), Unsupervised Learning (Clustering), BI/Dashboarding tools (Tableau, PowerBI, Metabase), Root cause analysis
Preferred skills
Trust & Safety/Anti-Fraud experience, Metric system design from scratch, Business problem solving focus
Technologies
XGBoost, LightGBM, Scikit-learn, Tableau, PowerBI, Metabase
Responsibilities
Identify abuse patterns in seller/listing behaviors, develop offline ML models for risk scoring, define and standardize core governance metrics, build dashboards for risk visualization, monitor strategy precision/recall and analyze false positives, conduct root cause analysis on metric fluctuations
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
