- Singapore
TikTok Hiring! Full Time Head of Regional Policy - APAC, Trust and Safety in - Ricebowl
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Job Description
Responsibilities
Responsibilities
The Trust & Safety Policy team develops and maintains community and content policies that promote a safe, trusted, and inclusive environment for users and content creators.
As the Head of Regional Policy, Asia Pacific, you will lead a high-performing, multi-cultural team responsible for shaping and delivering regionally harmonized product policy positions across a highly diverse and regulated landscape. You will operate at the intersection of policy, regulation, and product design—balancing global consistency with regional legal, cultural, and regulatory requirements.
This role requires deep expertise in harm prevention, risk assessment, and policy frameworks, as well as strong judgment in high-scrutiny environments involving regulators, public stakeholders, and executive leadership.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a high-performing regional policy team, fostering strong policy judgment, collaboration, and accountability across Asia Pacific.
- Own the development of regionally harmonized product policy positions, balancing global policy consistency with regional legal, regulatory, and cultural requirements across Asia Pacific markets.
- As a member of the Global Policy leadership team, provide regional expertise and strategic input to shape mission-critical global policy decisions.
- Partner closely with Legal, Compliance, Global Public Policy, Product, Operations, and Communications teams to ensure policies are defensible, enforceable, and aligned with regulatory obligations, including the EU Digital Services Act and national online safety frameworks.
- Act as a executive regional escalation point for high-risk and emergency content safety cases, including issues with regulatory, legal, or reputational impact, coordinating timely cross-functional decision-making.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in Trust & Safety, Public Policy, Law, Academia, Technology or a related field within a high-growth environment, including 2+ years of people management experience with a proven track record of leading culturally diverse teams across APAC.
- APAC Market Expertise: Deep understanding of the diverse cultural, political, and regulatory landscapes across the Asia Pacific region.
- Subject Matter Expertise: Deep understanding of content policy, online safety, integrity, and authenticity challenges, as well as the unique dynamics of social media platforms.
- Communication Excellence: Exceptional ability to synthesize highly complex, high-risk topics into clear, strategic narratives for executives, external stakeholders, and broad audiences.
- Cross-Functional Alliance Building: Strong collaborative skills with proven experience navigating competing priorities alongside product, technical, legal, and operational teams.
- Technical & Analytical Aptitude: High technical fluency with the ability to navigate complex tools, systems, and emerging technologies, paired with a strong understanding of how data science informs policy development.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience directly engaging with key external stakeholders, including policymakers, regulators, academics, or civil society organizations.
- Advanced degree (JD, MPP, MBA, or equivalent) in public policy, law, data science, or a related field.
Trust & Safety
Content that this role interacts with includes images, video, and text related to every-day life, but it can also include (but is not limited to) bullying; hate speech; child safety; depictions of harm to self and others, and harm to animals. Hence, it is possible that this role will be exposed to harmful content on a daily basis.
TikTok recognises that keeping our platform safe for the TikTok communities is no ordinary job which can be both rewarding and psychologically demanding and emotionally taxing for some. This is why we are sharing the potential hazards, risks and implications in this unique line of work from the start, so our candidates are well informed before joining.
We are committed to the wellbeing of all our employees and promise to provide comprehensive and evidence-based programs, to promote and support physical and mental wellbeing throughout each employee's journey with us. We believe that wellbeing is a relationship and that everyone has a part to play, so we work in collaboration and consultation with our employees and across our functions in order to ensure a truly person-centred, innovative and integrated approach.
About 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 we also have offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.
Why Join Us
Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we work towards every day.
We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.
Diversity & Inclusion
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.
The Trust & Safety Policy team develops and maintains community and content policies that promote a safe, trusted, and inclusive environment for users and content creators.
As the Head of Regional Policy, Asia Pacific, you will lead a high-performing, multi-cultural team responsible for shaping and delivering regionally harmonized product policy positions across a highly diverse and regulated landscape. You will operate at the intersection of policy, regulation, and product design—balancing global consistency with regional legal, cultural, and regulatory requirements.
This role requires deep expertise in harm prevention, risk assessment, and policy frameworks, as well as strong judgment in high-scrutiny environments involving regulators, public stakeholders, and executive leadership.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a high-performing regional policy team, fostering strong policy judgment, collaboration, and accountability across Asia Pacific.
- Own the development of regionally harmonized product policy positions, balancing global policy consistency with regional legal, regulatory, and cultural requirements across Asia Pacific markets.
- As a member of the Global Policy leadership team, provide regional expertise and strategic input to shape mission-critical global policy decisions.
- Partner closely with Legal, Compliance, Global Public Policy, Product, Operations, and Communications teams to ensure policies are defensible, enforceable, and aligned with regulatory obligations, including the EU Digital Services Act and national online safety frameworks.
- Act as a executive regional escalation point for high-risk and emergency content safety cases, including issues with regulatory, legal, or reputational impact, coordinating timely cross-functional decision-making.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in Trust & Safety, Public Policy, Law, Academia, Technology or a related field within a high-growth environment, including 2+ years of people management experience with a proven track record of leading culturally diverse teams across APAC.
- APAC Market Expertise: Deep understanding of the diverse cultural, political, and regulatory landscapes across the Asia Pacific region.
- Subject Matter Expertise: Deep understanding of content policy, online safety, integrity, and authenticity challenges, as well as the unique dynamics of social media platforms.
- Communication Excellence: Exceptional ability to synthesize highly complex, high-risk topics into clear, strategic narratives for executives, external stakeholders, and broad audiences.
- Cross-Functional Alliance Building: Strong collaborative skills with proven experience navigating competing priorities alongside product, technical, legal, and operational teams.
- Technical & Analytical Aptitude: High technical fluency with the ability to navigate complex tools, systems, and emerging technologies, paired with a strong understanding of how data science informs policy development.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience directly engaging with key external stakeholders, including policymakers, regulators, academics, or civil society organizations.
- Advanced degree (JD, MPP, MBA, or equivalent) in public policy, law, data science, or a related field.
Trust & Safety
Content that this role interacts with includes images, video, and text related to every-day life, but it can also include (but is not limited to) bullying; hate speech; child safety; depictions of harm to self and others, and harm to animals. Hence, it is possible that this role will be exposed to harmful content on a daily basis.
TikTok recognises that keeping our platform safe for the TikTok communities is no ordinary job which can be both rewarding and psychologically demanding and emotionally taxing for some. This is why we are sharing the potential hazards, risks and implications in this unique line of work from the start, so our candidates are well informed before joining.
We are committed to the wellbeing of all our employees and promise to provide comprehensive and evidence-based programs, to promote and support physical and mental wellbeing throughout each employee's journey with us. We believe that wellbeing is a relationship and that everyone has a part to play, so we work in collaboration and consultation with our employees and across our functions in order to ensure a truly person-centred, innovative and integrated approach.
About 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 we also have offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.
Why Join Us
Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we work towards every day.
We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.
Diversity & Inclusion
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.
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