Search Evaluation & Investigation – Specialist

Responsibilities

About ByteDance

Founded in 2012, ByteDance’s mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok, Helo, and Resso, as well as platforms specific to the China market, including Toutiao, Douyin, and Xigua, ByteDance has made it easier and more fun for people to connect with, consume, and create content.

Why Join Us

Creation is the core of ByteDance’s purpose. Our products are built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make our innovations possible.

Together, we inspire creativity and enrich life – a mission we aim towards achieving every day.

To us, every challenge, no matter how ambiguous, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always.

At ByteDance, we create together and grow together. That’s how we drive impact – for ourselves, our company, and the users we serve.

Join us.

ByteDance is a part of a global internet technology group operating a range of content platforms, including TikTok, that inform, educate, entertain and inspire people across languages, cultures and geographies.

About Trust & Safety

Building a world where people can safely discover, create and connect. The Trust & Safety (T&S) team at TikTok helps ensure that our global online community is safe and empowered to create and enjoy content across all of our applications. We have invested heavily in human and machine-based moderation to remove harmful content quickly and often before it reaches our general community.

About The Team

The Search Operations team aims to improve search user experience, contribute significant DAU impact to the products and drive for increase in traffic and GMV.

The T&S evaluation and investigation team, working closely with the search team, taking the evaluation standards as the baseline and principles, and manually evaluating the search query and the corresponding search results page to reflect the real user experience of the search function.

The team is committed to providing search and evaluation services for international products, with resource support provided by different countries around the world, and global members conduct evaluations according to unified guidelines. The evaluation scope covers multiple search sections, such as basic search experience, recommended search, search advertising, and search security. As a bridge for business communication domestically and abroad, the team is responsible for key nodes such as standard writing, training Q&A, report output, and human efficiency management to effectively promote the execution and implementation of projects.

It is possible that this role will be exposed to harmful content as part of the core role/as part of project/ in response to escalation requests/by chance.

This may occur in the form of 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.

What I will be doing?

• Complete regular assessments relating to search quality in accordance with evaluation standard documents
• Judging user search needs through various queries and tools, and sorting out the classification of requirements
• Comb the types of search bad cases and rate the quality of the results
• Provide ideal search results and feedback suggestions for policy improvement
• While it is assumed the evaluator will focus on their area of expertise, there will be occasions in which he/she will work on projects outside this core area that could require other capabilities, such as using assessment methods flexibly to support related projects.
• Willing to work with sensitive issues that include child exploitation, a variety of religious and political views, violence, adult & sexual content
• And any other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or above, or relevant work experience
• Excellent language skills, (Tagalog & English)
• Knowledge about search engines, familiar with social media platforms, bportecters addicted to Tiktok
• An in-depth understanding of local culture and familiarity with the Internet usage habits of local users
• Strong ability to learn and understand

Preferred Qualifications

• Overseas working/training is a plus
• Familiar with common office software, search evaluation experience is preferred

Trust & Safety recognises that keeping our platform safe for 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.

ByteDance 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 ByteDance, our mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. 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.