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Data Understanding Specialist - 2025 Start

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Data Understanding Specialist - 2025 Start

1 month agoKuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Viewed on April 23, 2025

Responsibilities

About the team
The Global Monetization Integrity team ensures TikTok users have a safe experience while viewing advertisements. They work closely with advertisers to create ad policies, manage content review processes, and more. As we continue to add advertising on TikTok, this team is critical in assuring a joyful and creative ads experience for the community.

About The Role
A Data Understanding Specialist is a critical player at the junction of data collection, model development, and project success. Their main responsibility is to act as a bridge between machine learning engineers and labellers, ensuring the accurate application of structure to unstructured data such as video, images, text, etc. supporting the building of world class machine learning solutions.

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We are looking for talented individuals to join us in 2025. As a graduate, you will get unparalleled opportunities for you to kickstart your career, pursue bold ideas and explore limitless growth opportunities. Co-create a future driven by your inspiration with TikTok.

Responsibilities:
1. Labelling rules clarification and training
- Define clear and unambiguous labelling rules to ensure high quality labelling output
- Simplify labelling rules to reduce contextual knowledge for labelling while providing training to labellers if needed
- Ensure that labelling rules meet model training requirements

2. Quality improvement and assurance
- Monitor and review quality of labelled data
- Timely root-cause identification of quality issues for remediation
- Identify opportunities and areas of improvement to optimize delivery

3. Project management
- Deliver projects on time and on target flagging any key risks that arise
- Deep dive into issues that arise during project lifecycle with solutions that ensure delivery
- Manage stakeholders to drive transparency across the data delivery pipeline

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:
1. Fresh graduate with up to 1 year of full-time working experience with data/business analytics education/experience - internships highly valued. Please indicate your graduation date (month + year) and notice period (if any) clearly in your resume
2. Proficiency in data interpretation and analysis; Interest in AI and Machine Learning concepts, particularly in the field of data annotation
3. Excellent verbal and written communication skills for clear and effective communication with both requestors and labellers
4. Demonstrates learning agility with strong problem solving skills
5. Self-starter who is driven to deliver impactful outcomes

Preferred qualifications:
1. Proficiency in any of the following languages is a plus for supporting respective markets: English will be the primary language for work, while Malay, Arabic, Indonesian, Spanish, Thai, Vietnamese, Portuguese, Filipino, French, German, Turkish, Japanese, Dutch, Russian, Polish, Italian, and Korean will be used for market-specific projects in their respective languages
2. Some experience in project management with organizational skills to manage multiple tasks concurrently, preferably in a data environment
3. Strong technical skills in Excel, SQL and scripting languages (Python, R) are a plus.

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If you have any questions, please reach out to us at apac-earlycareers@tiktok.com

Client-provided location(s): Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Job ID: TikTok-7478221136875751687
Employment Type: Full Time

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • Health Insurance
    • Dental Insurance
    • Vision Insurance
    • HSA
    • Life Insurance
    • Fitness Subsidies
    • Short-Term Disability
    • Long-Term Disability
    • On-Site Gym
    • Mental Health Benefits
    • Virtual Fitness Classes
  • Parental Benefits

    • Fertility Benefits
    • Adoption Assistance Program
    • Family Support Resources
  • Work Flexibility

    • Flexible Work Hours
    • Hybrid Work Opportunities
  • Office Life and Perks

    • Casual Dress
    • Snacks
    • Pet-friendly Office
    • Happy Hours
    • Some Meals Provided
    • Company Outings
    • On-Site Cafeteria
    • Holiday Events
  • Vacation and Time Off

    • Paid Vacation
    • Paid Holidays
    • Personal/Sick Days
    • Leave of Absence
  • Financial and Retirement

    • 401(K) With Company Matching
    • Performance Bonus
    • Company Equity
  • Professional Development

    • Promote From Within
    • Access to Online Courses
    • Leadership Training Program
    • Associate or Rotational Training Program
    • Mentor Program
  • Diversity and Inclusion

    • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program
    • Employee Resource Groups (ERG)

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