About the Team:
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.

The Outreach and Partnerships Management team builds and leverages relationships with external stakeholders that drive safety improvements and build trust in the platform. We're looking for an Outreach and Partnerships Manager to advance our work in Brazil, establishing strategic relationships with key external stakeholders including academics, NGOs, and thought leaders.

As an Outreach & Partnerships Manager you are a primary contact between Global Trust & Safety and external stakeholders to gather feedback and test ideas that will enhance our global policies and products. In this role, you will work closely with the TikTok T&S Global Policy and Product teams, as well as cross-functional partners in Public Policy, Communications, Legal, and Ops to ensure that TikTok cultivates policies that promote creativity and joy while keeping our community safe. The role will require you to build on your deep experience with Brazilian stakeholders, contemporary global media (e.g., video, literature, fine arts), and expression (e.g., journalism, communications, linguistics) to engage with external experts.

Responsibilities:
- Research, identify, and collaborate with external voices and leverage their expertise and resources to develop corresponding safety programs to improve the Trust & Safety approach to key issue areas;
- Work with your Global Outreach and Partnerships colleagues to ensure that the development of our internal policies and features are informed by respected and diverse external voices;
- Communicate clearly and thoughtfully with a diverse T&S team located around the world;
- Build and develop relationships with all colleagues and key cross-functional partners for increased efficiency and effective responsiveness into existing projects, and help to define new operational strategies for the implementation of external feedback;
- Travel frequently to manage stakeholders and projects.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
- 5 years experience in project management or strategic outreach, engagement or communication experience;
- Experience and knowledge of the tech and platform safety focused NGO and academic expert community in Brazil;
- Effective communication and diplomacy skills for working collaboratively with cross-functional teams including product, operations, legal, and policy;
- Strong cross cultural or global communication background for technical and non-technical audiences and the ability to synthesize complex concepts in easy to understand ways;
- Availability to frequent travels to manage stakeholders and projects;
- Working proficiency in Portuguese is required as this role will mainly cover the Brazilian market.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Passion and study of issues related to marginalized voices including gender, race, religion, or political identity;
- Work experience in, or academic study of, advocacy or NGO organizations, start-ups/entrepreneurship and/or tech companies.

Trust & Safety recognizes 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.

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.

TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://shorturl.at/cdpT2