Data Specialist, Indonesian Market - KL

Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Until 8/22/2026 1+ years exp H-1B sponsor history First posted May 14, 2026 Last posted May 14, 2026
Job description

Description

Team Introduction
TikTok DCC (Data Cycling Centre):
The team focuses on building data-driven solutions and enhancing content understanding for both internal stakeholders and external users, aiming to solve significant problems through a combination of human and direct content understanding

About the role:
A Data Understanding Specialist (Indonesian speaking) 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 for Indonesian content such as video, images, text, etc. supporting the building of world class machine learning solutions.

Responsibilities
Labelling rules clarification and training
- Define clear and unambiguous labelling rules for Indonesian-content in the Indonesian market to ensure high quality labelling output
- Simplify labelling rules to reduce contextual knowledge for labelling while providing training to Indonesian labellers if needed
- Ensure that labelling rules meet model training requirements for the Indonesian market

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

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 Indonesian-speaking stakeholders to drive transparency across the data delivery pipeline

Requirements

Minimum Qualification(s):
- Fluency in Indonesian is required as the role requires communication with Indonesian markets & stakeholders, as well as fluency in English as it is the working language.
- Minimum 1 year experience with data/business analytics education/experience
- Proficiency in data interpretation and analysis; Interest in AI and Machine Learning concepts, particularly in the field of data annotation
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills for clear and effective communication with both requestors and labellers
- Some experience in project management with organizational skills to manage multiple tasks concurrently, preferably in a data environment
- Demonstrates learning agility with strong problem solving skills

Preferred Qualification(s)
- Strong technical skills in Excel, SQL and scripting languages (Python, R) are a plus
- Self-starter who is driven to deliver impactful outcomes

About this role

Summary

Manage data labelling, quality, and projects for Indonesian content at TikTok.

Job title

Data Specialist, Indonesian Market - KL

Experience level

1+ years

Minimum experience

1+ years exp

Industry

technology

Location requirements

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; remote work not specified

Salary

Not specified

Visa sponsorship

H-1B sponsor history

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

fluency in Indonesianfluency in Englishdata interpretationcommunicationproject management

Preferred skills

ExcelSQLPythonR

Specializations

content understandingdata annotationquality assuranceproject management
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Work arrangement unknown City
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