QA Team Lead, Monetization Integrity (Mandarin Speaking)

Description

About the team
Monetization Integrity Ops plays a critical role in supporting TikTok's Trust & Safety objectives. Our primary focus is on delivering high-quality content moderation at optimal cost, ensuring minimal exposure of both the platform and advertisers to high-risk content.
From an advertiser's perspective, we are committed to driving consistency and accuracy in moderation outcomes, whether automated or human-led, so that brands can build trusted, long-term, and mutually beneficial commercial relationships with TikTok.

Guided by the MI team's broader mission to make TikTok the world's most trusted ecosystem and the easiest platform to advertise on, our work contributes to TikTok's overall success in several key ways:
- Enabling Growth: By creating a safe and reliable advertising environment that attracts and retains global partners.
- Ensuring Compliance: By upholding moderation standards that align with legal, regulatory, and brand safety requirements.
- Driving Innovation: By leveraging automation, data, and human expertise to continuously improve moderation outcomes.

Responsibilities
- QA Team Leadership & People Management
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of QA analysts and specialists, fostering a high-performance and accountable culture
- Set clear performance goals, conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development planning
- Manage capacity, workload allocation, and shift coverage to ensure consistent quality output across regions
- Quality Assurance Strategy & Execution
- Own the end-to-end QA strategy for moderation outcomes, including audit sampling, calibration, and quality scoring methodologies
- Define and maintain QA standards, rubrics, and SOPs aligned with policy and business requirements
- Drive consistency and accuracy of QA evaluations across markets and vendor sites
- Data-Driven Quality & Analytics
- Build and maintain QA dashboards, scorecards, and reporting cadences for leadership visibility
- Analyze defect trends, error patterns, and root causes to identify systemic quality gaps
- Translate insights into actionable improvement plans and influence prioritization decisions
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner with Product, Policy, Operations, Training, and WFM teams to drive quality improvements and close feedback loops
- Align regional and global stakeholders on consistent QA execution and shared quality KPIs
- Represent the QA function in governance forums and business reviews
- Process Optimization & Continuous Improvement
- Lead root cause analysis (RCA) and corrective/preventative action (CAPA) initiatives for recurring quality issues
- Identify automation and tooling opportunities to scale QA efficiency and reduce manual effort
- Champion a culture of continuous improvement, calibration, and operational excellence within the team

Requirements

Minimum Qualification(s)
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Risk, Engineering or related field
- 5+ years of experience in Risk Governance, Quality Assurance, Operations Management, or related functions, with at least 1 year in a people management or team lead role
- Proven track record leading and developing QA teams in a high-volume operations or content and advertiser moderation environment
- Strong expertise in risk governance and detection methodologies, audit sampling, calibration, and quality assurance frameworks
- Demonstrated experience using data and dashboards to drive quality decision-making and influence stakeholders
- Experience presenting QA performance and insights to leadership and cross-functional partners
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to coach team members and influence without authority; high oral and written proficiency in Mandarin is required as this role will cover Mandarin-speaking markets

Preferred Qualification(s)
- Experience managing ambiguity, prioritizing competing demands, and driving clarity in fast-paced environments