Data Understanding Specialist - Spanish Market - Kuala Lumpur

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.

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. Proficient in English and Spanish is required. English will be utilized as the primary language for work, while Spanish will be used for market specific projects.
2. 0-3 years of full-time working experience with data/business analytics education/experience - internships highly valued
3. Proficiency in data interpretation and analysis; Interest in AI and Machine Learning concepts, particularly in the field of data annotation
4. Excellent verbal and written communication skills for clear and effective communication with both requestors and labellers
5. Demonstrates learning agility with strong problem solving skills
6. Self-starter who is driven to deliver impactful outcomes

Preferred qualifications:
1. Some experience in project management with organizational skills to manage multiple tasks concurrently, preferably in a data environment
2. Strong technical skills in Excel, SQL and scripting languages (Python, R) are a plus

Job Information

About TikTok

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and we also have offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us

Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect - and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we work towards every day.

We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.

Diversity & Inclusion

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.