Quality Assurance Lead

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok has global offices including Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul and Tokyo.
Why Join Us
At TikTok, our people are humble, intelligent, compassionate and creative. We create to inspire - for you, for us, and for more than 1 billion users on our platform. We lead with curiosity and aim for the highest, never shying away from taking calculated risks and embracing ambiguity as it comes. Here, the opportunities are limitless for those who dare to pursue bold ideas that exist just beyond the boundary of possibility. Join us and make impact happen with a career at TikTok.
Description
E-commerce's Governance and Experience (GNE) is a global team responsible for ensuring our marketplace is safe and trustworthy for not only our users, but also sellers and creators. We value user satisfaction and work on policies, rules and systems to ensure quality. Service and Experience Team (SET) is part of the GNE organization. Our mission is to provide world-class service and experience for customers, sellers and creators. SET is looking for a Quality Assurance Lead to be responsible for maintaining an effective QA processes within the service delivery team. For new country launch, the role is also responsible for the SOP setup, local language translation, system and process test to meet the launch readiness requirements.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Ensure quality framework is in place based on the business types/facts by coordinating across regions and stakeholders.
- Implement clear overall quality strategy with scalable process, tools and systems that allow efficient monitoring of performance versus target.
- Access quality issues, conduct root cause analysis, recommend insights, develop improvement plans, and collaborate with operations team to improve quality performance.
- Research and understand customer expectations and needs to drive their satisfaction.
- Identify and develop individualized and group training plans to address varying needs.
- Effectively communicate updates and developments with team members, trainers and management.
- Produce statistical reports and insights on quality performance.
- Be responsible for the initial SOP setup, local language translation, system and process test to meet the launch readiness requirements when business expands to new countries.
- Manage the team on day-to-day basis and provide the first hand support to team internal escalations.
- Work with internal Quality Monitoring and Training teams to train new hires / teams through intensive coaching and mentoring. Ensure the team is fully trained and prepared to conduct the responsibilities of their role. Proactively identify and resolve issues impacting the service delivery team by working with team, peers, and management.
- Implement policies and processes to ensure a positive, productive work environment, build team morale, and recognize employee achievements.
- Contribute to special projects, that enhance the business, including projects involving root-cause analysis of weak performance metrics, service readiness projects, and tools projects as assigned or requested by management.
- Actively manage direct reports, including establishing OKR goals for teams, providing feedback, coaching them to improve service quality, increase productivity and to achieve customer satisfaction. Monitor OKR progress against established milestones.
- Conduct trend analyses on customer satisfaction and other core measurements. Implement strategies to improve future operation results.
- Manage and monitor staff and team level utilization rates, team productivity, and schedule adherence (manage absenteeism and timecard issues) to make sure the final productivity goals are met.
- Work with the Readiness, SOP, Training and System teams to optimize new and existing processes impacting customers/sellers/creators.
- Maintain the weekly/monthly/bi-monthly reviews with teams and internal stakeholders.
- Work with Recruiting / Staffing teams to identify, interview, and recruit top talents for all QA openings.