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Director Operational Excellence roles qualify for E-3 visa sponsorship as specialty occupations requiring a bachelor's degree in engineering, business, or a related field. Australian professionals can secure two-year renewable E-3 status with no lottery and no annual cap, making this one of the most direct paths to U.S. leadership roles in process improvement and organizational strategy.
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About The Team
The Launch & Enablement team serves as the operational backbone for TikTok's Trust & Safety organization. We design, build, and scale the processes that protect our community. As a Workflow Strategist, you will be the architect of our global moderation ecosystem. You will decide how, where, and by whom content is reviewed, ensuring our operations are efficient, effective, and ready for the future. Your work is critical to enabling our teams to execute with precision and keeping the platform safe for millions of users.
Responsibilities:
You are a strategic operator and a master of complex systems. You excel at seeing the big picture, designing global workflows, while flawlessly managing the details of implementation. You are highly analytical, using data to determine the optimal path forward for any given challenge. You are a natural collaborator and communicator, capable of partnering with internal experts, scaled vendors, and technical teams to drive continuous improvement and operational excellence.
Strategic Allocation & Queue Management
- Analyze all incoming moderation workstreams to assess their complexity, risk, volume, and strategic importance.
- Determine the optimal allocation for each workstream, deciding whether it should be handled by the specialist in-house incubation team, a scaled BPO partner, or a hybrid model.
- Own the master plan for work allocation and prioritization across the entire global network, managing queues and routing to ensure all operational SLAs are met or exceeded.
- Develop and maintain clear, concise, and accessible technical documentation for all workflows, serving as the single source of truth for both internal teams and BPO partners.
New Workflow Implementation & Enablement
- Lead the operational rollout and implementation of new moderation queues, policies and product features across our in-house and BPO teams.
- Partner closely with the Incubation team to pilot, test, and refine new processes before scaling them to our global partners.
- Develop comprehensive implementation plans for BPO launches in partnership with Partner Operations.
- Define the future state of workflows, preparing for their eventual integration and rollout to BPO partners.
Continuous Improvement & Optimization
- Proactively analyze performance data, moderator feedback, and quality metrics to identify opportunities for improving the efficiency and accuracy of existing workflows.
- Serve as a key strategic partner to Product and Engineering, using data-driven insights to recommend and test improvements to moderation tools, AI models, and internal systems.
- Establish and manage a formal feedback loop (e.g., via Spark) to ensure BPO partner insights on policy and tooling are systematically collected, analyzed, and addressed in partnership with our Partner Operations team.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
- 3+ years of experience in operations, program management, process excellence, or a similar strategic role within a technical or product-focused environment.
- Proven ability to manage complex, cross-functional projects from inception to completion.
- Strong analytical skills with experience using data to drive strategic decisions.
- Exceptional communication and documentation skills, with the ability to articulate complex operational plans to diverse audiences.
Preferred Qualifications
- Direct experience in Trust & Safety operations.
- Significant experience working with and managing BPO/vendor relationships and performance.
- Experience in a "launch," "go-to-market," or "enablement" function responsible for rolling out new processes or products.
- Familiarity with process optimization methodologies (e.g., Six Sigma, Lean).
- Experience with data analysis and visualization tools (e.g., SQL, Tableau).
Trust & Safety
Content that this role interacts with includes images, video, and text related to everyday life, but it can also include (but is not limited to) bullying; hate speech; child safety; depictions of harm to self and others, and harm to animals. Hence, it is possible that this role will be exposed to harmful content on a daily basis.
TikTok recognizes that keeping our platform safe for the 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.
About USDS
TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is dedicated to the safety and security of millions of Americans who create, discover, and connect with what they love on the apps we operate. The Joint Venture has been established in compliance with the Executive Order signed by President Trump on September 25, 2025. Our foundation is a comprehensive data privacy and cybersecurity program we operate under defined safeguards to protect national security and secure U.S. user data, apps and the algorithm. We safeguard the U.S. content ecosystem, holding decision-making authority for trust and safety policies and moderation. USDS Joint Venture helps ensure Americans can continue to express their creativity, discover new hobbies and interests, and build thriving communities and businesses on a global scale.
On-site presence across teams allows the company to operate with greater speed, alignment, and agility — especially in areas like real-time decision-making, team development, and integrated execution. As such, the company is shifting from a hybrid work model to a fully in-person schedule up to 5 days a week.
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.
USDS Reasonable Accommodation
USDS 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://tinyurl.com/USDS-RA
Job Information
【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $96000 - $168889 annually. Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.
Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).
The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:
1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
3. Exercising sound judgment.
Responsibilities
About The Team
The Launch & Enablement team serves as the operational backbone for TikTok's Trust & Safety organization. We design, build, and scale the processes that protect our community. As a Workflow Strategist, you will be the architect of our global moderation ecosystem. You will decide how, where, and by whom content is reviewed, ensuring our operations are efficient, effective, and ready for the future. Your work is critical to enabling our teams to execute with precision and keeping the platform safe for millions of users.
Responsibilities:
You are a strategic operator and a master of complex systems. You excel at seeing the big picture, designing global workflows, while flawlessly managing the details of implementation. You are highly analytical, using data to determine the optimal path forward for any given challenge. You are a natural collaborator and communicator, capable of partnering with internal experts, scaled vendors, and technical teams to drive continuous improvement and operational excellence.
Strategic Allocation & Queue Management
- Analyze all incoming moderation workstreams to assess their complexity, risk, volume, and strategic importance.
- Determine the optimal allocation for each workstream, deciding whether it should be handled by the specialist in-house incubation team, a scaled BPO partner, or a hybrid model.
- Own the master plan for work allocation and prioritization across the entire global network, managing queues and routing to ensure all operational SLAs are met or exceeded.
- Develop and maintain clear, concise, and accessible technical documentation for all workflows, serving as the single source of truth for both internal teams and BPO partners.
New Workflow Implementation & Enablement
- Lead the operational rollout and implementation of new moderation queues, policies and product features across our in-house and BPO teams.
- Partner closely with the Incubation team to pilot, test, and refine new processes before scaling them to our global partners.
- Develop comprehensive implementation plans for BPO launches in partnership with Partner Operations.
- Define the future state of workflows, preparing for their eventual integration and rollout to BPO partners.
Continuous Improvement & Optimization
- Proactively analyze performance data, moderator feedback, and quality metrics to identify opportunities for improving the efficiency and accuracy of existing workflows.
- Serve as a key strategic partner to Product and Engineering, using data-driven insights to recommend and test improvements to moderation tools, AI models, and internal systems.
- Establish and manage a formal feedback loop (e.g., via Spark) to ensure BPO partner insights on policy and tooling are systematically collected, analyzed, and addressed in partnership with our Partner Operations team.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
- 3+ years of experience in operations, program management, process excellence, or a similar strategic role within a technical or product-focused environment.
- Proven ability to manage complex, cross-functional projects from inception to completion.
- Strong analytical skills with experience using data to drive strategic decisions.
- Exceptional communication and documentation skills, with the ability to articulate complex operational plans to diverse audiences.
Preferred Qualifications
- Direct experience in Trust & Safety operations.
- Significant experience working with and managing BPO/vendor relationships and performance.
- Experience in a "launch," "go-to-market," or "enablement" function responsible for rolling out new processes or products.
- Familiarity with process optimization methodologies (e.g., Six Sigma, Lean).
- Experience with data analysis and visualization tools (e.g., SQL, Tableau).
Trust & Safety
Content that this role interacts with includes images, video, and text related to everyday life, but it can also include (but is not limited to) bullying; hate speech; child safety; depictions of harm to self and others, and harm to animals. Hence, it is possible that this role will be exposed to harmful content on a daily basis.
TikTok recognizes that keeping our platform safe for the 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.
About USDS
TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is dedicated to the safety and security of millions of Americans who create, discover, and connect with what they love on the apps we operate. The Joint Venture has been established in compliance with the Executive Order signed by President Trump on September 25, 2025. Our foundation is a comprehensive data privacy and cybersecurity program we operate under defined safeguards to protect national security and secure U.S. user data, apps and the algorithm. We safeguard the U.S. content ecosystem, holding decision-making authority for trust and safety policies and moderation. USDS Joint Venture helps ensure Americans can continue to express their creativity, discover new hobbies and interests, and build thriving communities and businesses on a global scale.
On-site presence across teams allows the company to operate with greater speed, alignment, and agility — especially in areas like real-time decision-making, team development, and integrated execution. As such, the company is shifting from a hybrid work model to a fully in-person schedule up to 5 days a week.
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.
USDS Reasonable Accommodation
USDS 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://tinyurl.com/USDS-RA
Job Information
【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $96000 - $168889 annually. Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.
Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).
The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:
1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
3. Exercising sound judgment.
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Frame your credentials for specialty occupation
U.S. consular officers assess whether your role requires a specific degree, not just any bachelor's. Document how your engineering, business, or operations management degree directly underpins your Director-level methodology, such as Lean Six Sigma deployment or enterprise-wide process architecture.
Target employers with active LCA filing history
Search the DOL's Office of Foreign Labor Certification disclosure data for companies that have filed LCAs under SOC codes for industrial engineers or general operations managers. Prior LCA activity signals an employer already understands the E-3 visa process, reducing friction at the offer stage.
Address dual intent during your interview preparation
The E-3 is a nonimmigrant visa, so consular officers expect you to demonstrate intent to return to Australia after your authorized stay. Prepare a clear narrative about your ties and long-term plans, distinct from your case for the role itself.
Get your LCA certified before accepting a start date
Your employer must file and receive a certified LCA from the DOL before you can apply at the consulate. LCA certification typically takes seven business days, but DOL processing can run longer during peak periods. Build this into your negotiated start date so you're not starting the clock too early.
Use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service for the full process
Director-level roles often involve complex job duty descriptions that must satisfy specialty occupation criteria. Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service manages your LCA drafting, supporting documentation, and consulate preparation so the paperwork accurately reflects the technical scope of an operational excellence leadership role.
Negotiate employer-paid government fees at the offer stage
The E-3 process involves DOL and State Department government fees that employers can legally cover. Raise fee allocation during offer negotiation rather than after signing, when leverage is lower. Many U.S. employers in manufacturing, healthcare, and financial services routinely cover these costs for Director-level hires.
E-3 Visa Director Operational Excellence: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I find Director Operational Excellence jobs with E-3 sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for Australian professionals searching for U.S. roles with E-3 visa sponsorship. You can filter by job title and see which employers have a history of sponsoring Australian workers. General job boards don't surface sponsorship-specific information, so searching through a platform designed for E-3 candidates saves significant time when targeting Director-level operational excellence positions.
How much does it cost to get an E-3 visa?
Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service covers the entire process for $499, including the Labor Condition Application, visa document preparation, and consulate appointment guidance. Traditional immigration lawyers charge $2,000–$5,000+ for the same work. The E-3 has less paperwork than most work visas, so paying thousands for legal help is usually unnecessary.
Does a Director Operational Excellence role qualify as a specialty occupation for the E-3?
Yes, provided the role requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a specific field such as industrial engineering, operations management, or business administration. The key is that the degree must be a normal requirement for the position, not a preference. Roles that apply Lean, Six Sigma, or systems-level process design to complex organizational problems consistently meet this threshold because the work requires specialized theoretical and applied knowledge.
How does the E-3 compare to the H-1B for a Director Operational Excellence role?
The E-3 has no annual cap and no lottery, so your employer can file at any time of year and approval is not subject to random selection. The H-1B visa caps at 85,000 new slots per year and requires registration in a lottery held each April. For a Director-level hire where timing and certainty matter, the E-3 is a more predictable path. The core specialty occupation standard is similar across both visas, so a role qualifying for one would typically qualify for the other.
Can I change employers while on an E-3 in an operational excellence role?
Yes, but your E-3 status is tied to a specific employer and role. Your new employer must file a fresh LCA with the DOL and you'll need to either apply for a new E-3 visa at an Australian consulate or pursue a change of status if you're already in the U.S. There's no portability provision like H-1B's AC21 rule, so plan the transition carefully and confirm your new offer is in place before resigning.