Nick Jenkins

About Nick Jenkins

I combine a strategic consulting mindset with advanced data science expertise, delivering…

Experience

1. Lead Data Scientist

   TikTok

   May 2022 — Present · New York, NY, US

   My career hit new heights by joining a massive, fast-growing tech company, where I could focus my efforts on long-term, high-impact data science initiatives. I built robust data pipelines and frameworks that combine large-scale engineering, rigorous quality standards, and advanced ML to address real-time regulatory challenges. My dedication to stakeholder alignment, mentorship, and cross-regional collaboration has elevated TikTok’s transparency function to being an industry leader. By implementing generative AI workflows and a best-in-class reporting platform, I transformed the speed and accuracy of critical data insights throughout the organization. This experience sharpened my technical leadership skills, bridging emerging technologies with mission-critical business goals, and was recognized with promotion to Lead Data Scientist in early 2025- Aggregated Metric Database (AMD): Introduced a single source of truth for regulatory data, scaling external disclosures from ~25 to 130 annually and cutting ad-hoc reporting requirements by 44%, recognized with two spot bonuses and further business investment- SOPs & Data Quality: Defined team mission, vision, and north star metrics. Our quality processes earnt industry-leading results from KPMG DSA audit- Data Disclosure Platform: Centralized disclosure practices across entire business, reduced request handling time from 182 hours to 15 hours- Mentorship & Code Review Culture: Established code quality and review processes towards 83% coverage, onboarded four new data scientists across multiple regions- LLM Analytics Product: Deployed advanced generative AI analytics to enable 81% accurate misinformation detection, topics and trends during the US election

Skills

• Customer Insight
• Survey Design
• Software Development
• Python
• Online Research
• Data Analysis
• Segmentation
• Market Research
• Questionnaires
• Qualitative Research
• Forecasting
• Quantitative Research
• Marketing Research
• Spss
• Analysis
• Focus Groups
• Questionnaire Design
• Competitive Intelligence
• Consumer Behaviour
• Microsoft Excel
• Predictive Modeling