Senior Product Manager; Content Moderation​/Inspection - Safety Product; San Jose

Responsibilities

About the Team:
The Safety Product (or Platform Responsibility) team is at the forefront of building and optimizing content safety systems. With a focus on optimising and advancing content safety, we leverage advanced large language models to enhance review efficiency, risk control, and user trust. Working closely with business and technical stakeholders, we deliver scalable solutions that keep pace with rapid global growth.

The Inspection team primarily focuses on preventing large-scale content risks on the platform caused by gaps in systematic moderation capabilities, including trends and escalations, as well as ensuring timely responses to such incidents. Additionally, the team owns end-to-end oversight of Violent Behavior and Dangerous Actors and Mental Health issues, which are common sources of escalations on the platform.

This role is focused on defining and improving the information environment on Tik Tok. You will work as a product manager to reduce the prevalence of problematic content and ensure a positive end user experience across your areas including misinformation, hate speech, extremism, AIGC safety, civic integrity.

• Define and drive metrics that reflect end user goals;
• Own ideation, prioritization and execution for your area of Tik Tok Integrity & Authenticity, driving feature sets end-to-end, including design, build, test, launch, and post-launch;
• Lead cross-functional project teams, building synergy and influence across multiple departments, globally;
• Identify critical problems and opportunities in content safety domains, leveraging AI-driven detection models and ML-powered content moderation to develop dedicated product solutions.
• Participate in trend response and apply various content strategies. Build infrastructure and capabilities within the Inspection team to enhance our system-level abilities for exploring and managing trends more effectively.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• 3+ years of experience as a Product Manager (or possessing the will to rapidly build this experience through your dedication)
• Strong sense of logic and excellent critical thinking skills
• Evidence-based, analytical, data-informed. (You like to use data to help identify problems, find opportunities, and drive continuous product improvement.)
• Can clearly describe your vision, planning and executional challenges and lead coordination with other teams to co-solve problems in depth
• Can quickly learn and master fundamental trend governance methods

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven working knowledge of Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning
• Proven working knowledge in Trust & Safety
• Passion about social media platforms, and proven record of a creative mindset

Tik Tok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At Tik Tok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. Tik Tok'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.

Inspiring creativity is at the core of Tik Tok'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.

Tik Tok 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 Tik Tok, 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.

Tik Tok 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

Compensation:
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $149,040 - $311,600 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…