Senior Product Manager; Search Safety - Safety Product; San Jose
Listed on 2026-02-07
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Software Development
Software Engineer
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.
Role
As the Product manager for Search Safety, you will drive the safety features and strategies for Tik Tok, ensuring our platform is safe for our global community. You will work closely with policy leaders, program managers, engineers, and data scientists around the world to design comprehensive strategies and plans. You will analyze and identify risks, own designing features, work with engineering to build them, test and roll out solutions, then continue to monitor and improve them after they ship, keeping our users safe as new threats and opportunities evolve.
- Your scope includes the safety of all Tik Tok Search Safety related features, including proactive search suggestions, reactive search suggestions, search results, etc.
- You will help define a safety product roadmap, set metrics to measure effectiveness, and drive cross-functional efforts to achieve success.
- You will analyze and identify risks and leverage in-app product solutions or back-end processes to effectively address risk and work with the engineering team to implement product solutions.
Minimum Qualifications
- 3+ years of product management experience in Consumer-Facing mobile or web internet industries
- 3+ years of experience managing Product Managers
- Ability to identify, analyze and design product solutions; a proven track record of pushing ambitious product changes
- Strong cross-functional project management skills, good communication skills; a passion to unite people behind a common goal; ability to work across time zones and locations
Preferred Qualifications
- Relevant experience in Trust and Safety, integrity, minor safety, fraud detection, or other relevant experience
- Experience building social networking or video content applications, or other consumer internet applications
- Ability to work in a high tempo environment, adapt, respond to day-to-day challenges of the role
- Resilience and commitment to self-care to manage the emotional demands of the role
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.
Why Join UsInspiring 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.
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