Head of Youth Safety & Well-being Policy - Trust and Safety

Responsibilities:
- Own the global policy strategy for Youth Safety & Well-being - including CSAM, age-inappropriate content, and psychological and developmental harm.
- Support the development of policy positions with the highest nexus to youth harms, ensuring TikTok's standards are clear, enforceable, and consistent with international child protection frameworks and legal obligations.
- Support on youth-specific approaches to feature and product policy - including account defaults, recommendations, parental controls, and interaction features - ensuring product design reinforces safety policy intent.
- Represent TikTok as a senior public-facing voice on youth safety policy - speaking at industry conferences, with media, and participating in external forums with child protection organizations, academic researchers, and civil society groups.
- Partner with Policy Enforcement, Operations, and Product to develop and improve human and AI-driven moderation systems.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualification(s):
- 5+ years of experience in Trust & Safety, Child Protection Policy, Public Policy, Law, Prevention Science, Social Work, or a related field with a meaningful focus on child or adolescent safety.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and manage teams, set strategic direction, and deliver high-quality outputs in a fast-paced, global environment.
- Deep understanding of the harm landscape affecting youth online, including CSAM, harmful content, and the developmental risks specific to this age-group.
- Familiarity with international child protection laws, child rights frameworks (e.g. UNCRC), and mandatory reporting obligations to bodies such as NCMEC.
- Exceptional ability to synthesize complex child safety topics for senior executives, external stakeholders, and broad audiences.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, with experience working alongside product, technical, legal, and operational teams.
- High technical aptitude and ability to navigate complex tools, systems, and emerging technologies as they apply to child safety detection and enforcement.

Preferred Qualification(s):
- Experience engaging with external stakeholders, including policymakers, regulators, academics, or civil society organizations.

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $159000 - $384000 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.

Client-provided location(s): New York, NY

Job ID: TikTok-7631711297880525109

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2026-06-03T20:12:25