Platform Product Lead - Trust and Safety

- Lead and mentor product managers while influencing cross-functional teams in a fast-moving, high-stakes environment.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
- 5 years of product management experience, including significant experience leading complex platform or infrastructure products from strategy through execution.
- Proven experience in Trust & Safety, Risk, Integrity, Security, Compliance, Abuse Prevention, or other high-risk platform governance domains.
- Demonstrated ability to lead ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives involving multiple stakeholders, operational dependencies, and technical systems.
- Strong systems-thinking capability, with experience designing end-to-end solutions that integrate automation, machine learning, operational workflows, decision systems, and human review processes.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to structure complex risk problems into scalable product strategies, operational frameworks, and measurable business outcomes.
- Strong stakeholder management with proven ability to influence technical and non-technical partners across global organizations.
- Experience operating in fast-paced, high-severity environments involving escalations, crisis response, regulatory, or real-world harm scenarios.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience building large-scale risk intelligence platforms, moderation systems, enforcement tooling, investigation platforms, or operational workflow systems.
- Hands-on experience shipping LLM-powered or AI-agent products in production environments, including familiarity with prompt design, evaluation methodologies, retrieval systems, and human oversight models.
- Deep understanding of global online safety and regulatory landscapes, including areas such as illegal harms, youth safety, misinformation, violent extremism, platform manipulation, and compliance requirements (e.g., DSA, OSA).
- Experience working closely with global Trust & Safety operations teams and designing products for 24/7 operational environments.
- Background in machine learning, data science, AI systems, or automation-driven platform development.
- Experience managing or mentoring product managers and driving organizational product strategy.

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $228000 - $492800 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): San Jose, CA

Job ID: TikTok-7639800108162910517

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2026-05-16T21:01:42