Product Manager - AI-Driven Video Safety, Trust & Safety, Seattle

Our Trust & Safety team's commitment is to keep our online community safe. We have invested heavily in human and machine-based moderation to remove harmful content quickly and often before it reaches our general community.

As a product manager for video safety, you will have the thrilling opportunity to lead the exploration and integration of cutting-edge Large Language Models (LLMs) into our video platform to enhance risk identification and automated content moderation. In this role, you will drive the development of innovative AI-driven tools that preemptively identify and mitigate risks, ensuring a safe viewing environment. You will collaborate closely with LLM model research teams to tailor LLM technologies for detecting nuanced and emerging types of harmful content, continuously refining our moderation algorithms. This position offers the chance to be at the forefront of AI in social media, directly shaping the future of digital content safety and user experience. Your work will not only push technological boundaries but also make a significant impact on maintaining the integrity and security of our platform. You will also work to deliver major Trust and Safety product changes. Travel between our global offices is expected.

Responsibilities
- Drive complex projects independently, define the safety product roadmap, set success metrics that inform the success of safety efforts, and partner across the organization to develop action plans
- Focus on building effective and scalable features and auto-moderation strategy to provide users with a safe experience.
- Work closely with issue experts, and policy team, as well as cross-functional partners, to establish a workflow to critically analyze, prioritize, and drive cross-functional efforts to achieve success.
- Develop a robust workflow for cross-team collaboration, manage large-scale product improvement projects to improve community safety.
- Leverage LLM to identify potential risks and perform content moderation automatically.

Qualifications

- 5+ years of experience in product management in Consumer-Facing mobile or web Internet companies, be familiar with models and algorithms.
- Ability to design product solutions based on evidence; proven track record of delivering value-adding products, and/or organizational or process changes that benefit the business.
- Good project management and communication skills, able to influence and unite cross-functional teams.
- Identify, analyze and improve existing business/product processes to optimize performance, meet best practice standards or improve quality and user experience.
- Strong and proven data analysis skills for product design and knowledge of methods for researching and analyzing product designs to determine their potential for meeting organizational standards and business needs.

Preferred Qualifications
- Experience of working with international partners across different time zones and cultures
- Experience in Trust & Safety; Basic knowledge of safety by design principles
- Understanding of the landscape and new policy developments in the tech industry and online safety
- Prior experience managing products with safety-related success metrics highly desirable
- Prior experience managing products related to human and/or machine-based moderation to remove harmful content highly desirable

Trust & Safety recognizes that keeping our platform safe for TikTok communities is no ordinary job which can be both rewarding and psychologically demanding and emotionally taxing for some. This is why we are sharing the potential hazards, risks and implications in this unique line of work from the start, so our candidates are well informed before joining.
We are committed to the wellbeing of all our employees and promise to provide comprehensive and evidence-based programs, to promote and support physical and mental wellbeing throughout each employee's journey with us. We believe that wellbeing is a relationship and that everyone has a part to play, so we work in collaboration and consultation with our employees and across our functions in order to ensure a truly person-centered, innovative and integrated approach.

TikTok 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 TikTok, 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.

TikTok 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 https://shorturl.at/cdpT2

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $141588 - $296020 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.

Our company benefits are designed to convey company culture and values, to create an efficient and inspiring work environment, and to support our employees to give their best in both work and life. We offer the following benefits to eligible employees:

We cover 100% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, approximately 75% premium coverage for dependents and offer a Health Savings Account(HSA) with a company match. As well as Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life and AD&D insurance plans. In addition to Flexible Spending Account(FSA) Options like Health Care, Limited Purpose and Dependent Care.

Our time off and leave plans are: 10 paid holidays per year plus 17 days of Paid Personal Time Off (PPTO) (prorated upon hire and increased by tenure) and 10 paid sick days per year as well as 12 weeks of paid Parental leave and 8 weeks of paid Supplemental Disability.

We also provide generous benefits like mental and emotional health benefits through our EAP and Lyra. A 401K company match, gym and cellphone service reimbursements. The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.