Regional High Harm Policy Manager - Philippines and Indonesia - Trust and Safety

TIKTOK PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company is seeking a policy development specialist for its Trust & Safety team in Singapore. This role will involve drafting and updating policy documentation for Southeast Asian markets, especially for the Philippines and Indonesia, and formulating strategies for high-harm areas. The ideal candidate should have a strong understanding of regional socio-cultural norms, excellent communication skills, and proficiency in Tagalog or Bahasa Indonesia. Join us to help ensure a safe digital environment for users.

Qualifications

• Experience in policy development and public policy.
• Proficient in Tagalog or Bahasa Indonesia for accurate assessments.
• Strong understanding of the Philippines and Indonesia market.

Responsibilities

• Draft, analyse, and update policy documentation for Southeast Asian markets.
• Formulate policy enforcement strategies for high-harm areas.
• Work with cross-functional teams to evolve content policies.

Skills

Experience in policy development

Proficiency in Tagalog or Bahasa Indonesia

Excellent oral and written communication skills

Deep understanding of regional socio-cultural norms

Passionate about content safety

Job description

About TikTok

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

Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok'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.

Diversity & Inclusion

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.

Trust & Safety

TikTok recognises that keeping our platform safe for the 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-centred, innovative and integrated approach.

Responsibilities

About the team: 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.

The Trust & Safety Policy team develops and reviews our community policies to promote a positive and safe environment for all of our Users and Content Creators to enjoy and express themselves. Specifically, the Regional High Harm Policy team is made up of expert policy ambassadors that drive a safe and joyful creator experience across policy, product development, and risk mitigation. We ensure that our Community Guidelines and policy principles are effectuated in all of the communities they serve. We are doubling down in our investment to minimize our highest harm areas that require local context and expertise across all features. Our goal is to ensure Bytedance products are safe and welcoming for a diversity of people, communities, and ideas. The team is working on investing in policy interventions that can efficiently address our highest severity harms across all feature sets. We are responsible for developing specialized policy enforcement strategies to enhance our ability to efficiently and accurately detect and remove high-harm content.

What will I be doing?

• Draft, analyse and update policy documentation for Southeast Asian markets, which includes Philippines and/or Indonesia, by leveraging local insights which are in line with our global approach to Trust and Safety;
• Formulate policy enforcement strategies for high-harm areas such as Hate, Violent Behaviors and Dangerous Actors, Mental Health, Integrity and Authenticity and Human Exploitation, specific to the Southeast Asian markets under your charge;
• Oversee the creation and maintenance of policy guidance and occasional training documents for the Philippines and/or Indonesia market and for high-harm policy areas, for moderators and other internal Trust and Safety teams;
• Act as the policy point of contact for Philippines and/or Indonesia, in coordination with regional and global stakeholders, and respond to content related issues that might arise; Manage cross functional relationships with senior regional stakeholders. Collaborate with Policy, Product, Operations, Legal, Public Policy and Public Relations teams to build consensus on, and evolve, content policies where necessary;
• Work closely with cross-functional partners and external experts to stay up-to-date on emerging social media trends in Philippines and/or Indonesia, to predict and prevent content violations of TikTok's Community Guidelines.

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience in policy development, policy enforcement, public policy or escalations management. Direct experience in the technology sector is a plus.
• Deep understanding of the Philippines and Indonesia market, including regional socio-cultural norms and public discourse on content safety considerations;
• Proficiency in Tagalog or Bahasa Indonesia is required to support users and stakeholders in the Philippines and Indonesia, and to ensure accurate policy assessment that reflects regional context, language, and cultural nuances.
• Passionate about exploring how evolving technology, media dynamics, and cultural trends impact content safety and digital well-being.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills and an ability to communicate complex ideas to multiple stakeholders;
• An ability to formulate accurate and balanced policy assessments that are principled and defensible, in a dynamic environment or ambiguous situations;

Preferred Qualifications

• An ability to work in a high tempo environment, adapt and respond to day-to-day challenges of the role;
• An ability to prioritise, balance and thoughtfully execute the core responsibilities of the role along with critical policy related projects; and
• We are looking for a motivated, collaborative and adaptive individual with a can do attitude that can work well as a team and take on the demands of the role.