Product Policy Manager, LIVE - Trust and Safety
TikTok
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Job summary
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in policy, trust & safety, or related fields.
- Familiarity with global policy issues like misinformation or youth safety.
- Experience preparing materials for executive audiences.
Responsibilities
- Embed monetization context into LIVE policies.
- Drive alignment between policy and governance teams.
- Provide expert guidance during high-risk escalations.
Skills
Education
Job description
As a product policy manager on the Trust & Safety team, you will work with product managers, data scientists, user researchers, operations, legal, and other stakeholders to craft policies for product features and deliver major safety product changes. This role focuses on the LIVE content ecosystem, with an emphasis on incentive-based policies to positively shape user behavior, and on monetized livestream content.
- Embed monetization context into LIVE policies to address the unique risks of incentivized and financially driven content.
- Identify and close policy gaps related to gift solicitation, reception, and other monetization features.
- Drive cross-functional alignment between Trust & Safety Policy and LIVE governance teams to ensure policies are defensible, principled, and consistently applied.
- Assess and respond to emerging policy and enforcement needs through structured reviews and actionable recommendations of monetized content.
- Strengthen governance of agency partners through enhanced controls, oversight, and policy enablement.
- Provide expert guidance and support during high-risk escalations of monetized content.
- Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience in policy, trust & safety, risk, or related fields.
- Experience working with global, cross-functional teams in fast-paced, high-growth environments.
- Proven ability to analyze complex issues, write policy, and translate them into operational guidance.
- Experience preparing materials for executive audiences and/or external stakeholders.
- Preferred Qualifications: Experience working on or with LIVE streaming products or content moderation systems.
- Deep understanding of global policy issues such as misinformation, election integrity, youth safety, or regulated goods.
- Experience in policy implementation or enforcement at a technology platform.
- Strong project management skills and comfort navigating ambiguity in rapidly evolving policy areas.
TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, with offices around the world.
Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our product helps people authentically express themselves, discover, and connect. Our diverse, global teams make that possible. We aim to foster curiosity, humility, and impact—together we strive for meaningful breakthroughs for our users, our company, and ourselves. Join us.
TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people globally and our workplace reflects the communities we reach. We celebrate diverse voices and strive to create an environment that reflects them.
TikTok recognises that keeping our platform safe for communities is a demanding job. We share the potential hazards, risks, and implications upfront so candidates are well informed before joining. We are committed to the wellbeing of all employees and provide comprehensive programs to promote physical and mental wellbeing. We collaborate across functions to ensure a person-centred, innovative, and integrated approach to wellbeing.
TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs, or other protected reasons. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at tinyurl.com/RA-request
Compensation: The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $96,000 - $217,023 annually. Compensation may vary outside this range based on qualifications, skills, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package and may include discretionary bonuses/incentives and restricted stock units.
Benefits may vary by employment type and country. Employees have day-one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) with company match, paid parental leave, disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, and more. 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 tenure).
The company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
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 and the California Fair Chance Act. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in withdrawal of the conditional offer:
- Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
- Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems;
- Exercising sound judgment.
- Not Applicable
- Full-time
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- Technology, Information and Internet
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