Senior Product Manager - AI Data and Safety

ByteDance; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 228,000 - 492,800; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, & vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Parental leave

Disability coverage

Job summary

ByteDance in San Jose seeks a Senior Product Manager for AI Data and Safety to define data requirements for aligning LLMs across markets. You will collaborate with technical teams to shape data collection, quality controls, and bias mitigation.

You will evaluate data production tools, drive cost-efficient data acquisition, and ensure processes scale with growth, while balancing compliance and user well-being.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years of experience as a product manager or product strategist, including process design.
• Solid understanding of alignment methods such as SFT/RLHF or related moderation/data-synthesis work.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with technical teams to define data requirements for aligning LLMs across markets.
• Develop data acquisition and production methodologies, monitoring costs and quality.
• Evaluate impact of data tools on production quality and effectiveness, improving them with teams.
• Mitigate biases and vulnerabilities in data production through technical and operational solutions.

Skills

Alignment & LLM data

RLHF & SFT

Moderation & labeling

Data synthesis

Product management

Job description

Senior Product Manager – AI Data and Safety

Location: San Jose

Team: Product

Employment Type: Regular

Job Code: A72404A

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with technical teams to precisely define the data requirements necessary for aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) across global markets.
• Develop methodologies for data acquisition and production, monitoring costs and assessing the effectiveness and efficiency of these processes. Ensure data quality is maintained at high standards and continually enhance processes based on both quantitative and qualitative feedback.
• Evaluate the impact of data production tools on the effectiveness and quality of data production. Work closely with technical teams to enhance the quality and effectiveness of these tools.
• Proactively identify and mitigate potential biases and vulnerabilities in the data production process, including addressing human and system biases through technical, product, and operational solutions.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Solid understanding of alignment and related approaches, such as Supervised Fine‑Tuning (SFT), Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), and others, or solid experience in moderation, labeling, search quality, or data synthesis.
• Minimum of two years of experience as a product manager or product strategist, including process design experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• A strong interest in both LLMs and human behavior/experience/well‑being.
• Collaborative team player who knows how to assertively advocate for their ideas without being overbearing.
• Skilled at maintaining attention to detail while staying focused on prioritized goals and the bigger picture.

Fair Chance

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.
3. Exercising sound judgment.

Job Information

The base salary range for this position in San Jose is $228,000 – $492,800 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. This role may also be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives and restricted stock units.

Benefits

Employees receive 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, and other benefits. 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.

Reasonable Accommodation

ByteDance 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://tinyurl.com/RA-request.