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Senior Product Manager, Content Classification - Trust & Safety - San Jose

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TikTok

Senior Product Manager, Content Classification - Trust & Safety - San Jose

San Jose, CA

Responsibilities

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 its offices include New York, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us
Creation is the core of TikTok's purpose. Our platform is built to help imagination thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make TikTok possible. Together, we inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we all believe in and aim towards achieving every day. To us, every challenge, no matter how difficult, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always. At TikTok, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact for ourselves, our company, and the communities we serve. Join us.

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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.

It is possible that this role will be exposed to harmful content as part of the core role/as part of project/ in response to escalation requests/by chance. It can also include (but is not limited to) bullying; hate speech; child safety; depictions of harm to self and others, and harm to animals.

As a product manager on our Trust & Safety team, you will collaborate cross-functionally with engineers, data scientists, operations, product policies, and various relevant internal teams to build safety product features and strategies to comply with the latest global data regulation. We are looking for a Product Manager to design, develop and drive products to launch for Content Classification. With Content Classification, we look to build an end-to-end age appropriate experience for users on TikTok. You will have opportunities to drive product solutions for system design, modeling, and interactive design.

Responsibilities
- Drive product strategy and build features and tools to support response to legal, law enforcement, regulation, compliance, and privacy-related inquiries and requests;
- Define product roadmap, set metrics that inform the success of safety efforts, and work with the engineering team to implement product solutions;
- Develop a robust workflow for cross-team collaboration, and manage large-scale product improvement projects to improve community safety.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience in building social networking or video content applications, or other consumer internet applications, or content detection or classification models;
- Ability to design product solutions based on data; proven track record of pushing ambitious products from system design to interactive design;
- Robust product management and people skills; ability to influence and unite cross-functional teams;
- Experience of working with cross-functional partners across different time zones, cultures, and languages;
- Data-sensitive, capable of in-depth data interpretation.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Familiar with VSP (video sharing platform) regulations and able to collaborate with not only Engineering, UX, Data, Algorithm teams but also PR, GR, Legal, and Policy teams;
- Ability to work in a high tempo environment resiliently, adapt, respond to day-to-day challenges of the role;
- Knowledgeable in global content moderation data regulations such as digital service act, etc

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-centred, 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

Client-provided location(s): San Jose, CA, USA
Job ID: TikTok-7468075498552330503
Employment Type: Other

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • Health Insurance
    • Dental Insurance
    • Vision Insurance
    • HSA
    • Life Insurance
    • Fitness Subsidies
    • Short-Term Disability
    • Long-Term Disability
    • On-Site Gym
    • Mental Health Benefits
    • Virtual Fitness Classes
  • Parental Benefits

    • Fertility Benefits
    • Adoption Assistance Program
    • Family Support Resources
  • Work Flexibility

    • Flexible Work Hours
    • Hybrid Work Opportunities
  • Office Life and Perks

    • Casual Dress
    • Snacks
    • Pet-friendly Office
    • Happy Hours
    • Some Meals Provided
    • Company Outings
    • On-Site Cafeteria
    • Holiday Events
  • Vacation and Time Off

    • Paid Vacation
    • Paid Holidays
    • Personal/Sick Days
    • Leave of Absence
  • Financial and Retirement

    • 401(K) With Company Matching
    • Performance Bonus
    • Company Equity
  • Professional Development

    • Promote From Within
    • Access to Online Courses
    • Leadership Training Program
    • Associate or Rotational Training Program
    • Mentor Program
  • Diversity and Inclusion

    • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program
    • Employee Resource Groups (ERG)

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