Platform Operations Team Lead - TikTok Safety Product (San Jose)
- Location
- San Jose, United States of America
- Salary range
- USD $115,200 – $180,000 base
- Workplace
- In office
- Level
- Frontline team lead
- Job family
- T&S Operations
- Posted
- Recently
The T&S Network estimates this role to be M1, Supervisor / Team Lead. The typical base salary for that level in Scaled Ops & Moderation is $96k to $130k at an employer this size in the San Francisco Bay Area. Key skills at this level: reads queue health from the metrics and knows which ones lie, balances accuracy, throughput and wellbeing as one problem, and runs a shift against demand that spikes without warning.
Why this level
Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: the posting states the level in its title · asks for 5+ years · posts $115k to $180k base at a company over 5,000 in the San Francisco Bay Area · the title reads as M1.
The role, in T&S terms
Written by the T&S Network from TikTok's posting.
Leads a local ticket support operations team inside TikTok's content safety function, which uses large language models to speed up content review and manage risk. The team works with engineering and product on user support journeys and on the operational side of content safety systems.
What you'd do
- Investigate reported tickets and incidents across multiple channels and coordinate responses to global partner inquiries
- Find bottlenecks in daily operations, ticket data, audit data and team feedback, then design data-driven fixes
- Set user operations strategy and improve the process for turning user feedback into solved problems
- Hire, coach and upskill team members, and plan manpower and task allocation for productivity
- Act as main point of contact for the domain, escalating technical issues to engineering and product teams
- Represent regional operational needs in global planning and reviews, and localize strategies for regional readiness
What it asks for
- More than 5 years in the Internet industry with 3+ years managing platform operations or product technical support teams
- Working knowledge of content moderation and Trust & Safety operations, including handling incidents and managing risk
- Solid grasp of how ticket support systems run and which operational metrics matter
- Experience managing escalations of technical issues
- Proven ability to run products, service processes and projects end to end
- Strong data analysis and reporting skills, with sensitivity to system performance and stability indicators
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About TikTok

The employer
About TikTok
Social platforms · Media and streaming · Culver City, CA · 50,001 to 100,000 people · Founded 2016
Short-form video platform, run by ByteDance outside the US and by a joint venture of Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX inside it since 2026.
Moderation, reported
TikTok filed 37.7M moderation decisions with the European Commission for May 2026.
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