Policy Manager, Youth Safety & Well-being - Trust and Safety
- Locations
- San Francisco, United States of America · New York, United States of America
- Salary range
- USD $121,600 – $272,000 base
- Workplace
- In office
- Level
- Manager
- Job family
- Policy & Standards
- Posted
- Recently
The T&S Network estimates this role to be M3, Manager. The typical base salary for that level in Content Policy & Governance is $150k to $230k at an employer this size in the San Francisco Bay Area or New York. Key skills at this level: owns a policy area end to end, from drafting through enforcement guidance, runs consultation with legal, product and operations without losing the policy intent, and designs enforcement ladders proportionate to harm and to error cost.
Why this level
Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: the title reads as M3 · asks for 5+ years · posts $122k to $272k base at a company over 5,000 in the San Francisco Bay Area or New York.
The role, in T&S terms
Written by the T&S Network from TikTok's posting.
Policy work on youth safety and well-being across TikTok's apps, covering the harms young users face online, including CSAM and harmful content, and balancing protection against youth autonomy and expression. The Youth Safety & Well-being Policy team writes the policies that protect and support young people, from prohibiting exploitation to shaping product experiences for minors.
What you'd do
- Develop, iterate, and maintain policies that keep content age-appropriate while weighing harm prevention against youth expression.
- Draft youth harm rules that can be enforced and that fit international child protection law and legal duties.
- Bring outside expertise from external stakeholders into TikTok's youth safety and well-being platform policies.
- Work with Policy Enforcement, Operations, and Product to build and improve human and AI-driven moderation systems.
What it asks for
- Deep understanding of online youth harms, including CSAM, harmful content, and age-specific developmental risks.
- Working knowledge of current and coming youth online rules, such as age-appropriate design codes and youth online safety regimes.
- Ability to synthesize complex child safety topics for internal and external audiences, including trade-offs and implications.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration with product, technical, legal, and operations teams.
- Technical aptitude with tools and systems used for child safety detection and enforcement.
Terms in this role
- CSAM.
- Child sexual abuse material: images or video of the sexual abuse of children. Illegal to make, share or possess in nearly every country.
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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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