Product Operations Manager (LLM) - TikTok Minor Safety (San Jose)
- Location
- San Jose, United States of America
- Salary range
- USD $121,600 – $272,000 base
- Workplace
- In office
- Level
- Manager
- Job family
- T&S Operations
- Posted
- Recently
The T&S Network estimates this role to be M3, Manager. The typical base salary for that level in Scaled Ops & Moderation is $150k to $220k at an employer this size in the San Francisco Bay Area. Key skills at this level: forecasts volume and staffs against it with real error bars, owns service levels and can explain a miss without blaming the queue, and governs a vendor relationship on quality, not only on cost per action.
Why this level
Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: the title reads as M3 · posts $122k to $272k base at a company over 5,000 in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The role, in T&S terms
Written by the T&S Network from TikTok's posting.
Product operations for AI model safety on TikTok's minor safety team, which builds LLM and multimodal systems to protect minors and teens at global scale. The team sits between product, policy and AI, turning regulatory and safety requirements into proactive, measurable product solutions.
What you'd do
- Own model strategy and operations for minor safety, working end to end from model design through training and evaluation.
- Define dataset standards, execute model evaluations and ensure high-quality data delivery across the data production lifecycle.
- Adopt LLM tools to optimize data production workflows and improve their efficiency and scalability.
- Research training methods from academia and industry and find weaknesses in existing training data.
What it asks for
- Relevant work experience.
- Working grasp of machine learning basics, covering LLMs and Transformer designs.
- Strong project management and operational skills across end-to-end workflows.
- Ability to work with both technical and non-technical stakeholders in cross-functional teams.
- Experience in Trust & Safety, content moderation or content safety compliance (preferred).
- Practical data analysis or model tuning work (preferred).
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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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