Program Manager (Japanese Speaking), Trust & Safety
- Location
- Tokyo, Japan
- Salary range
- Not stated
- Workplace
- In office
- Level
- Individual contributor
- Job family
- T&S Operations
- Posted
- Recently
The T&S Network estimates this role to be P2, Professional. We don't yet know typical pay for this level in Japan. Most of our pay data comes from US roles. If you work in Trust & Safety in Japan, add your pay to help others. 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 title reads as P2 · asks for 3+ years.
The role, in T&S terms
Written by the T&S Network from TikTok's posting.
Market risk management for TikTok's Japan market and wider APAC, sitting in a team that finds risks between global safety frameworks and regional political, regulatory and cultural realities. The team builds tailored Trust & Safety strategies per market, using market-level data and cross-functional input, to keep global safety approaches effective locally.
What you'd do
- Write internal reports on how the public views risks and which risks have surfaced, to guide mitigation
- Identify trends across lines of business and develop cross-functional solutions to emerging risks
- Design risk prevention processes and strategy for Japan focused on youth safety, hate, and cyberbullying
- Partner with policy, product, data analytics, operations, and communications to resolve safety gaps in features
- Analyze qualitative and quantitative signals across Video, Live, comments, follows and likes, and accounts
- Define project scope and drive implementation of feature and policy changes with stakeholders
- Advocate for policy changes and define new operational processes
What it asks for
- Solid grasp of UGC social platforms and the politics, rules and culture across Northeast Asia
- Advanced spoken and written Japanese required
- Working knowledge of T&S problems, daily operations and the hurdles they create
- Program, project or product management experience, ideally in safety, risk control or anti-spam
- Comfort with large data volumes and in-depth analysis using Excel, such as pivot tables and charts
- High-tempo work and ability to adapt to daily challenges
- Familiarity with SQL (preferred)
Worth knowing
- Ongoing emotional demands of the role, with resilience and self-care expected
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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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