Senior Product Manager, AI Safety Evaluation & Governance - TikTok Safety Product

TikTok

Location
San Jose, United States of America
Salary range
USD $185,600 – $374,000 base
Workplace
In office
Level
Senior / Staff IC
Job family
AI Safety
Posted
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The T&S Network estimates this role to be P3, Senior. The typical base salary for that level in T&S Product Management is $190k to $270k at an employer this size in the San Francisco Bay Area. Key skills at this level: owns a safety product area and its roadmap against real constraints, prioritizes between harm reduction, user experience and engineering cost, and instruments for the metric that matters rather than the one that is easy.

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Why this level

Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: the title reads as P3 · asks for 5+ years · posts $186k to $374k base at a company over 5,000 in the San Francisco Bay Area · sets strategy beyond one team.

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The role, in T&S terms

Written by the T&S Network from TikTok's posting.

Defines and runs the evaluation system that decides whether AI models are good enough to make content safety decisions across the platform. The work covers standards, model design and statistically grounded quality measurement for safety models, sitting within the Feed Safety-Model and Data Intelligence team in TikTok Platform Responsibility.

What you'd do

  • Define evaluation methodology, launch criteria, regression thresholds and monitoring for AI safety models
  • Build labeling taxonomies and positive-example datasets across languages, formats and adversarial patterns
  • Create severity-tiered benchmarks to set quality gates and calibrate decision thresholds
  • Compute precision, recall, F1 and confidence intervals, and identify model failure patterns
  • Write and tune prompts for LLM-as-judge and LLM-assisted labeling pipelines
  • Coordinate labeling teams and translate findings into roadmaps with algorithm, policy and data science teams
  • Build reusable evaluation tooling and mentor junior team members

What it asks for

  • Degree at bachelor's level or higher in a quantitative field such as statistics, computing or data science
  • 5+ years in AI/ML evaluation, model QA, trust and safety product, or data-driven product management
  • Strong SQL for statistical analysis and data pipeline work
  • Proven professional experience with LLMs, including prompt engineering and LLM-based evaluation
  • Deep understanding of content safety or trust and safety policy, severity classification and enforcement trade-offs
  • Fluent written and spoken Chinese for managing China market stakeholders
  • Has built evaluation frameworks for large content moderation or safety AI systems (preferred)

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About TikTok

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About TikTok

Social platforms · Media and streaming · Culver City, CA · 50,001 to 100,000 people · Founded 2016

Company profile

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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