Senior Product Manager (Video Recommendation and Safety) - TikTok Safety Product (San Jose)
- Location
- San Jose, United States of America
- Salary range
- USD $151,200 – $295,200 base
- Workplace
- In office
- Level
- Senior / Staff IC
- Job family
- Product
- Posted
- Recently
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.
Why this level
Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: the title reads as P3 · posts $151k to $295k base at a company over 5,000 in the San Francisco Bay Area · sets strategy beyond one team.
The role, in T&S terms
Written by the T&S Network from TikTok's posting.
Product management for content safety systems that use large language models to speed up review, control risk and build user trust. The Safety Product team sits in Platform Responsibility and works on recommendation and moderation strategy to keep users safe as the platform scales globally.
What you'd do
- Own the safety product roadmap and drive complex projects independently.
- Define success metrics that show whether safety efforts are working.
- Build scalable recommendation and moderation strategies for a safe user experience.
- Apply data analysis, machine learning and NLP to find risky content such as violence, pornography and fraud.
- Produce strategies to address risky content identified through analysis.
- Set up cross-functional workflows that prioritize and drive safety work with policy and issue experts.
What it asks for
- Bachelor's degree.
- Familiarity with recommendation strategy and models and algorithms.
- Can design product solutions grounded in evidence, with a record of shipping products or process changes that help the business.
- Good project management and communication skills to influence and unite cross-functional teams.
- Product management experience in content safety or content governance would help (preferred).
- Strong data analysis skills for product design (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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