Senior Product Operation Manager (Video Recommendation and Safety) - TikTok Safety Product

TikTok

Location
San Jose, United States of America
Salary range
USD $108,000 – $208,800 base
Workplace
In office
Level
Manager
Job family
T&S Operations
Posted
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The T&S Network estimates this role to be M4, Senior Manager. The typical base salary for that level in Scaled Ops & Moderation is $190k to $270k 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.

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Why this level

Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: the title reads as M4 · posts $108k to $209k 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.

Product operations work inside a content safety team that uses large language models to speed review and manage risk, with a focus on the recommendation phase, such as feed distribution. The role sits in TikTok's Safety Product group, which aims to keep safety systems scaling with global growth while protecting creator experience.

What you'd do

  • Define the safety operations roadmap and set success metrics such as risk recall, precision, and false positive rate.
  • Design, implement, and tune risk governance strategies for feed distribution and other recommendation-stage interventions.
  • Weigh safety actions against creator experience so fewer legitimate posts get wrongly limited in distribution.
  • Analyze operational data to spot emerging risks in the recommendation ecosystem and monitor operational health.
  • Dig into creator appeal cases to find false positives and iterate on distribution rules and policies.
  • Work with recommendation algorithm, product, and policy teams to operationalize new safety initiatives and manage escalations.

What it asks for

  • Bachelor's degree or above.
  • Grounding in T&S operations, content governance, or risk management within recommendation systems.
  • Hands-on work reviewing wrongly flagged creator content, appeals, or the health of the creator ecosystem.
  • Track record of designing evidence-based process improvements for efficiency, quality, and creator experience.
  • Strong project management, stakeholder management, and cross-functional influence skills.
  • Background running operational metrics and risk control programs (preferred).
  • Data analysis skills such as SQL, Excel, and data visualization (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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