Product Operations Specialist

Product ops

Product Operations Specialist (Content Safety) - Content Ecosystem (San Jose)

Location

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San Jose

Employment Type

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Regular

Job Code

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A67015

Responsibilities

About the team

TikTok Content Ecosystem team's goal is to ensure that TikTok is safe and welcoming for everyone, including minors. This encourages creators to create good content, and improves user satisfaction in the long run. We also work with the recommendation and personalization team to tailor the feed to everyone's interests, with a goal to make our users happier. This goes towards TikTok's mission of inspiring creativity and bringing joy.

Responsibilities

• Lead short-video ecosystem operations by identifying, analyzing, and responding to risks detected across multiple content channels. Utilize internal detection and mitigation tools to execute timely emergency responses to platform issues.
• Monitor the effectiveness of issue resolutions, evaluate cases of missed detections or leakage, and continuously refine emergency strategies and workflows to improve efficiency.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with business, policy, algorithm, review, and engineering teams to build effective collaboration mechanisms. Stay updated on potential risks and business changes, coordinate across upstream and downstream teams, and drive improvements in overall risk-identification capabilities to ensure timely and effective issue resolution.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above, with strong content understanding; experience in strategy operations, content operations, or risk management preferred.
• Passionate user and/or creator of content products; frequent users of social or video platforms preferred.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and project-management skills; resilient, proactive, responsible, and able to identify key priorities and solve complex problems with a long-term mindset.

Preferred Qualifications

• Technical understanding of algorithms, model training, or data-driven systems.
• Prior experience in Trust & Safety, Content Moderation, Risk Operations, or Recommendation Systems, Recommendation Strategy is highly valued.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, policy, and operations to align on scalable solutions in a fast-paced, global environment.

Job Information

【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $ $202667 annually.

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Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

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Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

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The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

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For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

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Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

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1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;

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1. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and

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1. Exercising sound judgment.

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About TikTok

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and we also have offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

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Why Join Us

Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we work towards every day.

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We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.

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Diversity & Inclusion

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TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.

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TikTok Accommodation

TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us