Join us as we inspire
creativity and bring joy to
millions of users worldwide.
Join us as we inspire
creativity and bring joy to
millions of users worldwide.
@2025 TikTok
Responsibilities
About the Team The Livestream Team designs and implements policies for live streaming to ensure a high-quality, diverse, and engaging content experience. We are responsible for building a secure and thriving real-time interaction space that benefits both users and creators. Our work involves establishing clear guidelines to minimize problematic content, identify emerging risks, and defend against bad-faith actors, all while maintaining transparency and defensibility in our policy decisions. Responsibilities: - Understanding of business models and risks: Understand the LIVE business model, evaluate existing and emerging risks generally on content safety and specifically to LIVE monetization and traffic ecosystem. Conduct regular reviews of existing policies to identify and address gaps and ambiguities. - Research expert: Pioneer and research on leading LLM ideals and practices in the industry and academic field. Leverage resources to help internal teams better understand major industry solutions. Identify the most feasible solutions for TikTok LIVE, and build up a defencible approach for internal and external communication. - AI driven governance: Have a strong mindset of AI-based moderation and human-based moderation. Drive TikTok LIVE monetization and ecosystem governance objectives leveraging both AI and human and collaborate efforts with algo, product and moderation efforts accordingly. - Safety prioritization: Lead LIVE safety efforts in the fast changing business, and identify strategic policy priorities amidst a rapidly changing technological and societal landscape. Create clear policy principles and frameworks that consider a variety of internal and external inputs. - XFN Collaboration: Work with cross-functional teams such as Communications, Public Policy, Legal, Product, Algo and Trust & Safety teams to clearly communicate product design decisions and product policies. Educate and align internal and stakeholders around our policies.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in Law, Public Policy, Business Administration, Liberal Arts or a related field. Advanced degree preferred. - More than 5 years of experience in LLM, safety, policy development, strategy, product policy roles or a related role in the tech/media space. - Strong understanding of LLM, legal, regulatory, and ethical issues related to online monetization, strong knowledge of the content, AI, digital media, and technology industry. - Exceptional analytical, good communication skills, able to draft policy in clear, actionable terms. - Adaptability to fast pace changes and possessing the ability to make sound judgement in complex situations, embrace challenges and achieve results - Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, to drive cross functional collaborations and high trust in culturally diverse environments to achieve shared results Preferred Qualifications: - Experience working with global stakeholders, including external partners - Ability to think creatively and develop new ideas to address challenges related to monetization governance. - Deep passion for TikTok, live streaming, mobile entertainment, social media, and popular culture.
Job Information
【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $125400 - $297920 annually.
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.
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).
The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:
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:
1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
3. Exercising sound judgment.
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.
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.
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.
Diversity & Inclusion
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.
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 at https://tinyurl.com/RA-request
