TikTok
Policy Manager, Search - Trust and Safety
New York, New York · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years.
About the job
Develop and oversee safety and editorial policies for TikTok Search, assessing risks in new features and guiding policy implementation and enforcement.
What you'll do
- Assess potential harms and safety risks for Search products and features, including through pre-launch impact assessments.
- Write and maintain policies for search indexing, ranking, and AI features; work with product and engineering teams to implement policy rules.
- Evaluate enforcement accuracy, false positives, and algorithmic bias, and serve as policy authority for high-stakes search escalations.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of experience in product policy, trust and safety, legal tech, regulatory compliance, or content moderation strategy at a technology company.
- Experience drafting or enforcing policies for Large Language Models (LLMs), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), or multimodal search systems.
- Ability to translate policy concepts into product requirements and lead complex cross-functional technical initiatives.
- Experience evaluating ambiguous trade-offs among free expression, user safety, and product quality; drafting formal policies and analyzing enforcement data.
Nice to have
- Understanding of search architecture, information retrieval, content ranking, or generative AI models.
- Familiarity with global internet governance, freedom of speech laws, and international human rights standards.
Tools
Large Language Models (LLMs), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), AI Overviews, Snippets, PRDs, ML
AI focus
Develop and maintain policies for Search AI features; address risks from Generative AI, LLMs, and multimodal search, and work with engineers to encode rules into ranking algorithms and automated moderation models.
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