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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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First seen Oct 28, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)