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TikTok · 1 week ago

Model Policy Lead, Video Policy - Trust and Safety

San Jose, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$117K/yr - $270K/yr

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video, and they are seeking a Model Policy Lead for Short Video and Photo to oversee enforcement policies across ML classifiers and LLM-based moderation systems. This role involves leading a team to ensure accurate and consistent policy application in AI-driven moderation, collaborating with various teams to enhance enforcement strategies.

Content CreatorsContent DiscoveryMedia and EntertainmentSocial MediaVideo

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Lead a team of Policy Analysts responsible for model governance across ML classifiers and LLM-based AI moderation systems

Translate human moderation policies into model-readable logic - including Chain-of-Thought Decision Trees, labeling frameworks, and prompt design standards

Own model performance tracking through key enforcement metrics, and drive RCA cycles to identify and close quality gaps

Oversee policy alignment for large-scale classifiers and LLM moderation, ensuring enforcement consistency across hundreds of millions of daily content reviews

Build and maintain labeling systems for CoT-based AI models, including quality testing, iteration workflows, resource planning

Lead cross-system change management, ensuring that policy iterations are reflected consistently across human reviewers, classifiers, and AI models

Guide the development of next-bound SOTA models, defining policy goals, labelling requirements, and use-case applications

Partner with Engineering, Product, Ops, and Policy to align on enforcement strategy, rollout coordination, and long-term model enforcement and detection priorities

Qualification

Trust & Safety experienceML governanceAI/LLM systems knowledgePolicy developmentQuality metrics analysisTeam managementCross-functional collaborationJudgmentCuriositySelf-starterCommunicationProblem-solving

Required

Experience in Trust & Safety, ML governance, moderation systems, or related policy roles

You have experience in managing or mentoring small to medium-sized teams

You have a proven ability to lead complex programs with cross-functional stakeholders

You have a strong understanding of AI/LLM systems, including labeling pipelines, and CoT-based decision logic

You are comfortable working with quality metrics and enforcement diagnostics - including FP/FN tracking, RCAs, and precision-recall tradeoffs

You are a confident self-starter with excellent judgment, and can balance multiple trade-offs to develop principled, enforceable, and defensible policies and strategies

You have a bachelors or masters degree in artificial intelligence, public policy, politics, law, economics, behavioral sciences, or related fields

Preferred

Experience working in a start-up, or being part of new teams in established companies

Experience in prompt engineering

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) savings plan with company match

Paid parental leave

Short-term and long-term disability coverage

Life insurance

Wellbeing benefits

10 paid holidays per year

10 paid sick days per year

17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure)

Company

TikTok

Glassdoor3.4

TikTok is a short-form video entertainment app and social network platform. It is a sub-organization of ByteDance.

Founded in 2003

Los Angeles, California, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.tiktok.com

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