Product Manager Leader (AI-driven Age Assurance) - Teen Experiences (San Jose)

Responsibilities
About the Team
The TikTok User Privacy & Responsibility Product division ensures that TikTok meets privacy, responsibility, and regulatory requirements while delivering exceptional user experiences for creating, consuming, and enjoying content on TikTok.

Responsibilities:
- Develop product vision, roadmap, and long-term strategy for TikTok’s age assurance ecosystem, building ML-driven foundations for consistent and age-appropriate experiences globally.
- Define quantitative goals and model-level metrics to evaluate and improve age estimation and risk detection systems.
- Partner closely with Algorithm, Data Science, Engineering, Trust & Safety, and Design to design, evaluate, and optimize ML-based age assurance components.
- Own the full product lifecycle from concept to launch and iteration, ensuring strong UX, technical robustness, and compliance across markets.
- Translate global regulatory requirements into scalable product and model strategies, incorporating governance, explainability, and auditability.
- Lead cross-functional execution and drive alignment on complex ML, policy, and user experience trade-offs.

Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or above with 5+ years of Product Management experience in Identity, Privacy, Trust & Safety, Risk, or ML/Algo-powered products.
- Strong understanding of machine learning fundamentals, including model evaluation, thresholding, and data-driven decision-making.
- Proven ability to collaborate with Algo/DS teams to interpret model performance and drive ML-informed product iterations.
- Experience translating regulatory or policy requirements into scalable product strategies.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders.

Preferred Qualifications
- Experience building or optimizing age assurance, identity verification, or youth safety systems.
- Familiarity with global age assurance and youth safety regulatory trends.
- Passion for digital well-being, youth safety, and responsible innovation, with a strong sense of ownership for user trust and platform integrity.

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


Job Information
【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $210000 - $576000 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.