Hiring: Head of Youth Safety & Well-being Policy - Trust and Safety Company: TikTok Location: San Francisco, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 14:43:42 About the job Experience: •5+ years of experience in Trust & Safety, Child Protection Policy, Public Policy, Law, Prevention Science, Social Work, or a related field with a meaningful focus on child or adolescent safety. Required Skills: •Own the global policy strategy for Youth Safety & Well-being — including CSAM, age-inappropriate content, and psychological and developmental harm. •Actively facilitate and support development of policy positions with the highest nexus to youth harms, ensuring TikTok's standards are clear, enforceable, and consistent with international child protection frameworks and legal obligations. •Support on youth-specific approaches to feature and product policy — including account defaults, recommendations, parental controls, and interaction features — ensuring product design reinforces safety policy intent. •Represent TikTok as a senior public-facing voice on youth safety policy — speaking at industry conferences, with media, and participating in external forums with child protection organizations, academic researchers, and civil society groups. •Partner with Policy Enforcement, Operations, and Product to develop and improve human and AI-driven moderation systems. Qualifications: •Demonstrated ability to lead and manage teams, set strategic direction, and deliver high-quality outputs in a fast-paced, global environment. •Comprehensive expertise in the harm landscape affecting youth online, including CSAM, harmful content, and the developmental risks specific to this age-group. •Operational familiarity with international child protection laws, child rights frameworks (e.g. UNCRC), and mandatory reporting obligations to bodies such as NCMEC. •Exceptional ability to synthesize complex child safety topics for senior executives, external stakeholders, and broad audiences. •Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, with experience working alongside product, technical, legal, and operational teams. •High technical aptitude and ability to navigate complex tools, systems, and emerging technologies as they apply to child safety detection and enforcement. •Content that this role interacts with includes images, video, and text related to every-day life, but it can also include (but is not limited to) bullying; hate speech; child safety; depictions of harm to self and others, and harm to animals. Hence, it is possible that this role will be exposed to harmful content on a daily basis. ​ •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.​ Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!