Product Risk Manager, Brand and Comms

About the Team

TikTok’s Product and Risk Communications team helps shape public understanding of how we keep our platform secure and our community protected. This team is responsible for managing our risk review process, ensuring we are working as part of the product development cycle to protect and enhance the safety of our platform. We also lead proactive communications around product integrity, safety innovations, regulatory readiness, and risk response.

About the Role

We’re looking for an experienced professional to help identify risks in the product development process, give strategic advice on mitigations, and support product launches. In this role, you’ll support our product risk review process that helps protect our platform, mitigate emerging risks, and build trust in the safety and integrity of our products. You’ll work cross-functionally across product, legal, and public policy to identify, mitigate, and manage risks in the product development phase. You should be a clear communicator, confident advisor in ambiguous situations, and able to translate complex safety, regulatory, or risk-related topics into clear and accessible feedback.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a strategic partner to internal teams on product risk issues, including providing strategic counsel to product teams in the development and review phase.
• Identify emerging areas of product risk and support product comms team in developing messaging to address them.
• Provide strategic counsel during product risk reviews and support rollout plans with product information.
• Support product communications teams to build and evolve TikTok’s narrative on product safety through messaging documents, newsroom posts, statements, Q&As, and spokesperson materials.
• Work with PR teams to support them with clear, consistent resources to address questions about TikTok’s product development and approach to product safety.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years of professional experience in tech, safety, or policy environments.
• Strong track record of translating complex or technical issues into clear risk analysis.
• Experience working with product, legal, and public policy teams on risk or incident-related matters.
• Strong analytical judgment, with the ability to assess reputational risk, provide feedback, and advise accordingly.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Thrives in dynamic, fast-changing environments with a proactive, solutions-oriented mindset.

About TikTok

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. 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 toward every day. We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make an 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.

Pay

The base salary range for this position is $108,000 - $151,200 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

• Day one access to 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).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.