Temporary Public Policy Data Science Jobs (NOW HIRING)

Responsibilities
The Cross-Issue and Product Policy (CIP) team's mission is to define the fundamental principles that guide policy work, ensuring policies are aligned and operable across issue areas and product surfaces. In this role, you will help develop a durable policy base for TikTok's global Trust & Safety ecosystem. You will lead and support strategic policy initiatives and priorities, including ensuring human rights are embedded in the policy development process and that we are effectively communicating our principles to external audiences through our Community Guidelines. You will partner closely with policy subject-matter experts, product teams, enforcement and operations partners, legal, public policy, data science, and other cross-functional stakeholders to ensure policy decisions are clear, consistent, implementable, and aligned with broader platform safety goals. This role is ideal for someone who combines principled thought, strong policy judgment, excellent writing, structured problem-solving, and the ability to bring clarity to ambiguous, fast-moving, cross-functional issues. Responsibilities: - Draft and refine policy materials so they are clear, consistent, defensible and operationally useful for downstream teams. - Support strategic cross-policy and product-policy initiatives, including work related to emerging harms, new product features, AI-generated content, human rights, spam, account integrity, appeals, and other high-priority policy areas. - Partner with policy subject-matter experts and product/XFN teams to translate complex safety, product, and societal issues into practical policy frameworks and decision logic. - Advise on policy alignment for new features, product launches, and cross-functional initiatives, ensuring risks, ownership, review paths, and launch-readiness considerations are clearly understood. - Develop and maintain foundational policy documentation, including policy principles, frameworks, taxonomies, glossaries, templates, and style guides. - Build reusable tools and self-serve resources that help policy and partner teams develop, update, and apply policy more consistently. - Provide structured feedback on policy drafts, enforcement guidance, and related materials to ensure they reflect policy intent and can be interpreted and implemented consistently. - Support leadership visibility into major cross-policy initiatives, unresolved decision points, and areas where policy fragmentation or governance ambiguity may create risk.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualification(s): - 5+ years of experience in Trust & Safety, platform policy, product policy, public policy, law, human rights, technology policy, academia, or a related field. - Excellent writing, editing, and executive communication skills, with the ability to turn complex and ambiguous topics into clear, structured, and actionable materials. - Strong policy judgment and the ability to reason across multiple issue areas, product contexts, stakeholder perspectives, and risk trade-offs. - Experience developing policy frameworks, principles, standards, guidance, or governance documentation. - Exceptional ability to work cross-functionally with partners such as product, legal, comms, operations, enforcement, public policy, and data science. - Self-starter with strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple workstreams in a fast-moving environment. Comfort working with ambiguity, emerging issues, and high-priority projects that require both speed and rigor. - Strong understanding of online safety, content policy, platform governance, social media, or technology policy issues. Preferred Qualification(s): - A degree in law, with experience working on cross-policy, product-policy, or governance initiatives in a global technology company. Experience drafting public-facing community guidelines is a plus. - Experience with Trust & Safety policy development, enforcement systems, escalation processes, or operational policy implementation. - Familiarity with one or more relevant issue areas, such as AI-generated content, spam, human rights, account integrity, appeals, civic integrity, or emerging product safety risks. - Experience advising product teams on safety, policy, governance, or launch-readiness considerations. - Strong analytical skills and ability to use qualitative and quantitative evidence to inform policy recommendations.
Job Information
[For Pay Transparency]Compensation Description (Annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $121600 - $272000 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.
Trust & Safety
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 recognises that keeping our platform safe for the TikTok communities is no ordinary job which can be both rewarding and psychologically demanding and emotionally taxing for some. This is why we are sharing the potential hazards, risks and implications in this unique line of work from the start, so our candidates are well informed before joining.
We are committed to the wellbeing of all our employees and promise to provide comprehensive and evidence-based programs, to promote and support physical and mental wellbeing throughout each employee's journey with us. We believe that wellbeing is a relationship and that everyone has a part to play, so we work in collaboration and consultation with our employees and across our functions in order to ensure a truly person-centred, innovative and integrated approach.
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
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