TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video, and they are seeking an AI Product Manager Intern for the 2026 summer program. The role involves driving content understanding and classification, improving AI-powered content detection systems, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to define product solutions.
Responsibilities
Drive content understanding and classification across TikTok’s global ecosystem, including moderation, labeling, and multilingual content comprehension
Improve the accuracy, scalability, and coverage of AI-powered content detection systems to ensure platform safety
Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Policy, Trust & Safety, Engineering, Data Science, Operations) to identify gaps and define product solutions
Translate business needs and regional requirements into clear product roadmaps and deliverables
Build core product capabilities such as multimodal understanding, data pipelines, and annotation tools
Define evaluation frameworks (e.g., precision, recall) and run experiments to continuously improve model performance
Qualification
Required
Able to commit to working for 12 weeks during Summer 2026
Currently pursuing an undergraduate or graduate degree
Interest in AI products, content ecosystems, or online safety
Data-driven mindset; comfortable defining metrics and using data to inform decisions
Strong communication skills and experience working cross-functionally
Preferred
Prior internship experience in AI/ML products, content platforms, or trust & safety domains
Familiarity with global markets or cross-cultural environments
Benefits
Day one access to health insurance
Life insurance
Wellbeing benefits
10 paid holidays per year
Paid sick time (56 hours if hired in first half of year, 40 if hired in second half of year)
Housing allowance
TikTok is a short-form video entertainment app and social network platform. It is a sub-organization of ByteDance.
