Content Ecosystem Governance Intern

Job Description

Governance Strategy Intern, Product-Content Governance | TikTok

The Tone:
This is a temporary internship at TikTok, likely in-person in Los Angeles, CA, for Summer 2026. TikTok is a global platform known as the leading destination for short-form mobile video, with a mission to inspire creativity and bring joy. This role supports the company’s objective by contributing to the health and prosperity of the content ecosystem, ensuring a compliant, healthy, and high-quality environment for users and creators alike. It is critical for improving long-term Daily Active Users (DAU) by addressing content governance challenges.

The TL;DR
• Role: Internship
• Type: Temporary (12 weeks)
• Location: In-person, likely in Los Angeles, CA
• Pay: $25 hourly
• Team: Content Ecosystem team
• Mission: Participate in and improve the governance strategy for TikTok’s content ecosystem to maintain a compliant, healthy, and high-quality global content ecosystem.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Strategy Participation: Participate in developing and executing governance strategies for TikTok’s content ecosystem and creators, working to maintain a compliant, healthy, and high-quality global content environment.
• Process Design: Oversee the governance process for ecosystem issues, collaborating with identification teams to design recommendation strategies and governance links, specifically targeting risks like marketing accounts, low-quality accounts, and non-original content.
• Optimization & Implementation: Support the design and iteration of governance strategies and experiment plans, proposing optimization tactics based on content understanding and consumption data analysis, then collaborating with algorithm and product teams for execution.
• Health Monitoring: Mechanistically monitor the health of the content ecosystem, track the effectiveness of governance initiatives, compile case studies and data insights, and continuously strive to improve overall governance efficiency and outcomes.
• Project Follow-up: Track the progress and ensure timely implementation of cross-departmental projects to successfully achieve established governance objectives.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Currently pursuing an undergraduate or graduate degree.
• Experience: Able to commit to working for a 12-week period during Summer 2026, demonstrating an awareness of cross-departmental collaboration and project implementation.
• Skills: Clear logical thinking, strong communication and coordination abilities, results-orientation, proactive initiative, and a capacity for fast learning and adaptation to the internet industry’s pace.
• Bonus: A strong interest in TikTok and its global content ecosystem, a passion for content governance, a proactive problem-solving mindset, and an understanding of short-video/content platforms and creator ecology, including content norms, risky behaviors, and governance logic. Preferred majors include media, data, business analysis, and internet-related fields.