Tech Lead Manager - TikTok User Growth, Organic Acquisition - Seattle

Responsibilities

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 its offices include New York, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us
Creation is the core of TikTok's purpose. Our platform is built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make TikTok possible.
Together, we inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we all believe in and aim towards achieving every day.
To us, every challenge, no matter how difficult, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always.
At TikTok, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the communities we serve.
Join us.

TikTok's User Growth team leads growth initiatives for TikTok and all its platforms with a data-driven and results-focused engineering and product mindset. We are seeking talented individuals who enjoy the intersection of product, data, design, and engineering to help us reach the next milestone of billions of users.

In the Organic Acquisition, User Growth team, you'll have the opportunity to collaborate with external traffic platforms (e.g. Search Engine, major Social Media products, various third-party Websites and apps, etc.) to provide TikTok's high-quality content and services to them for brand impression and click conversion, thereby obtaining high-quality user traffic. You can lead technical directions such as content mining, content understanding, web UI presentation strategies, and design A/B testing frameworks to measure the contribution of these technologies to traffic acquisition. We encounter a diversity of technical challenges, allowing you to get a firsthand look at what technologies the most innovative organizations are using and be able to build up a bottom-up growth strategy from scratch. You'll be joining a full-stack team that can leverage all of TikTok's existing frameworks and be a part of designing and implementing new techniques and foundation work that can further improve user experience and showcase TikTok's user traffic growth value proposition.

As a Tech Lead Manager, you will:
• Lead and grow a business engineering team of 10+ backend and frontend engineers to build a solid foundation for user growth.
• Leverage data to understand our users and our content system in-depth, identify areas of opportunity and execute projects to drive user growth.
• Lead and develop large-scale software systems that power TikTok user acquisition strategies.
• Lead and improve system design and architecture to ensure high stability, performance, and reliability of the product.
• Collaborate with multiple cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality work in rapid product development.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
• Experienced in building services for large-scale consumer-facing applications, experienced in search and social media is preferred;
• Proficient in at least one of the following languages: Go, Python, Java, C++;
• Deep understanding of computer architectures, data structures, and algorithms;
• Excellent team communication and collaboration skills

Preferred Qualifications:
• 2 years experience leading a backend/ full-stack engineering team;
• BS/MS Degree in Computer Science or related major.

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 is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://shorturl.at/cdpT2

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Job Information

【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $212800 - $389500 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 restri