TikTok Shop - Product Architect, Ecommerce Product

Responsibilities

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 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.

About

The e-commerce industry has seen tremendous growth in recent years and has become a hotly contested space amongst leading Internet companies, and its future growth cannot be underestimated. With millions of loyal users globally, we believe TikTok is an ideal platform to deliver a brand new and better e-commerce experience to our users. We aim to bring discovery, inspiration, and joy back to shopping by making TikTok the commerce channel of choice for merchants, creators, and affiliates.With millions of loyal users globally, we believe TikTok is an ideal platform to deliver a brand new and better e-commerce experience to our users. We are looking for passionate and talented people to join our product and operations team, to build an e-commerce ecosystem that is innovative, secure and intuitive for our users and brands.

About the team

The Global Commerce Product Team shapes the future of the TikTok commerce platform. We aim to become an all-in-one platform, for businesses, creators and users to trust each other, to create value for each other, to inspire creativity and bring joy to each other. Our long-term goal is to help businesses grow on our platform by enhancing our platform capability, nurturing best-in-class commercial content. This product architect will drive technical and product vision for TikTok Shop, building scalable solutions and driving results for the future of TikTok Shop.

Responsibilities
- Defining the strategy, vision and architecture for how Tiktok Shop Product supports global merchants and customers.
- Work with cross functional teams including product managers, researchers, content designers, DS, UG and engineers to contribute to high-level strategic decisions, envision and execute impactful product experiences globally.
- Communicate technology and product strategy effectively to all internal and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Provide technical architectural guidance and recommendations necessary for all ecommerce product.
- Create and deliver a technology roadmap supporting the ecommerce product organization, ensuring continuity and uniformity across all internal systems.
- Lead large scale projects from 0-1, managing uncertainty and ambiguity, ensuring we're shipping meaningful and quality experiences.
- Lead and design complex and large scale technical solutions for ecommerce initiatives for Sellers, Creators, Governance and Policy, etc product teams.
- Regularly give and receive feedback on product architectural designs and strategic product decisions.
- Act as a mentor and leader across the product team.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

- A minimum of 5 years' experience in software engineering.
- A minimum of 5 years' experience in product management.
- Deep understanding of current best practices and trends in software architecture and data infrastructure.
- Previous experience with writing high performance code for Frontend and Backend (JavaScript, React, Golang, Python, etc.)
- Strong understanding of end-to-end ecommerce ecosystem.
- Great communication skills to be able to articulate your concepts, vision and decision-making.
- Experience working with multiple stakeholders across the org.
- Ability to rapidly iterate and produce multiple product improvement suggestions.
- Experience with a/b testing and data driven practice.
- Results oriented and resilient. Ability to function within a startup culture which celebrates efficiency and driving impact.
- A passion and enthusiasm for TikTok and its community.

Preferred Qualifications

- Have had leadership experience supporting multiple businesses and product verticals
- Have global working experience and can drive projects and build influence in a global environment.

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