Tech Lead Manager - Mobile(iOS) - Short Video, User Growth
TikTokAbout the role
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 (e.g. TV, Lite, Web, etc.) 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.
You'll have the opportunity to build best-in-class onboarding experiences for our users as well as define A/B testing frameworks to measure and improve user retention rate. 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 value proposition.
As a Tech Lead Mobile Manager (iOS/Android) for the User Growth team, you will:
• Lead an engineering direction with a group of top level engineers, to achieve business impact by solving ambiguous product and engineering problems.
• Be an expert of a particular domain; create an execute the engineering roadmap to achieve incremental business impact.
• Leverage data to understand our users and our product in-depth, identify areas of opportunity and execute projects to drive user growth, retention, and/or engagement.
• Collaborate with design and product teams to create a world-class mobile experience.
• Analyse and optimize mobile applications for efficiency and performance.
• Promote robust and maintainable code, clear documentation, and deliver high-quality work on a tight schedule.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualification:
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent majors.
• Ability to design an engineering solution to solve ambiguous problems.
• Strong understanding of software development principles, capabilities, and limitations of iOS or Android platforms.
• Proficiency in Objective-C or Swift or Java or Kotlin.
• Ability to understand and debug large and complex code bases.
Preferred Qualifications:
• 5 years of working experience in native iOS or Android development.
• Passion and experience building consumer-facing products is a huge plus; We would love to hear about apps you've developed!
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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【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $224000 - $410000 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.
Our company benefits are designed to convey company culture and values, to create an efficient and inspiri
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