TikTok

Responsibilities

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok has global offices including Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Singapore, 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 Team

TikTok's Data Cycling Center Team is actively seeking a seasoned Data Scientist to fortify our data management and analytics capabilities. The candidate will play a pivotal role in steering data annotation management, bolstering data analytics support, and adeptly managing stakeholders across various business verticals. This role is vital in enhancing our data-driven initiatives and ensuring impeccable data quality, all while optimizing machine learning performance across all spectrums of the business.

About the Role

The Data Scientist will assume a hands-on and multi-faceted role within our international organization, navigating through complex data labeling processes and extensive stakeholder management to comprehend and address diverse needs. In this role, meticulous attention to detail, robust problem-solving abilities, and a proclivity for collaborative engagement with both technical and non-technical stakeholders are paramount. The Data Scientist will be pivotal in amplifying the efficacy of our data labeling processes, driving both strategic and operational advancements within the team.

Responsibilities

• Advanced Project Management: Direct and coordinate projects, orchestrating efforts across a large, interdisciplinary team of researchers, product managers, and data labelers, ensuring timely and efficient execution of tasks.
• Clarification and Simplification of Product Requirements: Diligently comprehend product needs, drive clear communication, and decompose technical tasks into more manageable units, ensuring a smooth execution path.
• Machine Learning Model Development: Conceptualize and develop advanced machine learning models aimed at optimizing the output of labelers, focusing on enhancing both speed and quality of the labeling process.
• Collaborative Experimentation and Documentation: Work in tandem with various teams to formulate meticulous experiment plans, documenting results with utmost precision, and patiently addressing inquiries from both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Qualifications

We seek a dynamic Data Scientist, blending robust technical expertise with keen business acumen, to navigate the intricate landscape of our advertising ecosystem. The ideal candidate should embody the following qualifications:

• Communication Mastery: Demonstrates exceptional written and spoken communication prowess, with a proven ability to effectively interface with business stakeholders and international teams, conveying complex, data-driven narratives in a clear and compelling manner.
• Strategic Interpersonal Skills: Displays formidable interpersonal skills, embodying an ability to seize new opportunities, be able to set product directions strategically, ignite innovative ideas, and marshal support to bring products from conceptualization to realization.
• Practical ML Solutions Development: Boasts significant, hands-on experience in crafting Machine Learning solutions that address real-world business challenges, paired with proficiency in ML fundamentals such as diverse algorithm paradigms (including supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning), evaluation methodologies, optimization techniques, and sampling strategies.
• Python Proficiency: Possesses intermediate-to-advanced skills in Python programming, showcasing the ability to develop and implement robust data science solutions.
• SQL and Data Modeling Expertise: Demonstrates intermediate-to-advanced proficiency in SQL, databases, and general data modeling, ensuring structured, efficient, and scalable data management, and leveraging data to inform strategic decision-making.

In this role, you will be pivotal in synergizing technical data science expertise with strategic business understanding, driving impactful contributions across our international, multifaceted organization.

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 tac.accommodations@tiktok.com