Category Creator Management Project Intern (TikTok Shop - US Operation) - 2026 Start (BS/MS)

TikTok; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 32,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Housing allowance

Paid holidays

Job summary

TikTok is seeking a Category Creator Management Project Intern for the US Operation in Seattle. You will support category teams by connecting priority products with creators to boost discovery, content, and sales, while maintaining trackers and reporting for day-to-day operations.

This internship emphasizes data organization, cross-functional collaboration, and timely updates. You will learn tools and workflows in a fast-paced environment, with opportunities to contribute to campaign operations,

Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in an undergraduate program or higher.
• Strong interest in e-commerce, creator economy, and digital marketing.
• Comfortable organizing information into summaries and action items from data.
• Strong attention to detail in recurring reports and trackers.
• Clear written and verbal English communication.
• High ownership and ability to manage multiple workstreams.
• Willingness to learn new tools, workflows, and processes quickly.

Responsibilities

• Support category teams to connect priority products with creators to drive discovery, content, and sales.
• Maintain trackers for creators, products, merchants, campaigns, and reporting.
• Assist data processing and maintenance across recurring reports and dashboards.
• Organize creator pools, segmentation, outreach follow-up, and performance tracking.
• Coordinate operational details for creator campaigns and product sampling programs.
• Assist with campaign operations and brand activations, tracking participation and post-campaign reporting.
• Support cross-functional initiatives and track deliverables with internal partners.
• Prepare weekly summaries and progress updates for reviews.
• Help improve repeatable workflows and stakeholder updates.
• Use productivity and analytics tools to improve data organization and documentation.

Skills

Spreadsheets

Trackers

Dashboards

Data organization

Attention to detail

English communication

Ownership

Willingness to learn

Education

Undergraduate student or higher

Tools

Excel

BI dashboards

Data analysis tools

Productivity tools

Job description

Discover a career that energizes and excites you every day.

@2026 TikTok

Global Operations

Category Creator Management Project Intern (TikTok Shop - US Operation) - 2026 Start (BS/MS)

Location:

Seattle

Employment Type:

Intern

Job Code:

A98955

Responsibilities

• Support category teams in connecting priority products with suitable creators to help drive product discovery, content creation, and sales growth.
• Maintain and manage creator, product, merchant, campaign, and reporting trackers to support accurate day-to-day team operations.
• Support data processing and data maintenance across recurring reports, performance trackers, and business review materials.
• Help organize and manage creator pools, including creator segmentation, outreach follow-up, content progress tracking, and performance monitoring.
• Support ongoing creator campaigns and product sampling programs by coordinating operational details, tracking progress, and summarizing key blockers or opportunities.
• Assist with campaign operations and brand activations, including creator participation tracking, content readiness, incentive coordination, and post-campaign reporting.
• Support cross-functional initiatives and ongoing program operations by working with internal partners to track deliverables, follow up on open items, and maintain clear documentation.
• Prepare clear weekly summaries, campaign progress updates, performance notes, and action-oriented insights for team discussions and business reviews.
• Help improve repeatable workflows such as tracker maintenance, creator follow-up, reporting preparation, and stakeholder updates.
• Use productivity and analytical tools where appropriate to improve data organization, documentation quality, and operational efficiency.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Currently enrolled in an undergraduate academic program or higher.
• Strong interest in e-commerce, creator economy, affiliate marketing, marketplace operations, category management, or digital marketing.
• Comfortable working with spreadsheets, trackers, dashboards, and structured data; able to organize information into clear summaries and action items.
• Strong attention to detail, especially when maintaining recurring reports, campaign trackers, creator lists, and operational status updates.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills in English, with the ability to summarize business context, progress, blockers, and next steps.
• High ownership and follow-through; able to manage multiple workstreams, ask questions early, and drive tasks forward in a fast-changing environment.
• Willingness to learn new tools, workflows, and business processes quickly.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience in e-commerce, social commerce, creator marketing, influencer operations, affiliate marketing, marketplace operations, or business analytics.
• Experience with creator marketplace platforms, livestream commerce, paid media, campaign operations, or product sampling is a plus.
• Experience preparing business reports, weekly updates, campaign recaps, project trackers, or performance summaries.
• Familiarity with data analysis tools, business intelligence dashboards, or advanced spreadsheet workflows.
• Comfort using productivity tools for research, summarization, data organization, document drafting, or workflow automation.
• Cross-functional coordination and global team collaboration.

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Job Information

The hourly rate range for this position in the selected city is $23.75- $23.75.

Benefits

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Interns have day one access to health insurance, life insurance, wellbeing benefits and more. Interns also receive 10 paid holidays per year and paid sick time (56 hours if hired in first half of year, 40 if hired in second half of year). Interns who are not working 100% remote may also be eligible for housing allowance.

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;

2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and

3. Exercising sound judgment.

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 we also have offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us

Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we work towards every day.

We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an \"Always Day 1\" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.

Diversity & Inclusion

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 Accommodation

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://tinyurl.com/RA-request