Global Ads Platform PM - API & Developer Experience

TikTok Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 32,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok Inc. is offering a project intern position focused on shaping the core advertising experience by working with Ads Platform and Interfaces teams.

You will translate business needs into actionable product requirements, support planning and execution for ads integration across APIs, SDKs, and developer tooling, and collaborate with engineering to deliver improvements for developers and partners. You will learn from a fast-paced environment, gain practical experience with programmatic

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Interest in product management, developer platforms, APIs, SDKs, integrations, automation products, or workflow systems.
• Able to intern for 12 weeks full-time during winter.

Responsibilities

• Translate business needs into clear, actionable product requirements. Partner with business and product stakeholders to clarify objectives, scope, and success criteria; develop PRDs; and align cross-functional teams and engineering on requirements, dependencies, and delivery milestones to keep execution on track.
• Support product planning and execution for ads integration and plugins capabilities across APIs, SDKs, developer tooling, documentation, sandbox environments, debugging workflows, and overall developer experience.
• Partner closely with engineering to design and launch developer-facing product improvements, including API capabilities, authentication flows, schemas, validation systems, testing tools, observability, and integration support infrastructure.
• Learn and synthesize the needs of developers, technology partners, agencies, advertisers, and internal teams; help translate those needs into clear product requirements and prioritized opportunities.
• Assist with product discovery and analysis across external partners and internal stakeholders, including workflow research, competitive analysis, technical feasibility assessment, and feedback synthesis.
• Collaborate with partner-facing teams to identify integration pain points, product gaps, adoption blockers, and opportunities to make TikTok's platform easier and more reliable for developers and partners to use.
• Help define and track success metrics for developer platform products, including API adoption, integration quality, developer satisfaction, documentation quality, tooling usage, and partner impact.
• Work across TikTok's API surfaces, including Marketing APIs, Organic APIs, Business Messaging APIs, and emerging automation-oriented or AI-enabled platform capabilities.
• Support cross-functional alignment on scoped product priorities, user needs, implementation tradeoffs, and launch readiness.
• Create clear product documents, requirements, analyses, and internal enablement materials to support team alignment and execution.

Skills

APIs

SDKs

Integrations

Automation

Workflow design

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related fields

Job description

TikTok Inc. is offering a project intern position focused on shaping the core advertising experience by working with Ads Platform and Interfaces teams.

You will translate business needs into actionable product requirements, support planning and execution for ads integration across APIs, SDKs, and developer tooling, and collaborate with engineering to deliver improvements for developers and partners. You will learn from a fast-paced environment, gain practical experience with programmatic