Organizational Effectiveness Graduate (RD Mid-Platform) - 2027 Start

Bytedance; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 76,000 - 128,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

401(k) company match

Paid parental leave

Paid time off

Job summary

ByteDance is hiring an Organizational Effectiveness Graduate (RD Mid-Platform) in San Jose for a 2027 start. You will support OE metrics, diagnostics, external benchmarking, and cross-functional initiatives within HR to drive organizational health and workforce efficiency.

The role requires a Bachelor's degree in HR, business, psychology, economics, or related fields, with hands-on data analysis using SQL, Python, or advanced Excel.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in HR, Business, Psychology, Economics or related field.
• Curiosity about people and organizations; dig into data relationships and root causes.
• Strong problem-solving and logical thinking with data-driven mindset.
• Experience with data analysis tools like SQL, Python, or advanced Excel preferred.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain OE metrics across recruiting quality, talent development, organizational health, and workforce efficiency.
• Conduct deep-dive analyses on key people and organizational issues; translate insights into actionable recommendations.
• Benchmark industry trends to identify practices for improvement.
• Partner with HRBPs, COEs, and business teams to drive initiatives across organizational design, workforce planning, and performance management.

Skills

SQL

Python

Advanced Excel

Education

Bachelor's degree in HR/Business/ psychology/economics

Job description

Organizational Effectiveness Graduate (RD Mid-Platform) - 2027 Start

Location: San Jose

Team: HR

Employment Type: Regular

Job Code: A204245B

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About The Team

The TikTok Research & Development (R&D) organization powers the innovation behind some of the company’s most critical products and technologies. Within R&D, our Security, Privacy, and Trust organizations are dedicated to safeguarding user data, ensuring regulatory compliance, and building robust, secure infrastructure globally. Our environment is highly collaborative, fast-paced, and innovation-driven, requiring leaders who can navigate ambiguity, scale high-performing organizations, and drive continuous transformation.We are looking for talented individuals to join our team. As a graduate, you will get opportunities to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and unlock limitless growth.Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by the end of the year.

Responsibilities

• Internal analytics & decision support: build and maintain OE metrics across recruiting quality, talent development, organizational health, and workforce efficiency to identify trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Organizational diagnostics: conduct deep-dive analyses on key people and organizational issues, identify root causes, and translate insights into actionable recommendations.
• External benchmarking: track industry trends and benchmark leading companies to identify relevant practices and improvement opportunities.
• Cross-functional OE initiatives: partner with HRBPs, COEs, and business teams to drive initiatives across organizational design, workforce planning, process optimization, and performance management.

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualification(s)- Individuals who are completing or have recently completed a Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Management, Psychology, Economics, Statistics or a related discipline.
• Genuine curiosity about people and organizations, you don't settle for surface-level numbers, but want to dig into the management logic behind the data.
• Fast learner with strong insight and logical thinking, able to deconstruct complex problems and form sound judgments.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, outcome-focused with a bias for delivering real business impact; self-driven and accountable.
• Preferred Qualification(s)- Hands-on experience with data analysis tools such as SQL, Python or advanced Excel.

Job Information

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $76000 - $128000 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.

Benefits

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

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

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:

• Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
• Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
• Exercising sound judgment.

About Us

Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok, Lemon8, CapCut and Pico as well as platforms specific to the China market, including Toutiao, Douyin, and Xigua, ByteDance has made it easier and more fun for people to connect with, consume, and create content.

Why Join ByteDance

Inspiring creativity is at the core of ByteDance's mission. Our innovative products are 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 enrich life - a mission we work towards every day.

As ByteDancers, 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. 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

ByteDance 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 ByteDance, our mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. 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.

Reasonable Accommodation

ByteDance 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