Product Designer (Design Engineering AI workflow) - TikTok

TikTok Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 76,000 - 151,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid parental leave

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Wellbeing benefits

Paid holidays

Paid sick days

Paid Personal Time

Job summary

TikTok Inc. is seeking a design leader to drive AI transformation within the UX team, turning the design system into AI-ready assets and developing tools that accelerate adoption across platforms.

You will collaborate with engineering to translate design standards into high-quality implementations, raising the overall app quality while scaling AI-enabled workflows for multiple devices.

Qualifications

• Open to candidates at any experience level; what matters is deep hands-on practice with AI coding tools, able to independently turn product and design ideas into high-fidelity, interactive demos that validate experience and feasibility
• Strong product and data sense; sharp design judgment, high aesthetic bar, and attention to experience detail; able to curate and elevate from large volumes of AI-generated output, turning the "ordinary" into the "extraordinary"; curiosity and drive to explore the unknown
• Able to identify and define problems in complex business and user contexts, propose well-judged solutions, and drive them to launch
• Strong communication and cross-team collaboration; optimistic, and effective in fast-changing environments
• Strong self-drive and learning loop; values reflection and retrospection, turning experience into reusable methods and insight

Responsibilities

• Drive AI transformation of the design system and workflow - Define how AI agents, skills, and tools apply in design.
• Turn the design system into an asset that AI can read, consume, and generate from.
• Explore AI-driven workflows from inspiration to prototype to delivery, unlocking new leverage for the team
• Build internal AI tools hands-on - Use AI coding tools fluently to independently develop and refine agents, skills, and design tools that accelerate AI adoption across the team
• Build a design system that scales for product and AI - Apply strong abstraction and innovation to keep the design system and its components scalable and maintainable as product needs evolve, and structured enough to meet the higher bar AI workflows demand
• Raise app-wide design quality - Apply industry-leading design craft to identify opportunities across business lines and drive holistic optimizations that continuously elevate the overall quality of the app
• Drive adoption of the design system and AI workflows - Abstract complex problems from business contexts and self-drive design solutions. Maintain clear documentation for the design system and AI workflows (including usage guidelines and best practices), and run training to drive cross-team adoption
• Partner with engineering across platforms - Work closely with engineers to translate design system standards and components into high-quality engineering implementations; bring cross-platform design capability to ensure consistency across every platform and device

Skills

AI tooling fluency

Product and data sense

Strong communication

Self-drive & learning

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

AI coding tools

Job description

Responsibilities

About the team TikTok UX team is responsible for the product design of the TikTok app. Our key vertical ownership areas include Core app Product Infrastructure, Social, Creation, and Design Systems. Providing professional design methods and practices, the team helps improve user experience and working efficiency of these products and areas.

• Drive AI transformation of the design system and workflow - Define how AI agents, skills, and tools apply in design. Turn the design system into an asset that AI can read, consume, and generate from. Explore AI-driven workflows from inspiration to prototype to delivery, unlocking new leverage for the team
• Build internal AI tools hands-on - Use AI coding tools fluently to independently develop and refine agents, skills, and design tools that accelerate AI adoption across the team
• Build a design system that scales for product and AI - Apply strong abstraction and innovation to keep the design system and its components scalable and maintainable as product needs evolve, and structured enough to meet the higher bar AI workflows demand
• Raise app-wide design quality - Apply industry-leading design craft to identify opportunities across business lines and drive holistic optimizations that continuously elevate the overall quality of the app
• Drive adoption of the design system and AI workflows - Abstract complex problems from business contexts and self-drive design solutions. Maintain clear documentation for the design system and AI workflows (including usage guidelines and best practices), and run training to drive cross-team adoption
• Partner with engineering across platforms - Work closely with engineers to translate design system standards and components into high-quality engineering implementations; bring cross-platform design capability to ensure consistency across every platform and device

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Open to candidates at any experience level; what matters is deep hands-on practice with AI coding tools, able to independently turn product and design ideas into high-fidelity, interactive demos that validate experience and feasibility
• Strong product and data sense; sharp design judgment, high aesthetic bar, and attention to experience detail; able to curate and elevate from large volumes of AI-generated output, turning the "ordinary" into the "extraordinary"; curiosity and drive to explore the unknown
• Able to identify and define problems in complex business and user contexts, propose well-judged solutions, and drive them to launch
• Strong communication and cross-team collaboration; optimistic, and effective in fast-changing environments
• Strong self-drive and learning loop; values reflection and retrospection, turning experience into reusable methods and insight

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience shipping social, creator, or content products at scale
• Side projects involving social, AI-driven, or generative experiences
• Hands-on coding background
• Passion for TikTok and creator communities

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $76000 - $151200 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 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.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

• 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.