Product User Experience Lead, Global E-commerce

TikTok; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 208,000 - 336,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok in Seattle is seeking a Product User Experience Lead to drive UX research and optimization across the end-to-end transaction journey, including cart, checkout, payment, and fulfillment. You will own merchant experiences and logistics research, leveraging data and qualitative insights to guide product decisions.

The role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration, strong analytical skills, and ownership to improve the merchant and user experiences in a rapidly growing ecommerce ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Experience with commercial products is preferred.
• Experience in e-commerce product, engineering, quality, or data analytics roles is preferred.
• Strong business and data analysis skills, with the ability to break down conversion funnels and drive decisions.
• Strong judgment and decision‑making skills with ownership to drive cross‑functional problems.

Responsibilities

• Focus on user experience research and optimization across cart, checkout, payment, and fulfillment.
• Analyze merchant workflows across product management, order processing, marketing tools, data reporting, and settlement.
• Lead end-to-end logistics and fulfillment research including shipping, pickup, transportation, delivery, receipt, and exception handling.
• Design and execute user and merchant research (interviews, usability testing, log analysis, behavior analysis) and translate findings into product decisions.
• Collaborate in cross-functional reviews and raise the overall quality of experience research within the organization.

Skills

User research

Data analysis

Cross-functional

Merchant operations

Job description

Product User Experience Lead, Global E-commerce

Location:

Seattle

Employment Type:

Regular

Job Code:

A157586

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Responsibilities

• What You’ll Do:- Focus on user experience research and optimization across the end-to-end transaction journey, including cart, checkout, payment, and fulfillment. Identify key conversion points and continuously uncover experience issues and improvement opportunities through data analysis, user research, and an understanding of system architecture.
• - Focus on experience research and optimization across core merchant operations, including product management, order processing, marketing tools, data reporting, and settlement. Participate in merchant research and combine data analysis, business process mapping, and system architecture understanding to develop a deep understanding of merchants’ day-to-day workflows and efficiency needs, continuously identifying opportunities to improve the merchant experience.
• - Own user experience research and optimization across the end-to-end logistics and fulfillment journey, including shipping, pickup, transportation, delivery, receipt, and exception handling. Leverage data to identify critical experience pain points that lead to user anxiety, complaints, or churn.
• - Design and execute user and merchant research, including in-depth interviews, usability testing, log analysis, and user behavior analysis. Integrate qualitative and quantitative findings to generate actionable insights for product decisions, identify high-impact experience issues, and drive them from discovery through product prioritization and implementation.
• - Participate in cross-functional reviews of experience research initiatives across the organization. Continuously develop research methodologies and industry insights, contribute to team knowledge sharing, and raise the overall quality standard of experience research.

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications:- Experience with commercial products is preferred, including but not limited to merchant, logistics, payments, transaction, and product-related domains.
• - Experience in e-commerce product, engineering, quality, or data analytics roles is preferred. Hands‑on experience working closely with merchants or customers is a strong plus.
• - Strong business and data analysis skills, with the ability to break down conversion funnels, identify experience issues through data, and drive experience‑related decisions.
• - Strong judgment and decision‑making skills, with a high level of ownership and the ability to effectively drive multiple teams to solve complex cross‑functional problems.

Job Information

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $208050 - $335920 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:

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

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