Senior Product Designer - San Jose (Third-party Associate)

TikTok; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 103,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok is seeking a senior UX designer for its UED Monetization team to own end-to-end design of internal tools and platforms used by global employees, from problem framing to pixel-perfect UI.

You will collaborate with design, product and marketing, mentor junior designers, and contribute to design systems while addressing complex workflows and edge cases.

Qualifications

• Experienced in designing and shipping end-to-end products involving deep technical domains, complex flows, multiple scenarios, and edge cases.
• Empathize with and develop solutions for professional users, including Sales, Data Scientists, Client Success Engineers, and more.
• Ability to provide design variations and rational your design choices
• Ability to organize and communicate your thoughts and motivations with different audience
• A keen eye for visual UI details

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end design of internal tools and platforms that enable TikTok global employees to accomplish their goals efficiently and productively in a smooth manner.
• Own every aspect of a product’s design, from solving the core user challenge to shipping a well-tested and pixel-perfect UI
• Before designing anything, do everything possible to familiarize yourself with the core problem you’re trying to solve and all the user goals
• Create and test rough prototypes early in the design process to create confidence in a solution
• Design high-fidelity UI and UX specs to clearly communicate requirements to your team’s engineers
• Help make high-level strategic decisions with the rest of the product team
• Contribute your design thinking skills to other areas of the platform (Research, Marketing, product education, customer success, etc.)
• Mentor by heart, willing to support junior or mid-level designers

Skills

End-to-end design

Empathy for professionals

Design variations

Clear communication

Visual UI details

Mentor junior designers

Cross-functional collaboration

User research

Prototyping

Design thinking

Job description

Responsibilities

As the window of TikTok's business services, our TikTok UED Monetization team aims to enable clients to effortlessly connect with audiences and maximize brand potential. We want to ease and inspire clients to achieve their goals, explore more possibilities, and create value with TikTok. As a team member here, you will be able to utilize mixed methods to collect user feedback, create a deep understanding and empathy for our customers, and work cross-functionally with design, product, and marketing teams to meet business needs.

Responsibilities

As the window of TikTok's business services, our TikTok UED Monetization team aims to enable clients to effortlessly connect with audiences and maximize brand potential. We want to ease and inspire clients to achieve their goals, explore more possibilities, and create value with TikTok. As a team member here, you will be able to utilize mixed methods to collect user feedback, create a deep understanding and empathy for our customers, and work cross-functionally with design, product, and marketing teams to meet business needs.

Our core design team includes researchers, product designers, and UX writers who are passionate about quality, usability, and simplicity. We work with collaborative cross-functional teams to solve complex challenges and craft experiences that highlight our products’ unique capabilities and personalities.

In This Role, You Will

• Own the end-to-end design of internal tools and platforms that enable TikTok global employees to accomplish their goals efficiently and productively in a smooth manner.
• Own every aspect of a product’s design, from solving the core user challenge to shipping a well-tested and pixel-perfect UI
• Before designing anything, do everything possible to familiarize yourself with the core problem you’re trying to solve and all the user goals
• Create and test rough prototypes early in the design process to create confidence in a solution
• Design high-fidelity UI and UX specs to clearly communicate requirements to your team’s engineers
• Help make high-level strategic decisions with the rest of the product team
• Contribute your design thinking skills to other areas of the platform (Research, Marketing, product education, customer success, etc.)
• Mentor by heart, willing to support junior or mid-level designers

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Experienced in designing and shipping end-to-end products involving deep technical domains, complex flows, multiple scenarios, and edge cases.
• Proven ability to empathize with and develop solutions for professional users, including Sales, Data Scientists, Client Success Engineers, and more.
• Ability to provide design variations and rational your design choices
• Ability to organize and communicate your thoughts and motivations with different audience
• A keen eye for visual UI details

Preferred Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience in product design settings.
• Ability to think at a high level about product strategy and vision
• Self-motivated and able to efficiently run with a project without close supervision
• Willing to adapt and contribute to design system; Working closely with your engineers to build components that seamlessly fit into a larger component library/style guide
• Love to discuss design in group settings; participate in design critiques and reviews
• Experienced or interested in data visualization

Important Note: Please be advised that this job posting is on behalf of a third-party agency. This is a 6-month temporary assignment managed by a third-party agency, who will be your employer. While you may be assigned to work at TikTok, you will not be a TikTok employee. All contractual terms, including payroll and benefits, will be handled by a third-party agency. By applying, you agree that the information provided in your application may be processed and retained by TikTok for recruitment purposes and shared with a third-party agency in accordance with TikTok's Applicant Privacy Notice https://lifeattiktok.com/legal/privacy

As of the date of this posting, a good faith estimate of the hourly rate range for this position in the selected city is $75- $100

Placement in the range depends on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies, experience and location. Your benefits, if any, will be provided by your contracting vendor/agency.

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:

• 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

Job Information

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