Senior Product Manager, API Developer Platform

TikTok; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 186,000 - 374,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok is seeking a Senior Product Manager for the AI Developer Platform to own developer-facing platform products powering TikTok’s API and AI-native advertising ecosystem.

You will define and ship APIs, SDKs, CLI workflows, MCP tooling, and documentation while collaborating with engineering, product marketing, partnerships, and external technology partners to translate developer needs into a clear roadmap and scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in product management for developer/API platforms or SaaS.
• Experience owning APIs, SDKs, or developer tools.
• Strong technical fluency in APIs, authentication, webhooks, and integration patterns.
• Ability to translate needs into strategy, roadmaps, and measurable outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the product roadmap for AI developer platform capabilities across APIs, SDKs, CLI tooling, MCP integrations, agentic workflows, documentation, and developer experience.
• Partner with engineering to design and ship scalable developer-facing products, including API capabilities, authentication flows, tooling, schemas, validation, sandbox environments, observability, and integration support infrastructure.
• Deeply understand developers, technology partners, agencies, advertisers, and emerging AI agent ecosystems; translate needs into product requirements and platform priorities.
• Evaluate how AI-native workflows, MCP/tool-calling standards, agent frameworks, and tooling trends should influence TikTok’s API and platform strategy.
• Drive product discovery across external partners and internal teams, including opportunity sizing, competitive analysis, and developer feedback synthesis.

Skills

Product management

APIs

Developer platforms

AI products

SaaS platforms

Advertising tech

Tools

APIs

SDKs

Developer tools

Platform infrastructure

Job description

Responsibilities

About the team The TikTok Marketing API team is responsible for building and managing the foundational programmatic infrastructure for TikTok’s advertising ecosystem, while enabling next-generation AI-native marketing workflows. Our scope includes Marketing APIs, Organic APIs, Business Messaging APIs, developer platforms, SDKs, CLI tooling, MCP and agentic integrations, AI ecosystem enablement, and technology partner and agency co-development. We build the products and platform capabilities that allow developers, partners, agencies, and AI agents to programmatically create, manage, optimize, and scale advertising workflows on TikTok.

About the role As a Senior Product Manager, AI Developer Platform, you will own key developer-facing platform products that power TikTok’s API and AI-native advertising ecosystem. This role sits at the intersection of developer platforms, advertising technology, AI tooling, and partner ecosystems.

You will be responsible for defining and building products that help developers and partners integrate with TikTok more effectively, including APIs, SDKs, CLI workflows, MCP tooling, agentic enablement, documentation systems, developer experience improvements, and platform infrastructure. You will work closely with engineering, product, product marketing, developer relations, partnerships, sales, and external technology partners to identify developer pain points, define product requirements, and ship scalable platform capabilities.

This role is ideal for someone who can move fluidly between product strategy and technical detail: someone who understands developer needs, can reason about API design and integration patterns, has strong judgment on AI-native workflows, and can translate market and partner signals into a clear product roadmap.

Responsibilities:

• Define and own the product roadmap for AI developer platform capabilities across APIs, SDKs, CLI tooling, MCP integrations, agentic workflows, documentation, and developer experience.
• Partner closely with engineering to design and ship scalable developer-facing products, including API capabilities, authentication flows, tooling, schemas, validation systems, sandbox environments, observability, and integration support infrastructure.
• Deeply understand the needs of developers, technology partners, agencies, advertisers, and emerging AI agent ecosystems; translate those needs into clear product requirements and platform priorities.
• Evaluate how AI-native workflows, MCP/tool-calling standards, agent frameworks, and developer tooling trends should influence TikTok’s API and platform strategy.
• Drive product discovery across external partners and internal teams, including opportunity sizing, competitive analysis, workflow research, technical feasibility assessment, and developer feedback synthesis.
• Collaborate with partner-facing teams to identify integration pain points, product gaps, adoption blockers, and opportunities to make TikTok’s platform easier for developers and AI agents to use.
• Define success metrics for developer platform products, including adoption, integration quality, time to first successful call, developer satisfaction, API usage, feature adoption, error reduction, and partner business impact.
• Work across TikTok’s API surfaces, including Marketing APIs, Organic APIs, Business Messaging APIs, and emerging AI/agentic product capabilities.
• Align with senior leadership on product vision, platform priorities, investment tradeoffs, and long-term AI ecosystem strategy.
• Create clear product narratives, requirements documents, launch plans, and internal/external enablement materials to drive alignment and adoption.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5 years or more of product management or closely related experience in developer platforms, API products, SaaS platforms, advertising technology, AI products, or enterprise software.
• Experience owning technical products such as APIs, SDKs, developer tools, platform infrastructure, integrations, automation products, or workflow systems.
• Strong technical fluency with APIs, authentication, request/response structures, webhooks, integration patterns, developer workflows, and system interactions.
• Demonstrated ability to translate ambiguous developer, partner, or market needs into clear product strategy, requirements, roadmap priorities, and measurable outcomes.
• Strong analytical and business judgment; comfortable using data, metrics, developer feedback, partner insights, and market signals to make product decisions.
• Experience working cross-functionally with engineering, product marketing, partnerships, sales, developer relations, operations, and external technology partners.
• Ability to communicate complex technical and strategic topics clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience building or managing AI-native developer platforms, agent tooling, MCP servers/tools, AI workflow products, LLM-integrated applications, or developer tools for AI agents.
• Experience with advertising APIs, marketing technology platforms, commerce platforms, or partner ecosystem products.
• Familiarity with AI application stacks, including LLMs, tool calling, agents, MCP, RAG, evaluation, prompt/tool design, workflow orchestration, and AI-assisted developer experiences.
• Experience with developer experience products such as SDKs, CLIs, docs platforms, sandboxes, debugging tools, schema validation, sample apps, or integration testing frameworks.
• Experience working with external developers, agencies, technology partners, or enterprise customers on technical integrations.
• Strong product sense for platform design, including balancing flexibility, usability, reliability, scalability, governance, and ecosystem growth.

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

Job Information

【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $185600 - $374000 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:

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.