Senior Product Manager, AI Developer Platform

TikTok; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 176,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok is seeking a Senior Product Manager, AI Developer Platform to own developer-facing platform products powering TikTok’s API and AI-native advertising ecosystem. You will shape APIs, SDKs, CLI workflows, MCP tooling, agentic enablement, and developer experience across partnerships and internal teams.

You will translate market signals into a clear roadmap, balance flexibility and reliability at scale, and collaborate with engineering, product marketing, partnerships, and sales to drive

Qualifications

• 5+ years 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.

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.

Skills

Product management

APIs & SDKs

Technical fluency

Requirements to roadmap

Analytical judgment

Cross-functional collaboration

Clear communication

Job description

TikTok is seeking a Senior Product Manager, AI Developer Platform to own developer-facing platform products powering TikTok’s API and AI-native advertising ecosystem. You will shape APIs, SDKs, CLI workflows, MCP tooling, agentic enablement, and developer experience across partnerships and internal teams.

You will translate market signals into a clear roadmap, balance flexibility and reliability at scale, and collaborate with engineering, product marketing, partnerships, and sales to drive