Senior Product Manager — AI Developer Platform & APIs

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 in California to own developer-facing platform products powering our API and AI-native advertising ecosystem.

You will define and ship APIs, SDKs, CLI workflows, MCP tooling, agentic enablement, and developer experiences, working with engineering, partnerships, sales, and product marketing to turn market signals into a scalable roadmap.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in product management or closely related role in developer platforms, API products, SaaS platforms, ad tech, 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.
• Ability to translate ambiguous developer, partner, or market needs into clear product strategy, requirements, roadmap priorities, and measurable outcomes.
• Strong analytical and business judgment; able to use data, metrics, developer feedback, partner insights, and market signals to guide decisions.
• Experience working cross-functionally with engineering, product marketing, partnerships, sales, developer relations, operations, and external tech partners.
• Ability to communicate complex technical topics clearly to 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.
• Collaborate 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.
• Understand developers, technology partners, agencies, advertisers, and AI agent ecosystems; translate into clear 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, workflow research, feasibility, and feedback synthesis.
• Work with partner-facing teams to identify integration pain points, gaps, blockers, and opportunities to ease developer use.
• Define success metrics for developer platform products, including adoption, integration quality, time to first call, developer satisfaction, API usage, feature adoption, error reduction, and partner impact.
• Collaborate across TikTok’s API surfaces (Marketing, Organic, Business Messaging, etc.) and emerging AI capabilities.
• Align with senior leadership on product vision, priorities, and long-term AI ecosystem strategy.
• Create clear product narratives, requirements docs, launch plans, and enablement materials.

Skills

Strong communication

Analytical thinking

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Technical fluency

Tools

APIs

SDKs

CLI tooling

MCP tooling

Documentation systems

Job description

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

You will define and ship APIs, SDKs, CLI workflows, MCP tooling, agentic enablement, and developer experiences, working with engineering, partnerships, sales, and product marketing to turn market signals into a scalable roadmap.