TikTok Shop - Product Manager Leader, 1P App Store Integration

TikTok Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 257,000 - 439,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits including medical, and

Dental and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Parental leave

Short-term and long-term disability

Life insurance

Wellbeing programs

Paid holidays (10)

Paid sick days (10)

Paid personal time (17 days)

Job summary

TikTok Inc. is seeking a senior product leader to drive the Open API Platform and partner ecosystem for 1P and 3P merchants. You will shape the product strategy, collaborate with global partners, and ensure scalable, secure integration tools across platforms.

You will own the end-to-end lifecycle from idea to launch, working with cross-functional teams to align features with business goals and marketplace needs. Strong leadership and data-driven decision making are essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years as a product manager responsible for end-to-end product lifecycle.
• Familiar with integration design for DTC platforms (Shopify, WooCommerce, SFCC).
• Experience designing or shaping seller tools or integration features.
• Strong product design, analytical reasoning, and business perspective.

Responsibilities

• Define long-term vision, architecture, and roadmap for partner ecosystem including Open APIs and developer portals.
• Lead collaboration with global DTC partners and manage 1P App strategies for merchandise/inventory/fulfillment sync.
• Oversee scalable integration tools and standards for 1P/3P partners while ensuring quality and security.
• Manage full product lifecycle from design to development, launch, and iterations.

Skills

Product management

Requirements gathering

Partner product design

Data analysis

Communication & collaboration

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Rithum

Zendesk

Yotpo

Job description

Responsibilities

About the team
Our Partner Product team is responsible for our Open API Platform and TikTok Shop's App Ecosystem for 1P and 3P partners. This team focuses on products that will empower partners to collaborate with the platform together, providing rich and diverse service capabilities to help merchants and creators to operate more effectively and efficiently. We are looking for a product leader who will be responsible for collection of users' requirements and partner product design to provide our target users/clients with effective product solutions.

• Define the long-term vision, product architecture, and roadmap for the partner ecosystem, including the development of our Open APIs, developer portals, App Store, and global seller integration frameworks.
• Drive the high-level collaboration with global DTC partners (Shopify, WooCommerce, etc.). Lead the strategy for 1P App, ensuring seamless synchronization of merchandise, inventory, and fulfillment across the global commerce landscape.
• Oversee the design of scalable integration tools and standards that allow 1P/3P partners to build on our platform while maintaining high quality and security standards.
• Ensure the complete product lifecycle management from design to development, launch, and subsequent iterations through collaboration with multiple departments.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• A minimum of 5 years' experience as a product manager, involved in the entire process of product initiation, design, development, promotion, and iteration.
• Familiar with the product functions and integration design of mainstream DTC platforms (such as Shopify, WooCommerce, SFCC, etc.) and third-party seller tools (such as Rithum, Zendesk, Yotpo, etc.), having engaged in integration product design or seller tool product design for related platforms.
• Possesses excellent product experience design capabilities, logical analysis skills, and data analysis skills, with a business perspective.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and project management skills, able to flexibly adjust strategies in complex environments and advance the smooth progress of projects.
• Experience managing, hiring, and building a team of product managers.
• Bachelors degree or equivalent years of experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiar with TikTok and mainstream e-commerce platforms, experience in content-based e-commerce is highly preferred.
• Masters Degree in Business Administration (MBA), Computer Science, Economics, or a related technical/business field is preferred.

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $256880 - $438900 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.