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TikTok

Los Angeles, CA

Why you should apply for a job with TikTok:

Employee well-being is supported via hybrid work, short-term counseling through our EAP and a premium subscription to Headspace.
We embrace diversity across all dimensions and provide employees with 9 employee resource groups globally, including our WOMEN ERG.
Comprehensive parental leave policy as well as fertility treatment through healthcare providers with a $20,000 lifetime maximum.

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Position summary

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok has global offices including Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Mumbai, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo. TikTok is seeking a full-time Lead designer to contribute to the design team with visual development, pipeline establishment, and avatar system. We are looking for a candidate with strong character development skills and avatar system experience. As a lead designer, you should possess a great eye for design, shape, and form for synthetic asset creation. The ideal candidate embraces challenge and growth, desires to learn new technologies, thrives in a team environment, and possesses a confident, passionate, self driven attitude. Responsibilities: - Lead and inspire a group of experienced artists including 2D, 3D and technical artists in solving complex design and artistic challenges, as well as working with leaders to define long-term design roadmap - Own concept development, asset creation, and animation production. Responsible for the final aesthetics for the avatar product - Enhance character motion by adding emphasis to key face shapes and body movements to achieve compelling and expressive character animations - Collaborate and communicate closely with cross-functional teams to establish common goals including visual development, product adaptability, and tech maturity - Work with R&D team to improve engine and pipeline to meet and exceed industry standards - 10 or more years of experience in feature films, video games, or other related fields developing & launching virtual humans, 3D characters or avatars system - Excellent at visual development and character design, with great knowledge of phases of digital human development, including ideation, modeling, rigging, animation, and rendering - Experience in managing a team in a dynamic environment across design, engineering and product disciplines - Proven track record of leading cross-functional collaboration efforts - Excellent communication and problem solving skills. Able to deliver feedback and provide direction to artists - Clear communication with cross-functional departments in a professional and positive manner 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 believe individuals shouldn't be disadvantaged because of their background or identity, but instead should be considered based on their strengths and experience. We are passionate about this and hope you are too. TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations during our recruitment process. If you need assistance or an accommodation, please reach out to us at [email protected]

What are TikTok perks and benefits

Lactation facilities

Fertility

Unconscious bias training

Networking

Succession planning

Diversity recruiting

Diversity performance

Short term disability

Paid paternity

Paid maternity

Paid adoptive

About the company

TikTok

Industry: Technology: Consumer Internet

As the leading destination for short-form mobile video, our platform helps people around the world become a part of a global community. In a world that feels more divided than ever, we are here to inspire creativity and bring joy. We do this by embracing change, thriving in ambiguity, and always looking for solutions.

Why you should apply for a job with TikTok:

Employee well-being is supported via hybrid work, short-term counseling through our EAP and a premium subscription to Headspace.
We embrace diversity across all dimensions and provide employees with 9 employee resource groups globally, including our WOMEN ERG.
Comprehensive parental leave policy as well as fertility treatment through healthcare providers with a $20,000 lifetime maximum.