Product Design Leader, Effect House

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About
The Global Product & RD team is building up core TikTok products to ensure TikTok continues a healthy growth, deliver the best product experience to all of our users, build the most attractive features to help users enjoy their time on TikTok, earn trust in privacy protection, and more.
The Global Product team is growing exponentially. The business lines are ranging from Monetization Technology, Data, Machine Learning, System, Infrastructure, AR Effects, Security Technology and more.

About the team
TikTok UX team is responsible for the product design of the core TikTok app. Our key vertical ownership areas include Product Infrastructure, Social, Creation, Photo-Text and Design Systems. Providing professional design methods and practices, the team helps improve user experience and working efficiency of these products and areas.

Responsibilities
As the leader of the Effect House design team, you will:

• Lead tool design: Lead the design of a powerful AR tool for designers to create, publish, and share high-quality augmented effects for TikTok
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with product managers, researchers, content designers, and engineers to make high-level strategic decisions and execute impactful product experiences
• Business and User Understanding: Lead design from initial concept to implementation, balancing holistic and user-centric perspectives
• Design Leadership: Oversee design quality, establish norms and standards, and ensure efficient project completion with superior user experience
• Mentorship and Team Development: Act as a mentor, oversee talent acquisition and development, provide constructive feedback, and facilitate both project improvement and career growth
• Project Management: Lead large-scale projects from inception to completion, managing uncertainty and ensuring quality experiences
• Culture and Recruitment: Cultivate a workplace culture that reflects TikTok's values, recruit exceptional talent, and inspire creativity and joy in a global team

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of product design experience for web or tools, including a minimum of 2 years in a management capacity
• Experience leading design teams to work on large scale, complex, challenging projects
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, enabling successful collaboration with teams across the organization
• Commit to high-quality team output with keen attention to detail. Being able to continuously seek and contribute new impacts to business. - Proficiency in A/B testing and data-informed design methodologies
• Entrepreneurial, adaptable to rapid changes and less-than-ideal situations
• Open-minded, self-motivated, receptive to feedback, and patient

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of front-end programming
• Enthusiastic about TikTok and its community

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 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://shorturl.at/cdpT2

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Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $172000 - $337500 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:

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

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.