Tech Lead Manager - E-commerce Live Streaming & Traffic Ecosystem, Global E-commerce Content Recommendation

TikTok

4.5

(6)

Seattle, WA

Why you should apply for a job to TikTok:

  • 4.5/5 in overall job satisfaction
  • 4.5/5 in supportive management
  • 100% say women are treated fairly and equally to men
  • 100% would recommend this company to other women
  • 100% say the CEO supports gender diversity
  • Ratings are based on anonymous reviews by Fairygodboss members.
  • 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

    ess-impacting solutions. We are interested and excited about applying large scale machine learning to solve various real-world problems in E-commerce and recommendation.

    Responsibilities

    • Define and optimize the long-term value system for e-commerce live streaming by balancing short-term conversion with long-term retention and user experience.
    • Build user experience health models to guide traffic allocation toward high-quality, high-value content.
    • Develop negative interest and fatigue modeling mechanisms to identify user disinterest, content saturation, and exposure fatigue across multiple scenarios (live, short video, shelf).
    • Design dynamic decay and penalty mechanisms to personalize fatigue modeling and improve content diversity.
    • Model topic-level user affinity and long-term engagement through multi-task learning and long-term value optimization, promoting sustainable creator-user relationships.
    • Establish ecosystem health indices and data-driven governance loops for continuous optimization of traffic and supply dynamics.
    • Lead core ecosystem and user experience projects from problem definition to algorithm deployment and performance evaluation, collaborating closely with product, strategy, and operations teams.

    Qualifications

    Minimum Qualifications

    • Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or related fields.
    • Strong foundation in recommendation systems, with expertise in Ranking, Matching, Long-term Modeling, Multi-objective Learning, User Fatigue Modeling, Reinforcement Learning, or Lifelong Engagement.
    • Proficient in TensorFlow or PyTorch, with experience designing complex ranking or value optimization strategies.
    • Deep understanding of content commerce, live streaming ecosystems, and user behavior patterns.
    • Strong analytical and data sense with the ability to design metrics, conduct experiments, and perform attribution analysis.
    • Proven experience leading projects or teams, driving cross-functional alignment and end-to-end execution.

    Job Information

    [For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

    The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $198360 - $416100 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.

    Why you should apply for a job to TikTok:

  • 4.5/5 in overall job satisfaction
  • 4.5/5 in supportive management
  • 100% say women are treated fairly and equally to men
  • 100% would recommend this company to other women
  • 100% say the CEO supports gender diversity
  • Ratings are based on anonymous reviews by Fairygodboss members.
  • 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.