TikTok Shopping - Category Head - Home & Living

TikTok

Seattle, WA

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, Mountain View, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Mumbai, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul and Tokyo. The e-commerce industry has seen tremendous growth in recent years and has become a hotly contested space amongst leading Internet companies, and its future growth cannot be underestimated. With more than 1 billion loyal users globally, we believe TikTok is an ideal platform to deliver a brand new and better e-commerce experience to our users. We are looking for passionate and talented people to join our E-commerce operations team in US, to build an e-commerce ecosystem that is innovative, secure and intuitive for our users together. We aim to deliver high quality products together with a unique customer experience via TikTok. The role is responsible for building the category operation foundation for the TikTok eCommerce business in US. The job scope will mainly be building a strong team according to category operation logic, introducing high potential brands/merchants to TikTok e-commerce platform, and driving their growth with other teams & external partners in TikTok business. Responsibilities: • Design the overall home & living category growth strategy for the business - to define goals, identify opportunities and design approaches. • Build and develop a strong team according to the home & living category growth priorities and business rationale. • Acquire and incubate home & living brand principals, distributors and merchants to support category growth. • Discover innovative collaborative models that fit into merchants' short-term and long-term development plans, and invest platform resources effectively and efficiently. • Solve key challenges in business growth by strong collaboration with cross-function teams. •10+ years experience in e-commerce business; a mixed experience in both platform side and brand/merchant side is highly preferred. • 5+ years experiences in home & living categories. • 5+ years experiences as people manager, to manage a significant team size. • Excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills. • A good team player, fast learner and open to changes. • Attention to detail, affinity with numbers, logical and strong in problem solving. • Familiar with TikTok and other content platforms; experience in content-based e-commerce is highly preferred. • Strong connections with brands and distributors are preferred. 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 during our recruitment process. If you need assistance or 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.